[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 36 (Friday, February 22, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8240-8241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4252]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Technical Conference Organization
February 14, 2002.
In the matter of Docket Nos. RM01-12-000, RT01-2-001, RT-2-002, RT01-2-
003, RT01-10-000, RT01-15-000, RT01-34-000, RT01-35-000, RT01-67-000,
RT01-74-000, RT01-75-000, RT01-77-000, RT01-85-000, RT01-86-000, RT01-
86-001, RT01-86-002, RT01-87-000, RT01-88-000, RT01-94-000, RT01-95-
000, RT01-95-001, RT01-95-002, RT01-98-000, RT01-99-000, RT01-99-001,
RT01-99-002, RT01-99-003, RT01-100-000, RT01-101-000, EC01-146-000,
ER01-3000-000, RT02-1-000, EL02-9-000, EC01-156-000, ER01-3154-000, and
EL01-80-000
Electricity Market Design and Structure, PJM Interconnection,
L.L.C.,
Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc., Atlantic City Electric
Company, Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, Delmarva Power & Light
Company, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Metropolitan Edison
Company, PECO Energy Company, Pennsylvania Electric Company, PPL
Electric Utilities Corporation, Potomac Electric Power Company, Public
Service Electric & Gas Company, UGI Utilities Inc., Allegheny Power,
Avista Corporation, Montana Power Company, Nevada Power Company,
Portland General Electric Company, Puget Sound Energy, Inc., Sierra
Pacific Power Company, Southwest Power Pool, Inc., Avista Corporation,
Bonneville Power Administration, Idaho Power Company, Montana Power
Company, Nevada Power Company, PacifiCorp, Portland General Electric
Company, Puget Sound Energy, Inc., Sierra Pacific Power Company,
GridFlorida LLC, Florida Power & Light Company, Florida Power
Corporation, Tampa Electric Company, Carolina Power & Light Company,
Duke Energy Corporation, South Carolina Electric & Gas Company,
GridSouth Transco, LLC, Entergy Services, Inc., Southern Company
Services, Inc., California Independent System Operator Corporation,
Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, Central Maine Power Company, National
Grid USA, Northeast Utilities Service Company, The United Illuminating
Company, Vermont
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Electric Power Company, ISO New England Inc., Midwest Independent
System Operator, Alliance Companies, NSTAR Services Company, New York
Independent System Operator, Inc., Central Hudson Gas & Electric
Corporation, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Niagara
Mohawk Power Corporation, New York State Electric & Gas Corporation,
Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc., Rochester Gas & Electric
Corporation, PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., Regional Transmission
Organizations, Regional Transmission Organizations, International
Transmission Company, DTE Energy Company, Arizona Public Service
Company, El Paso Electric Company, Public Service Company of New
Mexico, Tucson Electric Power Company, WestConnect RTO, LLC, Alliant
Energy Corporate Services, Inc., MidAmerican Energy Company, Xcel
Energy Services, Inc., TRANSLink Transmission Company, LLC, National
Grid USA
Notice of Technical Conference Organization
As announced in the Notice of Technical Conference issued on
February 5, 2002, Commission staff will hold a technical conference on
February 19, 2002, to discuss the allocation of regional transmission
organization (RTO) characteristics and functions between separate
organizations within an RTO region.\1\ Participants also may address
the allocation of responsibility for performing other wholesale market
functions. This notice provides further organizational details and the
conference agenda.
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\1\ The RTO characteristics are: (1) Independence; (2) scope and
regional configuration; (3) operational authority; and (4) short-
term reliability. RTO functions include: (1) Tariff administration
and design; (2) congestion management; (3) parallel path flow; (4)
ancillary services; (5) OASIS, total transmission capacity and
available transmission capacity; (6) market monitoring; (7) planning
and expansion; and (8) interregional coordination. See Regional
Transmission Organizations, Order No. 2000, FERC Stats. and Regs.
31,089 (1999), order on reh'g, Order No. 2000-A, FERC Stats. And
Regs. 31,092 (2000), aff'd, Public Utility District No. 1 of
Snohomish County, Washington v. FERC, 272 F.3d 607 (D.C. Cir. 2001).
See also Order Providing Guidance on Continued Processing of RTO
Filings, 97 FERC para. 61,146 at 61,633 (2001).
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The conference will start at approximately 9 a.m. and will adjourn
at about 4:45 p.m. It is scheduled to take place at the Commission's
offices, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20426, in the
Commission Meeting Room on the second floor. The agenda is appended to
this notice as Attachment A.
The conference is open for the public to attend, and registration
is not required. Members of the Commission may attend the conference
and participate in the discussions. We ask participants to focus on the
following four questions:
(1) If the functions and characteristics specified in Order No.
2000 are shared or coordinated among separate organizations within an
RTO, how would you suggest that these functions be apportioned? Please
use the matrix appended to this notice as Attachment B as a guide.
(2) From the perspective of either engineering or economic
efficiency, is it more appropriate to have certain functions
administered over as large a region as possible? Conversely, are there
certain functions which can be effectively administered at a sub-
regional level?
(3) As we try to evaluate how functions might be apportioned, is it
useful to distinguish between functions that relate solely to operating
and administrating the transmission grid and functions that relate more
to operation and oversight of markets for trading wholesale power and
energy?
(4) Is the business model or incentive structure proposed for an
organization relevant to the question of which functions it should
undertake?
Any interested party may file comments in Docket No. RM01-12-000
that address the issues above or follow up on the conference
discussions. It is not necessary to re-file comments or file summaries
of comments already filed with the Commission. Commenters are asked to
specifically identify the region or regions, if any, that their
comments address, and to cross-file their comments in any appropriate
RT dockets. Comments must be filed no later than March 12, 2002.
The Capitol Connection offers all open and special Commission
meetings held at the Commission's headquarters live over the Internet,
as well as via telephone and satellite. For a fee, you can receive
these meetings in your office, at home, or anywhere in the world. To
find out more about the Capitol Connection's live Internet, phone
bridge, or satellite coverage, contact David Reininger or Julia Morelli
at (703) 993-3100, or visit www.capitolconnection.gmu.edu. The Capitol
Connection also offers FERC open meetings through its Washington,
D.C.--area television service.
Additionally, live and archived audio of FERC public meetings are
available for a fee via National Narrowcast Network's Hearings.com (sm)
and Hearing-On-The-Line (r) services. Interested parties may listen to
the conference live by phone or web. Hearings.com audio will be
archived immediately for listening on demand after the event is
completed. Call (202) 966-2211 for further details.
Those interested in obtaining transcripts of the conference need to
contact Ace Federal Reporters at (202) 347-3700 or (800) 336-6646.
Anyone interested in purchasing videotapes of the meeting should call
VISCOM at (703) 715-7999.
Other questions about the conference program should be directed to:
Diane Bernier, Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426,
(202) 219-2886, [email protected].
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-4252 Filed 2-21-02; 8:45 am]
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