1. What is the status of the congestion management model development in each RTO?
2. What is the FERC filing status of the RTO’s congestion management models?
3. If the congestion management models have not been fully developed, how are the RTOs addressing the resolution of congestion management seams issues?
4. Are the three RTOs developing a single congestion management model for the West or three individual models? What is the nature of the congestion management model(s) being proposed by each RTO. Are the RTOs leaning towards a physical rights, a financial rights, or a hybrid type of model? What are the relative weights in your decision-making of 1) intra-RTO stakeholder agreement and 2) west-wide seamlessness?
5. Are FTRs [firm transmission rights] required to be able to schedule with the RTO? How is congestion proposed to be managed at the seams?
6. If there are three individual RTO models, from the standpoint of the transmission customer, will there be seamless interaction at the RTO boundaries? How will this be accomplished? What is your definition of “seamless interaction”? Where does your goal lie on the scale between 1) no fatal inconsistencies and 2) one-stop shopping?
7. What incentives will be provided to relieve congestion? What incentives will be applicable to new transmission construction? What incentives will be applicable to non-transmission alternatives?
8. How are existing rights and obligations handled in each RTO?
9. Does the congestion management approach eliminate rate pancaking?
Excerpt from Order 2000
Draft WMIC Seams Issues paper (Priority 2)
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