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MOTION TO INTERVENE AND PROTEST OF ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY ASSOCIATION-Southern Company Services, Inc.-Docket No. RT00-77-000

Only the RTO should have the authority to interrupt a generator, and all generators should be treated on a non-discriminatory basis.

Although Southern indicates that the RTO will perform certain short-term reliability functions, Southern’s petition does not confirm that, excepting only emergency circumstances where seeking authorization of the RTO is not practical, only the RTO, acting in fulfillment of its NERC duties, should have the authority to disconnect, interrupt, or curtail a generator. The Commission should clarify that these important reliability functions should be vested with the RTO, and not retained by the Southern operating companies to the extent they have been granted by existing interconnection agreements. In addition, Southern’s petition states: “The Gridco will also coordinate planned generator outage schedules to ensure reliability of the transmission system, but will not have authority to dictate such schedules.” It is unclear whether Southern is attempting to reserve for itself the authority to dictate the schedule of outages for third party generators with which it has existing interconnection agreements. Accordingly, the Commission should require absolute relinquishment of control by Southern over the operations of third party generators interconnected to its system.

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