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Title: Commissioner Marsha H. Smith


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Resource Assessment and Adequacy In the Western
Interconnection
Commissioner Marsha H. Smith Idaho Public
Utilities Commission Western Conference of Public
Service Commissioners Boise, Idaho June 22, 2005
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  • Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation
    (CREPC)
  • Joint committee of the WIEB and WCPSC established
    in 1983
  • Includes all state/provincial agencies in WI with
    electric power responsibilities
  • Effective forum for interstate discussions and
    regional interactions with industry and FERC
  • Action by unanimous vote
  • Supported formation of the Western Systems Power
    Pool
  • Supported creation of regional transmission
    groups
  • (WRTA, SWRTA, NRTA)
  • Supported creation of WECC

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  • West-wide Resource Assessment Team
  • (WRAT)
  • WRAT is an ad hoc technical working group within
    CREPC
  • Participants from technical staff of 9 states,
    NWPCC, and BC ministry, covering the majority of
    geography and loads in the Western
    Interconnection
  • Initiated series of conference calls after Fall
    2002 CREPC meeting
  • Impetus for formation--
  • uncertainty over resource availability
  • desire to indicate to FERC West is functioning on
    its own
  • Explores how the West can develop information
    and mechanisms to address resource assessment and
    adequacy
  • Focuses on coordination, integration, synthesis
    west-wide
  • receives technical support from Lawrence
    Berkeley Lab
  • works with WECC committee structure and staff

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  • WRAT Milestones and Emerging Consensus
  • 2003
  • WRAT briefs CREPC on Western Interconnection
    assessment challenges
  • WGA adopts resolution directing regional entities
    to perform Resource Adequacy study
  • WECC adopts goal to develop and publish
    Resource Adequacy criteria
  • 2004
  • WRAT develops and CREPC endorses Resource
    Adequacy strawman using voluntary
    guidelines/targets approach with seven key
    elements (10/04)
  • WECC Planning Coordination Committee forms
    Resource Adequacy Work Group (RAWG) (3/04)
  • NERC Standard Authorization Request on Resource
    Adequacy (11/04)
  • WECC readopts goal, directing implementation in
    calendar year 2005
  • RAWG agrees on consensus recommendations (12/04)

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  • WRAT Milestones and Emerging Consensus
    (continued)
  • 2005
  • WECC Planning Coordination Committee adopts
    Resource Adequacy motion and assigns to Loads and
    Resources Subcommittee (3/05)
  • NERC comment period on Standard Authorization
    Request on Resource Adequacy (2/05 3/05)
  • WECC Board approves use of Power Supply Design
    Criteria as adequacy assessment criteria
  • CREPC approves Resource Adequacy recommendations
    (4/05), including
  • 1) WRAT participation in all WECC forums to
    develop resource adequacy guidelines/targets
    compatible with the strawman accepted by CREPC
  • 2) WRAT advocacy of revisions to WECCs Power
    Supply Assessment to obtain results at a
    meaningful level of geographic disaggregation
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