FERC Filings
RE: Docket No. PL01-5—Technical Conference on RTO Interregional Coordination Under Order No. 2000 (Function 8)
JOE DEVITO/PAUL SAVAGE-NRG POWER MARKETING, INC.
NRG requests that the following individuals be permitted to speak on its behalf at the Conference on the following issues:
A. New England Power Pool, New York Independent System Operator, and PJM Interconnection
Joseph DeVito, NRG's Executive Director of Regulatory Affairs and Paul A. Savage, NRG's Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs would address interregional coordination between the three Northeast ISOs: PJM Interconnection, the New York ISO and ISO New England. Messrs. DeVito and Savage would present NRG's position that current efforts to resolve seams issues in the Northeast through the ISO Memorandum of Understanding process are unlikely to result in a timely and comprehensive resolution of critical interregional issues between these closely related markets. A formal process needs to be established to bring about a standard market design, and possibly leading to a single market among the three northeastern markets. Messrs. DeVito and Savage intend to address these issues by providing specific examples and citing incidents to substantiate NRG's positions and by outlining an improved process for their resolution.
B. Southwest Power Pool, Entergy and Southern Companies Messrs. Devito and Savage of NRG would address the coordination necessary among the Southwest Power Pool ("SPP"), Entergy and the Southern Companies in order to establish a Southern Regional Energy Market. In order to develop a southern-wide energy market, critical market factors such as congestion management, transmission access, transmission rates and market products must be developed in a coordinated fashion. Given the ineffectiveness of voluntary procedures for increased regional coordination among the northeastern markets, a formal process should be implemented among SPP, Entergy and Southern in order to achieve appropriate regional scope and homonogenization of markets. Messrs. Devito and Savage will address these issues by providing specific examples of problems which presently frustrate greater regionalization and increase seams issues within the southern region.
C. California and the Western RTO
Messrs. Devito and Savage would address the need to establish a process so that the commission's goal of a west-wide RTO can be accomplished. The failure to date of many regions to achieve appropriate interregional coordination through voluntary means, such as the inadequate results of the Northeast ISO memorandum of understanding process, illustrate that a more formal mechanism is required. Specifically, greater coordination and homogenization is required with respect to market products, transmission issues and congestion management in order to achieve a more efficient and robust energy market in the West.