Text Box: Price reciprocity means a transmission user would pay only one access fee (plus any applicable congestion costs) to transmit power from any location within one Western RTO to any location within any other Western RTO.

Price Reciprocity

1. Are the access fee proposals from RTO West, WestConnect and the California ISO sufficiently compatible to enable an inter-RTO agreement on price reciprocity? How will each RTO determine the amount of an access fee?

2. What would an agreement on price reciprocity between RTOs look like? How would money flow between RTOs? How would the flow of funds be calculated? How would the funds that are received from another RTO to be distributed?

3. What are the major obstacles to achieving price reciprocity?

4. Are export fees from each RTO the alternative to a price reciprocity agreement?

Background

Excerpt of Order 2000 on pancaking

Excerpt of Order 2000 on interregional coordination