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RE: Docket No. PL01-5—Technical Conference on RTO Interregional Coordination Under Order No. 2000 (Function 8)

JOHN MEYER-RELIANT ENERGY

  • RTOs must be formed and operated to provide efficient and equal transmission access to all users.


    • RTOs must be of sufficient size and scope to accomplish the following:

  • Internalize most congestion.

  • Meet all reliability objectives, including generation capacity sufficiency.

  • Minimize the number of seams with adjoining areas.


  • Eliminate pancaked transmission rates.


  • Provide congestion management hedging for all transactions.


    • The industry must develop and endorse standards for scheduling, reservations, and commitment deadlines through a stakeholder process such as EISB. The results need to be endorsed by FERC.

    Total Transfer Capability must be the same between RTOs.

    Capacity Benefit Margin (CBM) and Transmission Reliability Margin (TRM) must be posted in real time, if applicable. It is preferable that TRM and CBM be zero.

    Available Transfer Capability (ATC) is defined by:

    ATC = TTC – TRM – CBM – Committed Transmission
    ATC must be continually updated.
    Each RTO at a seam must be using the same model to measure impacts on third parties.

    One-stop shopping between adjoining RTOs

    User should be able to schedule and reserve transmission with either RTO. That RTO will handle all requests and approvals with any other RTO. Approval granted will consider all parallel flows and commitment by user with one RTO will automatically bind both.

    Process for stakeholder input must be established for all RTOs.