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PCC Meeting — October 25, 2007PCC Meeting — October 25, 2007

PCC and TEPPC

Coordination of Roles and Responsibilities in Regional Planning

Brian Silverstein and

Robert Kondziolka


Meet Transmission Provider’s FERC Order 890 Planning Requirements

Address concerns of transmission developers

Address original TEPPC formation issues

Clearly delineate PCC and TEPPC responsibilities and coordination interfaces

Address the best way to manage the processes

Reason To Address


Transmission Projects and Path Rating Transmission Projects and Path Rating Increases Under ConsiderationIncreases Under Consideration

Palo Verde–Devers II

Green Path ProjectIV-San Felipe

Indian Hills - Upland

Sunrise Powerlink

En-ti (Ely-Harry Allen)

Harry Allen-Robinson Summit

Montana AlbertaTie Line

Frontier Project

Northern Lights

West Coast Cable

BC- Northern California Transmission

Juan de Fuca Cable

Path 66

Path 26

Path 75

Path 54

Path 27

Paths46 & 49

White Pine-Midpoint

Path 36

Lake ElsinoreAdvanced PSP

Trans-West ExpressProject

Navajo TransmissionProject Segment 1

Miracle Mile-Ault

SunZia

High Plain Express

Colorado-New MexicoInterconnection Project

TOT3 Expansion Project

Eastern Plains

Mountain States

PacifiCorp Xsm

Source: Robert Jenkins, June 2007


WECC Regional Planning WECC Regional Planning Process SequenceProcess Sequence

StagesStages Needs Needs FormationFormation Technical StudiesTechnical Studies LicensingLicensing ConstructionConstruction

Screening Screening StudiesStudies

Synchronized Synchronized Study Study PlanPlan

ProjectProjectPlanningPlanningReviewReview

Project Project Path Rating Path Rating

ReviewReview

ProgressProgressReportsReports

Regional Planning Regional Planning Guidelines AssessmentGuidelines Assessment

Phase 1Phase 1Proposed RatingProposed Rating

Phase 2Phase 2Planned RatingPlanned Rating

Phase 3Phase 3Accepted RatingAccepted Rating

Annual Reports Required Throughout Planning ProcessAnnual Reports Required Throughout Planning Process

Column Heading Notes:Needs = Examination of potential long-term transmission needs.Formation = Development of proposals of specific project proposals by sponsors.Technical Studies = Power flow and dynamic stability studies.Licensing = Project sponsor activities to obtain rights-of-way, certificates of purpose and necessity, etc.Construction= Building of foundations, towers, conductor, substations, etc.

Presented by Steve Walton at FERC Order 890 Technical Conference on Attachment K in Denver on October 23, 2007


January 17, 2006 White Paper

“Communication links should also be formed between TEPPC and L&R Subcommittee to avoid possible duplication of effort and to avoid divergent models and assumptions.”

“TEPPC should focus on economic screening studies for resource and transmission expansion alternatives that have broad, regional implications.”

“PCC should address issues from project inception to in-service.”


January 17, 2006 White Paper

“Consideration should be given to integrating the TEPPC process and WECC current regional planning process. This would involve moving the oversight of the Regional Planning Project Review phase of the PCC process over to TEPPC to avoid duplication.”


Provide guidance and leadership to the expansion planning process and ensure that the process is conducted in an open stakeholder forum, is impartial, transparent, properly executed and well communicated.

Ensure that appropriate regional experts and stakeholders participate in the expansion planning process.

Identify, develop and seek consensus on a process for high-level coordination of economic transmission expansion planning in the West, and successfully implement this process.

TEPPC Function 2 Objectives


Ensure development and maintenance of a catalog of potential transmission projects that span multiple states, provinces or sub-regions in the Western Interconnection that may be, on a screening study basis, economically viable and may merit further consideration by sub-regional groups, policy makers and the WECC members.

Ensure the analysis of demand-side resources and other non-wires solutions to congestion problems is represented along with the analysis of transmission solutions.

TEPPC Function 3 Objectives


PCC Regional Planning GuidelinesPCC Regional Planning Guidelines

1. Take multiple project needs and plans into account, including identified utilities' and nonutilities‘ future needs, environmental and other stakeholder interests;

2. Cooperate with others to look beyond specific end points of the sponsors' project to identify broader regional and subregional needs or opportunities;

3. Address the efficient use of transmission corridors (e.g., rights-of-ways, new projects, optimal line voltage, upgrades, etc.);

4. Identify and show how the project improves efficient use of, or impacts existing and planned resources of the region (e.g., benefits and impacts, transmission constraint mitigation);

5. Cooperate with Regional Planning Review Group members in determining the benefits and impacts due to the project;

6. Identify transmission physical and operational constraints resulting from the project or that are removed by the project;


PCC Regional Planning GuidelinesPCC Regional Planning Guidelines

7. Coordinate project plans with and seek input from all interested members, subregional planning groups, power pools, and region-wide planning group(s);

8. Coordinate project plans with and seek input from other stakeholders including utilities, independent power producers, environmental and land use groups, regulators, and other stakeholders that may have an interest;

9. Review the possibility of using the existing system, upgrades or reasonable alternatives to the project to meet the need (including non-transmission alternatives where appropriate);

10. Indicate that the sponsor’s evaluation of the project has takent into account costs and benefits of the project compared with reasonable alternatives;

11. Coordinate with potentially parallel or competing projects and consolidate projects where practicable.


Identify coordination and handoff issues between TEPPC and PCC.

Modify the document to include the TEPPC role so the process describes a single integrated process of Regional Planning including sub-regional planning activity.

Ensure that the Regional Planning Guidelines are followed and review is completed in a timely manner.

Evaluate whether the Project Planning Review activity would fit better under TEPPC’s administration or whether it should remain with PCC. This will be addressed in the Strategic Planning process.

Modify the existing Regional Planning document (Project Planning Review) to include the TEPPC role

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