Western Area Power Administration 2023 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Desert Southwest Region-Rate Order No. WAPA-209
Document Number: 2023-26963
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-12-08
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
New formula rates for firm and nonfirm point-to-point (P2P) and network integration (Network) transmission service have been confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim basis for the Desert Southwest Region (DSW) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA). The revisions to the existing formula rates for Parker-Davis Project (PDP) firm electric service (FES) and firm transmission service of Salt Lake City Area/Integrated Projects (SLCA/IP) power have also been confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim basis. The new formula rates and revisions to existing formula rates combine the facilities use charge for Electrical District No. 5 to Palo Verde Hub Project (ED5-PVH) and the transmission service rates of Central Arizona Project (CAP), the southern portion of Pacific Northwest- Pacific Southwest Intertie Project (Intertie), and PDP.
Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects and Colorado River Storage Project-Rate Order No. WAPA-206
Document Number: 2023-26049
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-11-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The provisional fixed rates for the Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects (SLCA/IP) firm power service and the formula rates for the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) transmission services, ancillary services, sale of surplus products, and joint dispatch transmission service have been confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim basis. The firm power rates under SLCA/IP Firm Power Rate Schedule SLIP-F12 expire December 31, 2023. Western Area Power Administration's (WAPA) CRSP Management Center (CRSP MC) is renewing all SLCA/IP and CRSP rates under one Federal Register notice (FRN), making all rates effective for the same period. These new rates replace existing firm power, transmission, ancillary services, sale of surplus products, and joint dispatch transmission service rates under Rate Orders No. WAPA-190, WAPA-195, and WAPA-199.
Extension of Public Comment Period for Central Valley Project Power, Transmission, and Ancillary Services; and the California-Oregon Transmission Project Transmission Service-Rate Order No. WAPA-207
Document Number: 2023-25432
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-11-17
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Sierra Nevada Region (SN) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is extending the public comment period for 30 days on its proposed formula rates for Central Valley Project (CVP) power, transmission, and ancillary services; and California-Oregon Transmission Project (COTP) transmission service under Rate Order No. WAPA-207.
2025 Resource Pool-Provo River Project, Proposed Power Allocation
Document Number: 2023-24002
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-10-31
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a Federal Power Marketing Administration of the Department of Energy (DOE), announces its Provo River Project (PRP) 2025 Resource Pool proposed power allocation. WAPA developed the proposed power allocations under its Final 2025 Provo River Project Marketing Plan and Call for 2025 Resource Pool Applications (Marketing Plan), published in the Federal Register March 17, 2023. WAPA proposes not to allocate any power under the 2025 Resource Pool.
Boulder Canyon Project
Document Number: 2023-18849
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-08-31
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Deputy Secretary confirms, approves, and places into effect on a final basis the Boulder Canyon Project base charge and rates for fiscal year 2024 under Rate Schedule BCP-F11. The base charge increased 11.3 percent from $66.8 million in FY 2023 to $74.3 million in FY 2024. The change is primarily the result of an increase in the Bureau of Reclamation's (Reclamation) replacement costs, an increase in WAPA's operations and maintenance (O&M) expenses and replacement costs, and a decrease in prior year carryover funds from FY 2023.
Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie Project and Parker-Davis Project-Rate Order No. WAPA-210
Document Number: 2023-18737
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-08-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The extension of the Desert Southwest Region's (DSW) existing transmission service rates for the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie Project (Intertie) and the existing transmission and firm electric service formula rates for the Parker-Davis Project (PDP) have been confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim basis. The existing rates under Rate Schedules INT-FT5, INT-NFT4, PD-F7, PD- FT7, PD-FCT7, and PD-NFT7 are set to expire on September 30, 2023. This rate extension makes no changes to the existing rates and extends them through September 30, 2024.
Formula Rates for Central Valley Project Power, Transmission, and Ancillary Services; and California-Oregon Transmission Project Transmission Service-Rate Order No. WAPA-207
Document Number: 2023-18748
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-08-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Sierra Nevada Region (SN) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) proposes new formula rates for the Central Valley Project (CVP) power, transmission, and ancillary services; and California-Oregon Transmission Project (COTP) transmission service. The existing formula rates for these services expire on September 24, 2024, and December 31, 2024. SN proposes to keep the same formula rates, without adjustments, for these services. SN proposes no material changes aside from updating the effective dates.
Agency Information Collection Extension
Document Number: 2023-16163
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-07-31
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, intends to extend an information collection request with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 3 years with ministerial changes. The current OMB control number 1910- 5136 for WAPA's Applicant Profile Data (APD) form expires March 31, 2024. WAPA intends to extend the APD form under the OMB control number to March 31, 2027. WAPA is seeking comments on this proposed information collection extension.
Desert Southwest Region-Rate Order No. WAPA-209
Document Number: 2023-13974
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-06-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Desert Southwest Region (DSW) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) proposes new formula rates for firm and nonfirm point-to-point (P2P) and network integration (Network) transmission service. DSW also proposes to revise the existing formula rates for Parker-Davis Project (PDP) firm electric service (FES) and firm transmission service of Salt Lake City Area/Integrated Projects (SLCA/ IP) power. The proposed new formula rates and revisions to existing formula rates would combine the transmission service rates of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), the southern portion of the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie Project (Intertie), and PDP; and the facilities use charge for the Electrical District No. 5 to Palo Verde Hub Project (ED5-PVH). DSW's proposed formula rates will be effective January 1, 2024, through September 30, 2028. Publication of this Federal Register notice begins the formal process for the proposed formula rates.
Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie Project and Parker-Davis Project-Rate Order No. WAPA-210
Document Number: 2023-13368
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-06-23
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Desert Southwest Region (DSW) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) proposes to extend the existing transmission service rates for the Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie Project (Intertie) and the existing transmission and firm electric service formula rates for the Parker-Davis Project (PDP) through September 30, 2024. The existing rates and formula rates remain unchanged under Rate Schedules INT-FT5, INT-NFT4, PD-F7, PD-FT7, PD- FCT7, and PD-NFT7, which expire on September 30, 2023.
Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects and Colorado River Storage Project-Rate Order No. WAPA-206
Document Number: 2023-13282
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-06-22
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) Management Center (MC) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) proposes a new Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects (SLCA/IP) firm power rate and updated effective dates for existing CRSP transmission, joint dispatch transmission, ancillary services, and sale of surplus products formula rates. The current firm power rate expires December 31, 2023. The CRSP transmission services, ancillary services, and surplus products rates that expire September 30, 2025, and the CRSP joint dispatch transmission service rate that expires September 30, 2024, are included in Rate Order No. WAPA-206 to make all the rate schedules effective for the same timeframe. The firm power service rate is proposed to remain the same. No material changes are proposed to the other rate schedules aside from updating the effective dates.
Recommendation for the Western Area Power Administration's Rocky Mountain Region and Colorado River Storage Project Management Center To Pursue Final Negotiations Regarding Membership in the Southwest Power Pool Regional Transmission Organization, and for the Upper Great Plains Region To Expand Its Participation
Document Number: 2023-09004
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-04-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a Power Marketing Administration of the Department of Energy (DOE), recommends the Rocky Mountain Region (WAPA-RM) with its Loveland Area Projects Transmission System and the Colorado River Storage Project Management Center (WAPA- CRSP) with its Colorado River Storage Project Transmission System pursue final negotiations regarding transmission owning membership in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Regional Transmission Organization (RTO), and the Upper Great Plains Region (WAPA-UGP) with its Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin ProjectEastern Division facilities in the Western Interconnection expand its participation in SPP. WAPA is seeking public comments from its customers, Indian Tribes, and other stakeholders on the substance of the recommendation.
Boulder Canyon Project
Document Number: 2023-08127
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-04-18
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Desert Southwest Region (DSW) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) proposes an adjustment to the base charge and rates for fiscal year (FY) 2024 Boulder Canyon Project (BCP) electric service under Rate Schedule BCP-F11. The proposal would increase the base charge 3.5 percent from $66.8 million in FY 2023 to $69.1 million in FY 2024. The change is primarily the result of a decrease in prior year carryover funds from FY 2023. The proposed base charge and rates would go into effect on October 1, 2023, and remain in effect through September 30, 2024. Publication of this Federal Register notice will initiate the public process.
Olmsted Powerplant Replacement Project-Rate Order No. WAPA-205
Document Number: 2023-06142
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-03-24
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The formula rate for the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) Management Center's (MC) Olmsted Powerplant Replacement Project (Olmsted Project) has been confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim basis (Provisional Formula Rate). The new formula rate, under Rate Schedule Olmsted F-2, replaces the existing formula rate for this service, under Rate Schedule Olmsted F-1, which expires on May 6, 2023. A change was made to the definition of Formula Rate in the Rate Schedule F-2 to reflect that the Annual Revenue Requirement is multiplied by the Customer's allocation percentage. The new formula rate under Rate Schedule Olmsted F-2 is effective May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2028.
Notice of Final 2025 Olmsted Power Marketing Plan
Document Number: 2023-05736
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-03-21
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a Federal Power Marketing Administration of the Department of Energy (DOE), announces its Final 2025 Olmsted Power Marketing Plan (Marketing Plan) for the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) Management Center (MC). On September 30, 2024, all of Olmsted Power Plant Replacement Project (Olmsted Project) energy sales contracts (Contracts) will expire. This notice responds to comments received on the Proposed 2025 Olmsted Power Marketing Plan (Proposed Plan) published in the Federal Register June 1, 2022, and sets forth the Marketing Plan. The Marketing Plan specifies the terms and conditions under which WAPA will market energy from the Olmsted Project beginning October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2054. This Marketing Plan supersedes the previous Olmsted Project marketing plan. WAPA will offer new Contracts for the sale of energy to existing customers (Customers) as more fully described in the Marketing Plan. The Marketing Plan also establishes one resource pool (2034 Resource Pool) of up to 3 percent of the marketable resource under contract at the time of reallocation to be available for eligible new preference entities or Customers. The 2034 Resource Pool will be under Contract by October 1, 2034. WAPA will publish the application procedures for the 2034 Resource Pool in a separate Federal Register notice.
Notice of Final 2025 Provo River Project Marketing Plan and Call for 2025 Resource Pool Applications
Document Number: 2023-05486
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-03-17
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a federal Power Marketing Administration of the Department of Energy (DOE), Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) Management Center (MC) announces its Final 2025 Provo River Project Marketing Plan (Marketing Plan) and Call for 2025 Resource Pool Applications (Call for Applications) for an allocation of federal energy from the Provo River Project (PRP). On September 30, 2024, all existing PRP energy sales contracts (Contracts) will expire. This notice responds to comments received on the Proposed 2025 Provo River Project Marketing Plan (Proposed Plan) published in the Federal Register June 1, 2022, and sets forth the Marketing Plan. The Marketing Plan specifies the terms and conditions under which WAPA will market energy from the PRP beginning October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2054. This Marketing Plan supersedes the previous PRP marketing plan. WAPA will offer new Contracts for the sale of energy to existing customers (Customers). The Marketing Plan also establishes one resource pool (2025 Resource Pool) of up to 3 percent of the net marketable resource under contract at the time of reallocation to be available for eligible new preference entities. Eligible preference entities who wish to apply for a new allocation from the PRP must submit a formal application using the Applicant Profile Data (APD) application form and satisfy the criteria as described in this Federal Register notice.
Desert Southwest Region Ancillary Services-Rate Order No. WAPA-208
Document Number: 2023-05152
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-03-14
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
New formula rates for Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Administrative Service, Energy Imbalance (EI) Service, and Generator Imbalance (GI) Service for the Western Area Lower Colorado (WALC) Balancing Authority (BA) have been confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim basis. The new formula rates are necessary for the WALC BA's participation in the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) EIM.
Desert Southwest Region Ancillary Services-Rate Order No. WAPA-208
Document Number: 2023-00165
Type: Notice
Date: 2023-01-09
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Desert Southwest Region (DSW) of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) proposes three new formula rates for Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) Administrative Service, Energy Imbalance (EI) Service, and Generator Imbalance (GI) Service for the Western Area Lower Colorado (WALC) Balancing Authority (BA). The new formula rates are necessary for participation in the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) EIM. If adopted, the proposed formula rates under Rate Schedules DSW-EIM1T, DSW-EIM4T, and DSW-EIM9T will become effective April 5, 2023, and remain in effect through September 30, 2026. Publication of this Federal Register notice begins the formal process for the proposed formula rates.
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