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Project Tracking Update
July 12, 2011MOPC
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• STEP List (Excel Spreadsheet)– Engineers enter technical data and analysis on upgrades
– Used as a repository for all information on Transmission Upgrades
– Cumbersome and hard to update
– Historical record STEP list contains all upgrade information, even when project is
completed or withdrawn
Project Tracking Tools (Historical)
Project Tracking (New)
• Project Tracking Database – Phase 1– Upgrades tracked from NTC creation to rate recovery
through the life of the Upgrade
– Easier data retrieval Quicker information response
Eliminates multiple data requests
– No impacts to members in Phase 1
– Future phases of project Member database access
Flexible communications for Transmission Owners and SPP
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Project Tracking – Member Impact
• No impact to members– Members will see no changes in their construction
project interaction with SPP
– SPP employees will gather project information and input into database same as today
– Members have data that is more secure
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ITP Status Update
July 12, 2011MOPC
2011 ITP10 Stakeholder Activities
• TWG completed the Constraint Assessment
• ESWG approved the resource plans for the two futures– Future 1 – Business as Usual
– Future 2 – EPA Rules with Additional Wind: Adds additional wind generation and approximates the impact of EPA rulemaking by imposing retirements on small coal plants and a tax on carbon emissions
• ESWG authorized calculation and utilization of metrics for ITP10
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2011 ITP10 Stakeholder Activities
• Metric Calculation
– 9 metrics from ITP20– Adjusted Production Cost
– Value of Improved Available Transfer Capabilities
– Reduced Losses
– Impact on Losses Capacity
– Levelization of LMP’s
– Improved Competition in SPP Markets
– Limited Export/Import Improvements
– Reduction of Emission Rates and Values
– Ability to Serve new Load7
2011 ITP10 Stakeholder Activities
• Metric Calculation– Two additional metrics calculated
Backstop to Catastrophic Events
Value of replacing previously approved projects
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2011 ITP10 Completed Staff Activities
• Model Development completed– Topology updates, baseline fuel costs, etc.
• Quality Control– Stakeholder Review
– dispatches
– flowgate loadings
– LMP prices
– generator outages
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2011 ITP10 Upcoming Activities
• Identifying ITP10 potential violations– Reliability analysis of AC models with economic
dispatches
– Economic analysis of security-constrained economic dispatch models List of Top 10 congested constraints will be compiled
– ITP20 projects reviewed as potential ITP10 solutions
– Staff developing strawman for incorporating seams projects
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2011 ITPNT Activities
• Identification of potential violations
• Developed recommended plan for 100 kV and above upgrades
• Recommended plan will be presented at upcoming SPP Summit
• Developing recommended plan for below 100 kV
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• July Planning Summit– Dallas, TX on July 21st
– Discuss ITP10 potential violations (reliability, economic, and stability)
– Start selecting ITP10 projects
– Discuss ITPNT upgrades
– Sub-Regional & Local Area Breakout Discussions
• September Planning Summit
ITP Next Steps
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• October MOPC– Present draft solutions
– 2011 ITP10 & ITPNT Draft Report
• December Workshop– Tentative
• January MOPC– Present final transmission plan
– 2011 ITP10 & ITPNT Final Report
– 2011 STEP Report
ITP Next Steps
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Generator Interconnection and Aggregate Study Process
Internal review update
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• Background– General dissatisfaction expressed in customer satisfaction
survey
• Goals for Staff review– Understand concerns driving lower survey results
Staff performance?
Dissatisfaction with results?
Process?
– Identify opportunities for improvement
Background and Purpose
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• Common themes of feedback to-date– Length of time it takes to get through process and have
certainty in requirements to approve requested service still too long
– Impacts caused by shear volume of wind-related or other “speculative” requests on “ready to-go” projects
– Lack of process to finalize third party impacts
• Staff completing internal process review– Business process review
– Tools
– Resource requirements
Update
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• Initiatives underway– SPP TSR Coordination with Third Party Systems
– Third Party TSR Coordination with SPP
– DPT Prescreen
– Aggregate Study Withdrawal Costs
• Staff complete internal review
• Work with appropriate committees to assess potential process improvement proposals
• ATP Business Practice
Next Steps
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