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Dated: March 8, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
March 17, 2011 (8 a.m.–12 p.m.)
Entergy Regional State Committee
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March 18, 2011 (8 a.m.–12 p.m.
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The discussions may address matters
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notice that members of its staff may
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attendance is part of the Commission’s
ongoing outreach efforts.
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Dated: March 7, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Supplemental Notice of Technical
Conference
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Docket No.
Priority Rights to New Participant-Funded Transmission .................................................................................................................
Alta Wind I, LLC ...............................................................................................................................................................................
Alta Wind II, LLC ..............................................................................................................................................................................
Alta Wind III, LLC .............................................................................................................................................................................
Alta Wind IV, LLC .............................................................................................................................................................................
Alta Wind V, LLC ..............................................................................................................................................................................
Alta Wind VI, LLC .............................................................................................................................................................................
Alta Wind VII, LLC ............................................................................................................................................................................
Alta Wind VIII, LLC ...........................................................................................................................................................................
Alta Windpower Development, LLC .................................................................................................................................................
TGP Development Company, LLC ...................................................................................................................................................
Puget Sound Energy, Inc .................................................................................................................................................................
Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC, TGP Dixie Development Company, LLC, and New York Canyon, LLC ..........................................
Green Borders Geothermal, LLC v. Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC ...................................................................................................
Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC ............................................................................................................................................................
Northern Pass Transmission, LLC ...................................................................................................................................................
Cedar Creek Wind Energy, LLC .......................................................................................................................................................
Milford Wind Corridor Phase I, LLC .................................................................................................................................................
SunZia Transmission, LLC ...............................................................................................................................................................
On February 22, 2011, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission) announced that a
Technical Conference on Priority Rights
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to New Participant-Funded
Transmission will be held on Tuesday,
March 15, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15
p.m. (EST). The staff-led conference will
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EL10–36–002
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ER11–2377–000
RC11–1–000
RC11–2–000
EL11–24–000
be held in the Commission Meeting
Room at the Commission’s headquarters
at 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426. The conference will be open for
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the public to attend and advance
registration is not required. Members of
the Commission may attend the
conference.
Attached to this supplemental notice
is an agenda for the conference. If any
changes are made, the revised agenda
will be posted prior to the event on the
Calendar of Events on the Commission’s
Web site, https://www.ferc.gov.
Notice is also hereby given that
discussions at the conference may
address matters at issue in the abovereferenced individual proceedings that
are either pending or within their
rehearing period.
A free webcast of the technical
conference will be available. Anyone
with internet access who desires to
listen to this event can do so by
navigating to the Calendar of Events on
the Commission’s Web site and locating
this event in the Calendar. The event
will contain a link to its webcast. The
Capitol Connection provides technical
support for webcasts and will offer the
option of listening to the conference via
phone-bridge for a fee. If you have any
questions about the webcast, visit
https://www.CapitolConnection.org or
call (703) 993–3100.
This conference will also be
transcribed. Transcripts will be
available immediately, for a fee, from
Ace Reporting Company (202–347–3700
or 800–336–6646).
FERC conferences are accessible
under section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973. For accessibility
accommodations please send an e-mail
to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free
(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502–
8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208–
2106 with the requested
accommodations.
For further information please contact
Becky Robinson at (202) 502–8868 or
Becky.Robinson@ferc.gov; or Pierson
Stoecklein at (202) 502–6372 or
Pierson.Stoecklein@ferc.gov.
Dated: March 7, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
Priority Access to New Participant-Funded
Transmission
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AD11–11–000
March 15, 2011
Agenda
9:30–9:45 a.m.
Remarks
Welcome and Opening
Introduction
The electric industry has evolved since
Order No. 888 was adopted. In addition to
the traditional utility structure of vertical
integration, new models for developing,
owning, and operating electric transmission
infrastructure have been the subject of
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petitions before the Commission. In several
of these proceedings, various proposals have
been made regarding priority access to the
transmission capacity developed.
Commission staff would like to explore
issues related to priority rights to use
transmission infrastructure developed under
these new business models in two contexts:
independent and/or merchant transmission 1
and generator lead lines.2
In both contexts, participants are
encouraged to identify and discuss the
appropriate balance between the
Commission’s requirements for open access
and the needs of project developers.
Participants are encouraged to propose and
discuss possible regulatory alternatives that
are consistent with the Commission’s open
access policies and its statutory
responsibility to ensure that rates, terms, and
conditions of service are just and reasonable
and not unduly discriminatory or
preferential.
Panel 1
9:45–11:45 a.m. Independent and/or
Merchant Transmission Lines
Transmission infrastructure is no longer
solely developed, owned, and operated by
incumbent utilities serving native load
within their traditional footprint, but also by
non-incumbent, independent developers on a
cost-of-service or negotiated rate basis. The
purpose of this panel is to discuss whether
to allow these non-traditional entities
flexibility in the allocation of priority rights
to the use of transmission facilities and, if so,
how such flexibility could be implemented
consistent with Commission open access
policies. Panelists are encouraged to address:
• The effect of the Commission’s current
affiliate rules and pricing structures (e.g.,
cost-based or negotiated rates) on the
economics of a proposed project, as well as
on efforts to right-size/up-size a proposed
project;
• The need for and appropriate application
of mechanisms to ensure customer interest in
and access to new transmission (including,
but not necessarily limited to anchor
shipper/tenant arrangements and open
seasons) and how such mechanisms can be
implemented to accommodate developers’
project development and customers’ needs,
while satisfying the Commission’s open
access policies and responsibility to ensure
that rates are just and reasonable and not
unduly discriminatory or preferential.
Panelists
➢ Stephen Conant, Senior Vice President
for Strategic Development, Anbaric
Transmission, LLC & NEITC
➢ Terry Wolf, Manager, Transmission
Services, Missouri River Energy Services
➢ Mike Cashell, Chief Transmission
Officer, NorthWestern Energy
➢ Cynthia Marlette, Special Counsel,
Patton Boggs LLP (Western Independent
Transmission Group)
➢ Michael Skelly, President, Clean Line
Energy
1 See, e.g., Chinook Power Transmission, LLC, 126
FERC ¶ 61,134 (2009).
2 See, e.g., Milford Wind Corridor, LLC, 129 FERC
¶ 61,149 (2009).
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➢ David Raskin, Partner, Steptoe &
Johnson LLP
➢ Robert van Beers, Chief Development
Officer, Tonbridge Power, Inc.
➢ Tyson Utt, Project Manager, Horizon
Wind Energy LLC
➢ Kenneth Houston, Director,
Transmission Services, PacifiCorp
11:45 a.m.–1 p.m.
BREAK
Panel 2
1–3 p.m.
Generator Lead Lines
Increasingly, generation owners have
chosen to build, administer, and operate the
transmission facilities that interconnect their
generation facilities with the network
transmission system, referred to herein as
generator lead lines. In that situation,
generation owners also have sought to secure
priority rights to use the capacity on these
lines. The purpose of this panel is to address
the application of the Commission’s open
access policies to generator lead lines in the
instance when affiliated or unaffiliated thirdparty generators also seek to use these
facilities. Panelists are encouraged to
address:
• The unique attributes of generator lead
lines among transmission facilities (including
ownership structures, physical or operational
characteristics, etc.);
• The implications for generation
developers and potential transmission
customers of the Commission applying open
access polices in the same manner to
generator lead lines as it applies those
policies to other transmission facilities, and
whether the Commission should apply its
open access policies to generator lead line
facilities in a manner different from the way
it applies such policies to other transmission
facilities;
• The showing required to justify priority
usage allocations (e.g., types of ownership/
lease arrangements and expansion/
development plans with definite dates and
milestones for construction), and the extent
to which this showing accommodates
developers’ project development and
customers’ needs, while satisfying the
Commission’s open access policies and
responsibility to ensure that rates are just and
reasonable and not unduly discriminatory or
preferential.
Panelists
➢ Brad Oachs, Chief Operating Officer,
Minnesota Power
➢ Joel Newton, Senior Attorney, NextEra
Energy Resources LLC
➢ Tom DeBoer, Director, Rates and
Regulatory Affairs, Puget Sound Energy,
Inc.
➢ Richard Lorenzo, Partner, Loeb & Loeb
LLP
➢ Adam Wenner, Partner, Chadbourne &
Parke LLP
➢ Kurt Adams, Executive Vice President &
Chief Development Officer, First Wind
➢ Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Regulatory
Affairs and Transmission, Invenergy LLC
3–3:15 p.m.
Wrap-Up
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Supplemental Notice of Technical Conference
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Docket No.
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Priority Rights to New Participant- AD11-11-000
Funded Transmission.
Alta Wind I, LLC....................... EL10-62-000
Alta Wind II, LLC......................
Alta Wind III, LLC.....................
Alta Wind IV, LLC......................
Alta Wind V, LLC.......................
Alta Wind VI, LLC......................
Alta Wind VII, LLC.....................
Alta Wind VIII, LLC....................
Alta Windpower Development, LLC........
TGP Development Company, LLC...........
Puget Sound Energy, Inc................ EL10-72-001
Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC, TGP Dixie EL10-29-002
Development Company, LLC, and New York
Canyon, LLC.
Green Borders Geothermal, LLC v. Terra- EL10-36-002
Gen Dixie Valley, LLC.
Terra-Gen Dixie Valley, LLC............ ER11-2127-001
Northern Pass Transmission, LLC........ ER11-2377-000
Cedar Creek Wind Energy, LLC........... RC11-1-000
Milford Wind Corridor Phase I, LLC..... RC11-2-000
SunZia Transmission, LLC............... EL11-24-000
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On February 22, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission) announced that a Technical Conference on Priority Rights
to New Participant-Funded Transmission will be held on Tuesday, March
15, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. (EST). The staff-led conference
will be held in the Commission Meeting Room at the Commission's
headquarters at 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. The
conference will be open for
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the public to attend and advance registration is not required. Members
of the Commission may attend the conference.
Attached to this supplemental notice is an agenda for the
conference. If any changes are made, the revised agenda will be posted
prior to the event on the Calendar of Events on the Commission's Web
site, https://www.ferc.gov.
Notice is also hereby given that discussions at the conference may
address matters at issue in the above-referenced individual proceedings
that are either pending or within their rehearing period.
A free webcast of the technical conference will be available.
Anyone with internet access who desires to listen to this event can do
so by navigating to the Calendar of Events on the Commission's Web site
and locating this event in the Calendar. The event will contain a link
to its webcast. The Capitol Connection provides technical support for
webcasts and will offer the option of listening to the conference via
phone-bridge for a fee. If you have any questions about the webcast,
visit https://www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703) 993-3100.
This conference will also be transcribed. Transcripts will be
available immediately, for a fee, from Ace Reporting Company (202-347-
3700 or 800-336-6646).
FERC conferences are accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations please
send an e-mail to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free (866) 208-
3372 (voice) or (202) 502-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106
with the requested accommodations.
For further information please contact Becky Robinson at (202) 502-
8868 or Becky.Robinson@ferc.gov; or Pierson Stoecklein at (202) 502-
6372 or Pierson.Stoecklein@ferc.gov.
Dated: March 7, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
Priority Access to New Participant-Funded Transmission
AD11-11-000
March 15, 2011
Agenda
9:30-9:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Introduction
The electric industry has evolved since Order No. 888 was
adopted. In addition to the traditional utility structure of
vertical integration, new models for developing, owning, and
operating electric transmission infrastructure have been the subject
of petitions before the Commission. In several of these proceedings,
various proposals have been made regarding priority access to the
transmission capacity developed. Commission staff would like to
explore issues related to priority rights to use transmission
infrastructure developed under these new business models in two
contexts: independent and/or merchant transmission \1\ and generator
lead lines.\2\
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\1\ See, e.g., Chinook Power Transmission, LLC, 126 FERC ]
61,134 (2009).
\2\ See, e.g., Milford Wind Corridor, LLC, 129 FERC ] 61,149
(2009).
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In both contexts, participants are encouraged to identify and
discuss the appropriate balance between the Commission's
requirements for open access and the needs of project developers.
Participants are encouraged to propose and discuss possible
regulatory alternatives that are consistent with the Commission's
open access policies and its statutory responsibility to ensure that
rates, terms, and conditions of service are just and reasonable and
not unduly discriminatory or preferential.
Panel 1
9:45-11:45 a.m. Independent and/or Merchant Transmission Lines
Transmission infrastructure is no longer solely developed,
owned, and operated by incumbent utilities serving native load
within their traditional footprint, but also by non-incumbent,
independent developers on a cost-of-service or negotiated rate
basis. The purpose of this panel is to discuss whether to allow
these non-traditional entities flexibility in the allocation of
priority rights to the use of transmission facilities and, if so,
how such flexibility could be implemented consistent with Commission
open access policies. Panelists are encouraged to address:
The effect of the Commission's current affiliate rules
and pricing structures (e.g., cost-based or negotiated rates) on the
economics of a proposed project, as well as on efforts to right-
size/up-size a proposed project;
The need for and appropriate application of mechanisms
to ensure customer interest in and access to new transmission
(including, but not necessarily limited to anchor shipper/tenant
arrangements and open seasons) and how such mechanisms can be
implemented to accommodate developers' project development and
customers' needs, while satisfying the Commission's open access
policies and responsibility to ensure that rates are just and
reasonable and not unduly discriminatory or preferential.
Panelists
[rtarr8] Stephen Conant, Senior Vice President for Strategic
Development, Anbaric Transmission, LLC & NEITC
[rtarr8] Terry Wolf, Manager, Transmission Services, Missouri
River Energy Services
[rtarr8] Mike Cashell, Chief Transmission Officer, NorthWestern
Energy
[rtarr8] Cynthia Marlette, Special Counsel, Patton Boggs LLP
(Western Independent Transmission Group)
[rtarr8] Michael Skelly, President, Clean Line Energy
[rtarr8] David Raskin, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
[rtarr8] Robert van Beers, Chief Development Officer, Tonbridge
Power, Inc.
[rtarr8] Tyson Utt, Project Manager, Horizon Wind Energy LLC
[rtarr8] Kenneth Houston, Director, Transmission Services,
PacifiCorp
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. BREAK
Panel 2
1-3 p.m. Generator Lead Lines
Increasingly, generation owners have chosen to build,
administer, and operate the transmission facilities that
interconnect their generation facilities with the network
transmission system, referred to herein as generator lead lines. In
that situation, generation owners also have sought to secure
priority rights to use the capacity on these lines. The purpose of
this panel is to address the application of the Commission's open
access policies to generator lead lines in the instance when
affiliated or unaffiliated third-party generators also seek to use
these facilities. Panelists are encouraged to address:
The unique attributes of generator lead lines among
transmission facilities (including ownership structures, physical or
operational characteristics, etc.);
The implications for generation developers and
potential transmission customers of the Commission applying open
access polices in the same manner to generator lead lines as it
applies those policies to other transmission facilities, and whether
the Commission should apply its open access policies to generator
lead line facilities in a manner different from the way it applies
such policies to other transmission facilities;
The showing required to justify priority usage
allocations (e.g., types of ownership/lease arrangements and
expansion/development plans with definite dates and milestones for
construction), and the extent to which this showing accommodates
developers' project development and customers' needs, while
satisfying the Commission's open access policies and responsibility
to ensure that rates are just and reasonable and not unduly
discriminatory or preferential.
Panelists
[rtarr8] Brad Oachs, Chief Operating Officer, Minnesota Power
[rtarr8] Joel Newton, Senior Attorney, NextEra Energy Resources
LLC
[rtarr8] Tom DeBoer, Director, Rates and Regulatory Affairs,
Puget Sound Energy, Inc.
[rtarr8] Richard Lorenzo, Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP
[rtarr8] Adam Wenner, Partner, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
[rtarr8] Kurt Adams, Executive Vice President & Chief
Development Officer, First Wind
[rtarr8] Kris Zadlo, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and
Transmission, Invenergy LLC
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