-- Final Transmission report --
Excerpt from the WGA Policy Resolution: Clean and Diversified Energy Iniative for the West
“Western Governors will examine the feasibility of and actions that would be needed to: …meet the West’s generation and transmission needs over the next 25 years. Deliverability of energy resources will be examined, including an assessment of promising new resources and technologies... In addition, the project shall examine the obstacles to both intrastate and interstate transmission siting and construction in order to access clean energy resources.”
Charge to the Transmission Task Force
- The Clean and Diversified Energy Advisory Committee will provide the Transmission Task Force with appropriate assumptions about the type and location of future generation to be used in the analysis of transmission needs. This will be done by December 15, 2005.
- Modeling of transmission needs in the Western Interconnection portion of the WGA region will be done using an interconnection-wide model. See map below.
- The assessment of transmission needs in the ERCOT portion of the WGA region will be arranged by the State of Texas.
- The assessment of transmission needs in Alaska and Hawaii will be organized by those states.
- The Task Force needs to determine how to conduct the assessment of transmission needs in the portion of the WGA region that is located in the Eastern Interconnection.
- The Task Force will examine the economic feasibility of transmission between the interconnections.
- The Task Force will consider the applicability and cost of new transmission technologies.
- The Task Force will identify potential obstacles to both intrastate and interstate transmission siting and construction and recommend policies to overcome such obstacles, including cost allocation and cost recovery for transmission expansion.
- The task force will consider the effect of distributed generation and energy efficiency in reducing the need for new transmission.
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