[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 225 (Thursday, November 21, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70223-70225]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-29461]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RM01-12-000]
Remedying Undue Discrimination Through Open Access Transmission
Service and Standard Electricity Market Design
November 14, 2002.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of technical conference agenda.
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SUMMARY: As announced in the Notice of Technical Conferences issued on
October 22, 2002, Commission staff will convene a technical conference
on November 19, 2002 to discuss aspects of the resource adequacy
requirement proposed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in
this docket on July 31, 2002. See 67 FR 65, 913-15 (Oct. 29, 2002).
This notice provides further organizational details and the conference
agenda.
DATES: The conference will take place on November 19, 2002.
ADDRESSES: The conference will take place at: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah McKinley, Office of External
Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8004.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice of Technical Conference Agenda
1. As announced in the Notice of Technical Conferences issued on
October 22, 2002, Commission staff will convene a technical conference
on November 19, 2002 to discuss aspects of the resource adequacy
requirement proposed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in
this docket on July 31, 2002. This notice provides further
organizational details and the conference agenda.
2. The conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. and will adjourn at about
5:15 p.m. It is scheduled to take place at the Commission's offices,
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC, in the Commission Meeting Room
on the
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second floor. The agenda is appended to this notice as Attachment A. As
specified in the October 22, 2002 Notice, the discussions will attempt
to clarify and seek consensus on specific issues. The discussion
questions are appended to this notice as Attachment B.
3. The conference is open for the public to attend, and
registration is not required; however, in-person attendees are asked to
notify the Commission of their intent to attend by sending an e-mail
message to [email protected]. Members of the Commission may attend the
conference and participate in the discussions.
4. Transcripts of the conference will be immediately available from
Ace Reporting Company (202-347-3700 or 1-800-336-6646), for a fee. They
will be available for the public on the Commission's FERRIS system two
weeks after the conference. Additionally, Capitol Connection offers the
opportunity for remote listening and viewing of the conference. It is
available for a fee, live over the Internet, via C-Band Satellite.
Persons interested in receiving the broadcast, or who need information
on making arrangements should contact David Reininger or Julia Morelli
at the Capitol Connection (703-993-3100) as soon as possible or visit
the Capitol Connection web site at http://www.capitolconnection.gmu.edu
and click on ``FERC.''
5. Questions about the conference program should be directed to:
Sarah McKinley, Manager of State Outreach, Office of External Affairs,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8368, [email protected].
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Deputy Secretary.
Attachment A
Schedule
9:30-9:35 AM Introductions
9:35-9:45 AM Opening Remarks Kevin Kelly, Commission Staff
9:45-11:15 AM Session I
Panelists:
Regina M. Carrado, Regulatory Specialist, Exelon Corporation,
Exelon Generation, L.L.C.
David LaPlante, Vice President, Markets Development, ISO New
England Inc.
Ronald G. Lukas, Senior Vice President, KeySpan Energy Supply, LLC
Marc Montalvo, Manager of Wholesale Market Analytics, Lacapra
Associates, Inc., on behalf of the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer
Advocates
Karen Krug O'Neill, Vice President, New Markets, Green Mountain
Energy
Mark Reeder, Chief, Regulatory Economics, New York Public Service
Commission
11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30-1:00 PM Session II
Panelists:
Michael Alcantar, Attorney, Alcantar & Kahl LLP, on behalf of the
Cogeneration Association of California (CAC) and the Energy Producers
and Users Coalition (EPUC)
Kieran Connolly, Public Utilities Specialist, Bonneville Power
Administration
Kellan L. Fluckiger, Senior Advisor to the Chair and CEO,
California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority
John Meyer, Vice President of Asset Commercialization, Reliant
Resources
Charles Reinhold, WestConnect RTO Project Manager, Electric
Resource Strategies
Gary Stern, Director of Market Monitoring and Analysis, Southern
California Edison Company
To be determined, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Association
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch
2:00-3:30 PM Session III
Panelists:
James Caldwell, Policy Director, American Wind Energy Association
William F. Hall, III, Senior Vice President, Energy Policy &
Strategy, Duke Energy Corporation
William J. Head, Chief Operating Officer, MAPPCOR, representing the
Mid-Continent Area Power Pool
Stephen L. Huntoon, Senior Director & Regulatory Counsel, Dynegy
Power Marketing, Inc.
Sam Randazzo, Partner, McNees, Wallace & Nurick, LLC, on behalf of
Ohio Industrial Consumers
Rick Riley, Director, Transmission Policy, Entergy Services, Inc.
on behalf of SeTrans Sponsors
Raymond J. Wahle, P.E., Director, Power Supply and Operations,
Missouri River Energy Services
3:30-3:45 PM Break
3:45-5:15 PM Session IV
Panelists:
The Honorable Thomas Welch, Chairman, Maine Public Utilities
Commission
The Honorable Robert B. Nelson, Commissioner, Michigan Public
Service Commission
Richard Campbell, Director, Energy & Technology, American Forest &
Paper Association
David R. Nevius, Vice President, North American Electric
Reliability Council
Roy Shanker, Consultant and Participant of the Northeast Joint
Capacity Adequacy Group
David M. Velazquez, Vice President, Business Planning, Conectiv
Energy Supply Inc., on behalf of The Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
and the Alliance of Energy Suppliers
Attachment B
Discussion Questions
Each panel will discuss the following questions:
1. Should there be a standard resource adequacy plan for the entire
grid?
a. If not, what other measures can be used to ensure regional
resource adequacy?
2. For LSEs in states with bundled retail sales which have met
state planning guidelines, what more must the ITP do?
a. Should the ITP independently verify that the guidelines have
been met?
b. Should the ITP ensure the physical deliverability of identified
resources?
c. Should the ITP verify that no resources have been double counted
on a regional basis?
d. Is there value to coordinating these state planning guidelines
regionally?
3. What should the resource adequacy product requirement be?
a. Combination energy/call contracts requirement.
b. Capacity requirements, where energy and capacity are separate
products sold in the market. The seller of a capacity product would be
obligated to offer energy into the market.
4. How should the penalty structure on deficient LSEs be set?
a. Is a penalty on LSEs in real time sufficient?
b. Should an LSE who failed to meet its forward obligation in the
appropriate planning horizon be able to avoid a real-time penalty by
procuring its resources past the deadline?
5. What disincentives should exist for adequacy suppliers to
prevent non-performance?
6. Should the resource adequacy requirement be met solely through
bilateral contracts or should a centralized market (accommodating
bilateral contracts) be available?
7. What process should be implemented if the ITP identifies a
shortage of planned resources?
a. Should the ITP implement a market to ensure such resources are
available?
b. If so, who should pay for the availability of such resources?
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c. Further, should existing resources be able to participate in
such a market?
8. How will the ITP ensure deliverability of adequacy resources?
a. Must resources be physically identified to meet the adequacy
requirement?
b. Should liquidated damages contracts without specific resources
identified be sufficient?
c. How should transmission rights to distant generation sources be
allocated to meet the adequacy requirement?
9. What guidelines should the Regional State Advisory Committee
(RSAC) follow in determining the planning horizons and adequacy
procurement deadlines?
a. Should a ladder approach to procurement be allowed? This
approach would require LSEs to procure an increasing percentage of
their total adequacy requirement at intermediate points during the span
of the planning horizon.
10. What should the RSAC process be to determine each region's
adequacy requirement?
11. What should be the relationship between the RSAC and the ITP in
the load forecasting and resource evaluation process?
12. How should each LSE's obligation be set in a fluid retail
access environment? a. Should the adequacy product necessarily be
liquid and fungible?
13. How can demand resources be measured to count equally toward
adequacy requirements?
14. How can intermittent resources be evaluated to count
appropriately toward adequacy?
[FR Doc. 02-29461 Filed 11-20-02; 8:45 am]
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