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Other
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Tuesday,
April 17, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Cactus
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WIEB/CREPC
Workshop on Regulatory Electricity Pricing Options |
Tuesday,
April 17, 2:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Cactus
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Ad
hoc meeting of CREPC members interested in exploring price mitigation
ideas (tentative) |
Tuesday,
April 17, 7:00 p.m. Cactus
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Monday,
April 16, 1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Tuesday,
April 17, 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Cactus
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WRTA
Board of Directors |
Tuesday,
April 17, 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
Committee
on Regional Electric Power Cooperation
Hotel provided breakfast
8:30
a.m.
Call to order
Report of the Chair
9:00
a.m.
Electricity outlook
What’s the supply/demand balance this summer and for the remainder of
the year? What are the major
uncertainties and their probability of occurring?
What are the differences between the forecasts/assessments?
What’s the role of economic and political considerations in the
forecasts/assessments?
Presentations
Northwest
Power Planning Council – Dick Watson
2001-02
Power Supply Outlook and Implications (25 pages, Powerpoint)
Northwest
Electricity Markets in 2001: Status and Proposed Actions, (1 page HTML with
link; priority 1)
Link
to full report (HTML link; full report is in Word; priority 1)
California Energy Commission – Bill Keese
California
Electricity Issues (9 pages; Powerpoint)
California ISO – Terry Winter
(CA
ISO 2001 Summer Assessment (40 pages; priority 2); Presentation
to the ISO Board, March 30 (4 pages); priority 1)
Western Systems Coordinating Council – Dennis Eyre
WSCC
Summer Assessment (21 pages; PDF file; Priority 1))
Response panel: Mark Maher (BPA),
Don Furman (PacifiCorp), others
10:30
a.m.
Break
10:45
a.m.
Reliability
1. Performance under the Reliability Management System
Frequency and type of violations of standards
over the past six months. Differences
in violations between parties that have signed the RMS contracts and those that
have not signed. Effect of the
violations on the integrity of the western grid.
WSCC – Bob Dintelman
WSCC
Reliability Management System (RMS) Update (45 pages; Powerpoint)
State/provincial requests for information on
violations
2. Revision
of reserve criterion – Ed Eakeley (TriState G&T)
Report on WSCC’s reevaluation of the reserve
requirement
12:00
p.m.
Luncheon
1:15
p.m.
Western Electricity Coordinating Council (aka WIO)
Status of FERC/DOJ filings, bylaws, and merger
agreement. Remaining glitches.
Selection of non-affiliated members of the board. Selection of state/provincial representatives.
Organizational meeting.
Ron Nunnally, Chairman,
Western Interconnection Coordination Forum
WECC
Formation Progress Report (12 pages; Powerpoint)
2:30
p.m.
Break
2:45
p.m.
RTOs
Status of RTO-West, DSTAR and California ISO.
FERC directions, if any, in response to filings.
Problematic areas. Next
steps.
Bill Longenecker, FERC
RTO West – Mark Maher, BPA (Powerpoint
presentation, priority 1) / Don Furman
(RTO West web site link; priority 3)
Desert STAR – Mike Raezer, Desert
STAR (8 pages; Powerpoint) / Ed Beck, TEP, Desert
STAR RTO Pricing Proposal (7 pages; Powerpoint); (DSTAR
web site link, priority 3)
California
ISO – Terry Winter (California ISO web site
link, priority 3)
Report
of the CREPC Transmission Pricing Work Group–Larry Nordell
(MT)
RTO
West Congestion Management and Pricing Model (4 pages, PDF, priority 1)
4:00
p.m.
Resolution of issues at the boundaries of RTOs (seams issues)
Wally Gibson (NWPPC), Resolving
RTO Seams Issues in the West (7 pages; PowerPoint; Priority 1)
4:15
p.m.
Demand exchange tariffs
Which customers qualify?
How does it operate? How
many megawatts? What is the price
paid customers? Downsides of
tariffs? Lessons leaned? Why have
some utilities not adopted demand exchange tariffs?
Suggested next steps?
Panel discussion:
Chuck Goldman, Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory, Demand Response Programs: An Emerging Resources for
Competitive Electricity Markets (19 pages; Powerpoint)
John Hairston, BPA (21 pages, Powerpoint
presentation, priority 1)
Don Fuller, California ISO, Summer
2001 Demand Response Programs (8 pages; Powerpoint)
Ric Gale, Idaho Power Company, Demand
Side Programs (9 pages; PowerPoint); (Bill
Eastlake’s summary table, PDF)
Curtis Kebler, Reliant Energy (Reliant’s
proposal to WSCC (4 pages, PDF, priority 1)
Background information:
Washington
UTC comments on FERC March 14 order relating to customer sales of load
reductions (HTML link; priority 3)
5:30
p.m.
Recess
Hotel provided breakfast
8:00
a.m.
Better price signals to consumers – Dick Hemstad (WA UTC)
Real-time pricing – Mike Jaske (CEC)
California
Presentation on Real Time Pricing (12 pages; Powerpoint)
Frequently
Asked Questions About Implementing Real-Time Pricing in California for Summer
2001 by Severin Borenstein, March 2001 (10 pages; PDF; priority 2)
Time of use pricing – Gary Swofford, Puget Sound Energy
Rate design – Rich Collins (UT PSC)
California actions – Steve Weissman (CA PUC)
Alberta
experience – Larry Charach (AB Resources) (Powerpoint; priority 1;
extremely large file)
Actions by other states/provinces
Background information
Impact
of Retail Rate Deregulation on Electricity Consumption in San Diego (42
pages; PDF; priority 3)
9:15
a.m.
Electricity-Environmental Linkages – Bob Anderson (MT PSC) / Bill
Keese (CEC)
A
roundtable of state/provincial reports on actions to expedite the permitting
powerplants and the environmental impacts of responses to the electricity crisis
(e.g., increased emissions from backup generation and temporary generation,
actions compromising fish recovery).
Bob Anderson (MT PSC) ,
Electricity/Environmental Linkages in the 2001 Montana Legislature, (11
pages; Powerpoint)
Background
information
Washington State siting decisions – Sumas2,(64
pages; PDF; priority 3), Challis
(45 pages; PDF; priority 3)
California
Energy Commission’s updated database on proposed generation in the Western
Interconnection - Please email Denny Brown
[Dbrown@energy.state.ca.us]
additions and corrections for proposed projects in your state/province
Nancy Sutley, California EPA
10:30
a.m.
Break
10:45
a.m.
Discussion of region-wide database on future demand, generation,
transmission
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Adequacy
of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council loads/resources forecasting and
regional transmission planning processes
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How to
build on forecasts/databases of the CEC and NWPPC
Western
Energy Information Repository (6 pages; Powerpoint)
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WSCC
Board of Trustees Policy on access to the EHV database, adopted April 3,
2000 (1 page; HTML; priority 1)
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Energy
Information Administration’s proposal on confidentiality of powerplant data
– Phil Carver (OR OE)/ Steve Weissman (CA PUC) (EIA
notice, 3 pages, PDF; EIA
notice, 3 pages, PDF; priority 3)
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Proposed
CREPC comments to EIA (5 pages, PDF, priority 1)
Report
on potential Governors’ transmission summit
12:00
p.m.
Lunch – on your own
1:15
p.m.
Roundtable on (1) short-term state/provincial/utility efficiency
programs and stable program funding; (2) actions to remove barriers to
distributed generation; (3) status of executing long-term contracts in
California (and elsewhere)
[States/provinces need to come prepared with
handouts (60 copies) or have e-mailed information to staff (dlarson@westgov.org)
that will be posted on the WIEB web site in advance of the meeting.]
2:45
p.m.
Report of the CREPC Western Interconnection Wind Evaluation Team
– Roger Hamilton (OR PUC), Team Chairman
Briefing
on Team activities (6 pages; PDF; priority 3)
Report
on generation tracking –
Phil Carver (OR OE) California/Oregon/Washington
proposal to DOE (2 pages; PDF; priority 2)
Western
Interconnection “green tags” –
Mike Winslow, PacifiCorp (Developing
a Western Regional Green Tag Market (12 pages; Powerpoint)
3:30
p.m.
Business meeting
Appointments
(1 page; HTML; priority 1)
Identification of candidates for the state/provincial members of the
Board of Directors of the WECC
Filling
any vacancies on CREPC appointments to organizations
Recap
of actions to be taken in response to the Governors’ recommendations (assignments, report to the governors)
Recommendations
from February 2 Governors’ Energy Policy Roundtable (HTML link, priority
2)
Discussion
of potential emergency CREPC meeting
4:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Workshop on the Short-term Natural Gas Outlook
1:00
p.m.-2:30 p.m.
April
17, 2001
Purpose:
The purpose of the workshop is to gain a better
understanding of the short-term (2001) outlook for natural gas supplies in the
Western Interconnection.
Short-term assessments:
Thom
Kelly, California Energy Commission
Dick
Watson, Northwest Power Planning Council
Dave
Warren, Washington Office of Trade and Economic Development (30 Powerpoint
slides; priority 1)
Phil
Carver, Oregon
Energy Office (Excel file, priority 1)
Discussion of where
additional analysis may be required.
Workshop
on Regulatory Electricity Pricing Options
2:45
p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
April
17, 2001
Purpose:
The purpose of the workshop is to provide an educational forum for
state/provincial utility commissions and energy policy advisors to understand
the fundamentals of price caps, the types of price caps that can be used, the
consequences of the price caps to suppliers and consumers, any unintended
consequences associated with price caps, and alternatives to price caps that
could be explored within the western interconnection.
Price
Caps Tutorial (1 hour)
Jim Bushnell, UC Berkeley Energy Institute
What are the different types of
price caps and exactly how would they work? (hard price caps, soft price caps,
cost plus price caps, temporary price caps, other)
Who administers the price caps and
how are they administered? (Who is the responsible entity? What is the
compliance mechanism? What is the audit mechanism? What is the role for state utility commissions?
Who administers the caps for those that are not state jurisdictional?
Who administers the caps for those that are not FERC jurisdictional? How
long are the caps in place? How do you determine to end price caps and what
happens after they are lifted?)
Who is affected by the price caps
and how? (the energy consumers, the energy suppliers, the current utilities,
state regulatory commissions, the effects in a restructured and non-restructured
retail environment; How do they impact consumers and suppliers in Canada?)
How are scare supplies allocated
if prices are not allowed to clear the market? Who makes the allocation
decisions? What is the state role in the allocation decision?
Are there any unintended
consequences associated with any of the price cap proposals?
What other alternatives are there
to regional price caps?
The
Pros and Cons of Price Caps (1
hour, 45 minutes)
The
panelists will address the different price cap proposals for their respective
interests. These panelists
would focus on how the price caps would affect their industry or consumers, what
unintended consequences the price cap might have for their interests, and what
alternatives there are to price caps that would be better from their
perspective. There might be
specific questions developed for particular industry or consumer interests.
Discussants
Jim Harding, Seattle City Light
Eric Hildebrandt, California
ISO
Bill Chamberlain, California Energy Commission (8 pages; presentation,
PDF, priority 1; CEC
comments to FERC; 9 pages; PDF; priority 2)
Dave Warren, Washington State Office of Trade and Economic Development
Doug Little, Powerex
Roger Petersen, PPL Montana
Curtis Kebler, Reliant Energy
Background:
January 12 five
governor letter to Governors Davis (1 page, HTML, priority 3)
February 6 eight
governor letter to Secretary Abraham (1 page, HTML, priority 3)
Electricity
Restructuring: Deregulation or
Reregulation (19 pages, PDF, priority 3)
The Trouble
with Electricity Markets (and some solutions) (29 pages, PDF, priority 3)
Why
Price Controls Won’t Work in California, A White Paper Prepared by Dynegy,
Inc. (14 pages, PDF, priority 3)
Solving
California’s Problem, Dynegy (2 pages, PDF, priority 3)