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product in the RTO/ISO markets. And
while the authorization provided in
Avista would apply to frequency
response, the restriction on sales to a
public utility that is purchasing
ancillary services to satisfy its own
OATT requirements to offer ancillary
services to its own customers effectively
precludes development of a market for
frequency response. These concerns
along with the recently authorized
reliability standard have created the
need for Commission Staff to request
input regarding existing regulatory and
tariff provisions as well as potential
market implications for frequency
response service.
At the workshop, staff would like to
discuss the technical, economic and
market issues concerning the provision
of Schedule 3 service as it relates to
frequency response, including:
• To what extent should existing
resources be required to provide their
inherent quantity of frequency response
as part of their existing obligations, with
any shortfall in achieving the balancing
authority area’s frequency response
obligation being procured through tariff
or market mechanisms such as in
ERCOT;
• Could competitive, market-based
procurement of primary frequency
response performance be structured to
address potential market power
concerns;
• Whether provision of autonomous
governor response could be traded in a
manner that is consistent with the
existing market power screens for sales
of energy and capacity;
• To what extent can existing
resources be equipped with governors,
or other control equipment that can
serve the same function, and how
expensive or time consuming would
such a retrofit be;
• Since governor-based autonomous
frequency response would not require
any dispatch signal from a balancing
area operator, would any special
dispatch or transmission scheduling
provisions be needed to provide the
service from resources in a neighboring
balancing authority area;
• Could competitive procurement of
primary frequency response be
structured to avoid increases in
Transmission Reliability Margin, avoid
barriers to non-conventional resources,
and assure the performance will be
consistent with the Commissionapproved balancing authority area
obligation, assure the generators
providing primary frequency response
achieve appropriate speed and
magnitude of power output;
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• How could cost-based payments for
primary frequency response
performance be structured;
• To what extent do existing
resources lack the necessary equipment
or fail to utilize the appropriate settings
on that equipment to provide primary
frequency response;
• Why do existing resources that have
the necessary equipment to provide
primary frequency response choose not
to use it or to absorb response; and,
• Are penalties for deviating from
generation schedules viewed as a
serious impediment to the provision of
frequency response?
The workshop will not be transcribed.
However, there will be a free webcast of
the workshop. Anyone with Internet
access interested in viewing this
workshop can do so by navigating to the
FERC Calendar of Events at
www.ferc.gov and locating this event in
the Calendar. The event will contain a
link to its webcast. The Capitol
Connection provides technical support
for the webcasts and offers the option of
listening to the workshop via phonebridge for a fee. If you have any
questions, visit
www.CapitolConnection.org or call
(703) 996–3100.
FERC workshops are accessible under
section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of
1973. For accessibility accommodations
please send an email 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.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC;
Notice of Request Under Blanket
Authorization
Sarah McKinley (Logistical
Information), Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Office of
External Affairs, (202) 502–8368,
sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov
Rahim Amerkhail (Technical
Information), Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Office of
Energy Policy and Innovation, 888
First Street NE., Washington, DC
20426, (202) 502–8266,
Rahim.amerkhail@ferc.gov.
Dated: February 20, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. EL14–19–000]
Midcontinent Independent System
Operator, Inc.; Notice of Institution of
Section 206 Proceeding and Refund
Effective Date
On February 20, 2014, the
Commission issued an order in Docket
No. EL14–19–000, pursuant to section
206 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 16
U.S.C. 824e (2012), instituting an
investigation into the justness and
reasonableness of Midcontinent
Independent System Operator Inc.’s
(MISO) proposed Regional Throughand-out Rate for service over the
transmission system in the MISO South
region. Midcontinent Indep. Sys.
Operator, Inc., 146 FERC ¶ 61,111
(2014).
The refund effective date in Docket
No. EL14–19–000, established pursuant
to section 206(b) of the FPA, will be the
date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register.
Dated: February 20, 2014.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP14–77–000]
Take notice that on February 10, 2014,
Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC
(Columbia), 5151 San Felipe, Suite
2500, Houston, Texas 77056, filed in
Docket No. CP14–77–000, a prior notice
request pursuant to sections 157.205,
157.208 and 157.210 of the
Commission’s Regulations under the
Natural Gas Act (NGA) as amended,
requesting authorization to construct 5.5
miles of 24-inch diameter pipeline and
appurtenances, extending Line R–701
north of McArthur Compressor Station,
located in Vinton and Fairfield
Counties, Ohio. Columbia states that the
proposed extension of Line R–701 will
not increase (or decrease) the line’s
capacity nor change any services
currently offered by Columbia.
Columbia asserts that the proposed
project is required to increase the
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. EL14-19-000]
Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.; Notice of
Institution of Section 206 Proceeding and Refund Effective Date
On February 20, 2014, the Commission issued an order in Docket No.
EL14-19-000, pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 16
U.S.C. 824e (2012), instituting an investigation into the justness and
reasonableness of Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc.'s
(MISO) proposed Regional Through-and-out Rate for service over the
transmission system in the MISO South region. Midcontinent Indep. Sys.
Operator, Inc., 146 FERC ] 61,111 (2014).
The refund effective date in Docket No. EL14-19-000, established
pursuant to section 206(b) of the FPA, will be the date of publication
of this notice in the Federal Register.
Dated: February 20, 2014.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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