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Agenda for
the |
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Crowne Plaza Hotel |
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San Jose, California |
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April 19 - 21, 2005 |
casual attire (no ties) |
| Schedule of Meetings |
| Monday April 18, 2005 |
Tuesday April 19, 2005 |
Wednesday April 20, 2005 |
Thursday April 21, 2005 |
| 12:00
noon Luncheon 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
7:30
a.m. - 3:30 p.m. WIEB meeting 1:00
p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 3:45
p.m. - Bus leaves for 6:00 p.m. -
7:30 p.m. |
7:30
a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CREPC meeting |
7:30
a.m. - 2:00 p.m. CREPC meeting |
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| 1:00 p.m. | Joint WIEB/CREPC Workshop on Western Natural Gas Assessment |
| Workshop presentations can be found at the following URL: | |
| http://www.energy.ca.gov/naturalgas/documents/2005-04-19_WIEB_workshop/ | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Adjourn workshop |
| 3:45 p.m. | Bus leaves for tour of Metcalf Energy Center |
| Bus will pick up participants at front door of hotel lobby. | |
| Dress code: wear business slacks (no jeans, dresses or shorts) and flat shoes (no high heels or open toed shoes). | |
| Bring a jacket or sweater, it can be breezy. Calpine will supply a hard hat and safety glasses. | |
| Bus will return you to the site of the reception. | |
| 6:00
p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
Reception at Calpine Headquarters |
| Reception is at the Capital Club Library Room on the 17th Floor of the Knight-Ridder building, 50 West San Fernando St., San Jose, 95113. | |
| It is a 10-minute walk from the Crowne Plaza Hotel, going east toward the park. | |
| Attire at the Capital Club is business casual: no jeans, shorts or t-shirts allowed. |
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Wednesday, April 20, 2004 |
| 7:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation |
| Report by the Chair - Marsha Smith (ID) | |
| Update from DOE - Julia Souder (D.C.) | |
| The Western Interconnection: Unfinished Business (02-05) | |
| Recommendation
on Financing State/Provincial Participation in Regional Electricity Activities (11-16-04) |
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| Report to Western Governors on an Enhanced Electricity Function (06-04) | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Western gas/electric interface issues |
| · Dave Maul (CA), Manager of the WIEB/CEC natural gas assessment | |
| CREPC presentation | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Western Assessment Group : Western Interconnection issue identification and options |
| · Views on need for action | |
| * Syd Berwager, BPA [pdf] | |
| * Ed Beck, Tucson Electric | |
| · Planned outreach activities | |
| * Bud Krogh, Gridwest | |
| Background Information | |
| Western Assessment Group White Paper | |
| National Town Meeting Fact Sheet on Demand Response | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 a.m. | WECC Report |
| (Information disclosure, operation of a public database, WECC loads and resource assessments, resource adequacy, and other) | |
| · Louise McCarren, WECC | |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch - on your own |
| 1:30 p.m. | Proposed joint analysis of transmission flows and Available Transmission Capacity |
| · Dean Perry, SSG-WI/Doug Larson, WIEB | |
| Background Information | |
| Perry and Larson presentation | |
| Recommendations to FERC | |
| Criteria to Select Paths | |
| Structure/Work Plan | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Transmission planning |
| Significant efforts continue on pro-active interconnection-wide and sub-regional transmission planning. Many of these efforts are ad hoc in nature without an ongoing institutional home. Questions about the links between planning and project development remain uncertain. The objectives of this agenda item are to: | |
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| · Tariff amendments to support for regional transmission planning - FERC (invited) | |
| · Regional planning work | |
| o SSG-WI - Dean Perry [pdf] | |
| o SWAT - Prasad Poturri/Jerry Smith [pdf] | |
| o NTAC - Phil Carver [pdf] | |
| o RMATS - Steve Ellenbecker | |
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·
Transmission
Issues Group (TIG) Planning and Expansion Charter - o Tim Culbertson |
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| · Grid West - Bud Krogh | |
| · Open season for Montana-Idaho expansion | |
| o Ray Brush, Northwestern Energy [pdf] | |
| · Discussion on steps to link IRPs and regional transmission planning | |
o Reports on action by state PUCs pursuant to agreement at CREPC's last meeting to ask LSEs to consider regional transmission plan results in IRPs and explain any differences between IRP load and resource forecasts and data submitted to WECC. |
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o Discussion of synchronizing the schedule for IRP submissions to PUCs to allow consideration of large transmission/generation projects that may be of use to multiple LSEs. |
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| Background Information | |
| Frontier Line | |
| Palo Verde-Devers II Presentation to the California ISO Board | |
| Palo Verde-Devers II Report to the California ISO Board | |
| NorthWestern Energy Open Season | |
| TIG Charter | |
| Proposal CREPC Adopted in October 2004 to Better Link LSE Integrated Resource | |
| Plans with Regional Transmission and Resource Adequacy Analyses | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:45 p.m. | CREPC's Transmission Regulatory Principles Work Group [pdf] |
| Becky Wilson, UT PSC | |
| Wayne Shirley, RAP | |
| Carl Linvill, Nevada PUC | |
| Larry Nordell, MT CC | |
| Steve Oxley, WY PSC | |
| Laura Nelson, ID PUC | |
| Background Information | |
| TREG Working Paper | |
| Recess | |
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Thursday, April 21, 2004 |
| 7:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Regional Transmission Planning work continued |
| o STEP - Jeff Miller [pdf] /Phil AuClair/Jerry Smith | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Electricity resource assessment and adequacy |
| · CREPC's West-wide resource assessment team (WRAT) | |
| Seeking consensus on WI resource adequacy -- overview | |
| o Grace Anderson -- Lead, WRAT | |
| · Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC): | |
| WECC progress in formulating and applying resource adequacy criteria | |
| o Steve Rueckert -- WECC | |
| · CREPC west-wide resource assessment team: | |
| Continuing Focus -- developing and using improved assessments | |
| o Mike Jaske, California Energy Commission | |
| o Phil Carver, Oregon Department of Energy | |
| · Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL): | |
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Continuing Focus -- Integrated resource plans treatment of loads,
efficiency and adequacy |
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| o Charles Goldman and Andrew Mingst, LBL | |
| · Recommendations for CREPC - 2005 next steps WRAT proposal | |
| Background information | |
| WRAT resource adequacy status memo: "strawman" elements | |
| Resource Assessment and Adequacy Reference Materials | |
| A resource adequacy framework for the Pacific Northwest | |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Fuel diversity |
| · State RPS and IRP Targets Renewables | |
| o Ryan Wiser, LBL [pdf] | |
| · Tehachapi and the Renewable Trunk-line Precedent | |
| o Laura Doll, California PUC [pdf] | |
| · Evaluating wind, integration and firming costs: Judith Gap | |
| o Tom Schneider, Montana PSC | |
| · Wind policies in New Mexico | |
| o Prasad Potturi, New Mexico PUC | |
| · State perspectives on carbon risk in IRPs | |
| o Phil Carver, Oregon Department of Energy | |
| Background Information | |
| CA PUC Tehachapi Transmission | |
| SCE Renewable Trunk-Line FERC Filing | |
| Montana PSC Order Judith Gap | |
| Wind Impact Studies 2004 | |
| LBL-Fossil Fuel and Carbon Scenarios | |
| 12:15 p.m. | CREPC business meeting |
| · CREPC/WRAT Recommendations | |
| · Market Monitoring | |
| · Summer outlook | |
| o Steve Harvey/George Godding, FERC [pdf] | |
| o Mike Jaske, CEC [pdf] | |
| o Wally Gibson, NWPCC [pdf] | |
| · Appointments | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Adjourn |