Details for Financing Electricity Transmission Expansion in the West: A Report to Western Governors (Feb 2002)

The Transmission Finance Committee (TFC) has prepared this report exploring transmission financing issues raised in the earlier Conceptual Plans for Electricity Transmission in the West report. It recommends to the Governors several specific steps they can take to help ensure that justifiable expansion of the Western grid can be financed. In its consideration of transmission financing and cost recovery alternatives, there has emerged among the TFC members a broad consensus documented in this report.