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Energy Energy DeliveryDeliveryEastern Interconnection Planning

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Joseph PayneEntergy Services, Inc.

New Orleans, LAAugust 11, 2010

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EIPC recent activity• Resource Assessment and Interconnection – Level Transmission

Analysis and Planning. DOE Funding Opportunity #68– Topic A: Eastern Interconnection Studies. DOE selected EIPC in Dec 2009. – Topic B: State Funding. DOE selected state representatives (EISPC)

• July, 2010: SSC formed, composed of 29 members. SSC will provide strategic input to the interconnection-wide transmission analysis and planning efforts established by the EIPC and funded by the DOE. First SSC meeting held in July, 2010.

• SSC was developed through a series of discussions among consumers, environmentalists, electricity suppliers, transmission providers, energy service companies, public power entities, renewable energy interests, demand response providers, and representatives of state, provincial, and federal government

• SSC has formed preliminary working groups to address areas of interest

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• Next SSC meeting scheduled for October, 2010

• For more information on EIPC activities go to eipconline.com

EIPC recent activity