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pdfBriefing on Order No. 1000 Presented by
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Staff
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Timeline
• Order No. 888 in 1996
– Requires open access to transmission facilities to address undue
discrimination and to bring more efficient, lower cost power to the Nation's
electricity consumers
• Order No. 890 in 2007
– Requires coordinated, open and transparent regional transmission planning
processes to address undue discrimination
• Order No. 1000 in 2011
– Requires transmission planning at the regional level to consider and evaluate
possible transmission alternatives and produce a regional transmission plan
– Requires the cost of transmission solutions chosen to meet regional
transmission needs to be allocated fairly to beneficiaries
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Order No. 1000
• Planning Requirements
• Cost Allocation Requirements
• Nonincumbent Developer
Requirements
• Compliance
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Current Transmission
Planning Regions
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• This map is for illustration purposes only. This map generally depicts the borders of regional transmission planning processes through which
transmission providers have complied with Order No. 890. Those borders may not be depicted precisely for several reasons (e.g., not all
transmission providers complying with Order No. 890 have a defined service territory). Additionally, transmission planning regions could alter
because transmission providers may choose to change regions.
• Source: Derived from Energy Velocity
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Important Terms
• Rule distinguishes between a transmission facility “in a
regional transmission plan” and “selected in a regional
transmission plan for purposes of cost allocation”
• Rule’s requirements apply to “new transmission facilities,”
which are those subject to evaluation or reevaluation
within local or regional transmission planning processes
after the effective date of compliance filings
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PLANNING REQUIREMENTS
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Planning Requirements
1. Public utility transmission providers are required to
participate in a regional transmission planning process
that satisfies Order No. 890 principles and produces a
regional transmission plan
2. Local and regional transmission planning processes must
consider transmission needs driven by public policy
requirements established by state or federal laws or
regulations
3. Public utility transmission providers in each pair of
neighboring transmission planning regions must
coordinate to determine if more efficient or cost‐effective
solutions are available
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Regional Planning
• Each transmission planning region must produce a
regional transmission plan reflecting solutions that
meet the region’s needs more efficiently or cost‐
effectively
• Stakeholders must have an opportunity to participate
in identifying and evaluating potential solutions to
regional needs
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Planning for
Public Policy Requirements
• Each public utility transmission provider must establish
procedures to:
– Identify transmission needs driven by public policy requirements
– Evaluate potential solutions to those needs
• Public policy requirements are defined as enacted
statutes and regulations promulgated by a relevant
jurisdiction, whether within a state or at the federal
level
• No mandate to include any specific requirement
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Interregional Coordination
• Each pair of neighboring transmission planning regions
must:
– Share information regarding the respective needs of each region and potential
solutions to those needs
– Identify and jointly evaluate interregional transmission facilities that may be
more efficient or cost‐effective solutions to those regional needs
• Interregional transmission facilities are those that are
located in two or more neighboring transmission
planning regions
• No requirement to produce an interregional transmission
plan or engage in interconnectionwide planning
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COST ALLOCATION
REQUIREMENTS
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Cost Allocation Requirements
1. Regional transmission planning process must have a regional cost
allocation method for a new transmission facility selected in the
regional transmission plan for purposes of cost allocation
– Cost allocation method must satisfy six regional cost allocation principles
2. Neighboring transmission planning regions must have a common
interregional cost allocation method for a new interregional
transmission facility that the regions select
– Cost allocation method must satisfy six similar interregional cost allocation
principles
3. Participant‐funding of new transmission facilities is permitted,
but is not allowed as the regional or interregional cost allocation
method
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Cost Allocation Principles
• Costs allocated “roughly commensurate” with estimated benefits
• Those who do not benefit from transmission do not have to
pay for it
• Benefit‐to‐cost thresholds must not exclude projects with
significant net benefits
• No allocation of costs outside a region unless other region agrees
• Cost allocation methods and identification of beneficiaries
must be transparent
• Different allocation methods could apply to different types
of transmission facilities
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Cost Allocation
• The rule does not require a one‐size fits all method
for allocating costs of transmission facilities
– Each region is to develop its own proposed cost allocation
method(s)
• If region can’t decide on a cost allocation method,
then FERC would decide based on the record
• No interconnectionwide cost allocation
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NONINCUMBENT
DEVELOPER REQUIREMENTS
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Nonincumbent Developers
• Rule promotes competition in regional
transmission planning processes to support
efficient and cost effective transmission
development
• Rule requires the development of a not unduly
discriminatory regional process for transmission
project submission, evaluation, and selection
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Nonincumbent Developers
Rule removes any federal right of first refusal from
Commission‐approved tariffs and agreements with respect to
new transmission facilities selected in a regional transmission
plan for purposes of cost allocation, subject to four limitations:
– This does not apply to a transmission facility that is not selected in a
regional transmission plan for purposes of cost allocation
– This does not apply to upgrades to transmission facilities, such as tower
change outs or reconductoring
– This allows, but does not require, the use of competitive bidding to solicit
transmission projects or project developers
– Nothing in this requirement affects state or local laws or regulations
regarding the construction of transmission facilities, including but not
limited to authority over siting or permitting of transmission facilities
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Compliance
• Each transmission provider is required to make
a compliance filing within twelve months of the
effective date of the Final Rule
• The compliance filings for interregional
transmission coordination and interregional cost
allocation must be filed within eighteen months
of the effective date
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Outreach
FERC plans 3 webinars (early Fall) to aid compliance:
• RTO regions
• Eastern (non‐RTO)
• Western (non‐ RTO)
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File Type | application/pdf |
File Title | Final Rule Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation by Transmission Owning and Operating Public Utilities |
Subject | Final Rule Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation by Transmission Owning and Operating Public Utilities, Briefing on Order No |
Author | FERC |
File Modified | 2011-07-22 |
File Created | 2011-07-22 |