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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2005
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egistration and Coffee: 8:00 8:30 a.m.
Conference Timing: 8:30 a.m. 5:15 p.m.
Conference Chairperson:
Prem Bahl, Arizona Corporation Commission
Resource Adequacy in the Western Interconnection
What is resource adequacy
Why is this a hot topic
History of resource adequacy
Role of the states
Role of WECC
Robert Dintelman, Chief Operating Ofcer, WECC
State-Regional Partnerships--Formulating Resource
Adequacy Criteria and Performing Resource Assessment
Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation
(CREPC): 2005 Priorities for adequacy and assessment
Westwide Resource Assessment Team (WRAT):
Western interconnection RA conceptual approach
and elements
Consensus and progress through WECC Planning
Coordination committee (PCC)
Western governors: moving toward an integrated
electric/natural gas adequacy assessment
Postscript: 3 agency assessment
Southern California summer 2005 adequacy
Why assessment is key
Grace Anderson, Assistant Executive Director,
California Energy Commission; Leader,
CREPC Westwide Resource Assessment Team
Break 10:00 10:30 a.m.
Imposition of Resource Adequacy in California
Californias resource adequacy requirement:
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Year ahead showing
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Month ahead showing
Local area resource adequacy requirements
Performance obligations to the CAISO for resource
adequacy
The debate over rm energy (or LD) contracts
The future of resource adequacy in California
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The end state: pure capacity products and
demand curves as in some Eastern markets
The transition: potholes in the road from here to
there
Gary Stern, Director of Market Monitoring and
Analysis, Southern California Edison
Resource Planning and Procurement in a New
Era
After several years of turmoil, utilities have
re-entered the resource procurement market,
but conditions are vastly different and the risks
are greater
Utilities need to understand all the issues in
this new environment, including price volatility,
counterparty credit risk, and renewables
requirements
PA Consulting Group has conducted a survey of
resource planning practices and concerns at US
IOUs. This session will discuss the ndings of that
survey.
Frank Stern, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting
Group Luncheon 12:00 1:00 p.m.
Regulatory and Competitive Market Barriers to
Infrastructure Investment
Mike Oldak, Sr. Director, State Competitive &
Regulatory Policies, Edison Electric Institute
Supply and demand in the West...Are we Long
or Short?
What is the region-wide Planning Reserve Margin?
Are there transmission-constrained areas?
Is 15% planning reserve margin enough?
Why are some people saying we may have a
problem in the summer of 2005?
Will dry Northwest conditions cause us problems?
What is the story on retirements?
Richard Lauckhart, Vice President, Global Energy Competitive Procurement An Essential
Component of Utility Resource Planning
The consumer benets most when the local public utility
utilizes a market test in the form of a competitive solicitation
to compare various supply options to a benchmark utility
self-build option. Therefore, when assessing future supply
needs, utilities and state/local regulators should give due
consideration to competitive procurement and should
opt for the buy option when the circumstances dictate
that contracting for power is a superior alternative. The
buy option has many benets for consumers:
Least-cost supply
Increased price certainty
Risk transference away from consumers to the supplier
Cost-effective power plant development
Access to preferred sources of supply
The debt-equivalency issue has emerged as a major
element in the buy vs. build debate, necessitating full
understanding by all parties, especially regulators, of its
ramications for consumers.
Jack Hawks, Vice President, Public Affairs and
Planning, EPSA
Break 3:15 3:45 p.m.
Where is the Capital for New Generation?
Signicant capital was invested in generation in
1998-2002, but much of it was in regions with a
current capacity glut.
What is the consequence of the oversupply elsewhere
on the supply of capital for new capacity in the
West?
What is the role of private equity, hedge funds and
other nontraditional capital sources in the expansion
of generation in the West?
Renewables are receiving the benet of portfolio
standards and tax incentives what are the sources
of capital motivated by these policy incentives?
Ed Feo, Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Understand Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) and
Implementation Progress
Many states in the West have a renewable portfolio standard
that must be achieved. What are these resources, what
are the benets, and how much renewable resource
capicity needs to be in your mix?
Identify which states have RPS programs and which
technologies are eligible
Benets of each eligible technology and its costs
Integration of renewable resources into the existing
generation portfolio mix
Jeff Hatch-Miller, Chairman,
Arizona Corporation Commission
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2005
Continental Breakfast 8:00 8:30 a.m
Conference Timing: 8:30 a.m. 12:00 p.m.
New Transmission Challenges and Opportunities
Robert Mitchell, President & Chief Operating Ofcer,
Trans-Elect
WECC Reliability for the Western Interconnection
Accepted role and mission of WECC
History of standards development
Current activities
Organization to facilitate regional undertakings
Partnerships
Future direction
Robert Dintelman, Chief Operating Ofcer, WECC
Break 10:00 10:30 a.m.
Ensuring Reliability Regional Planning
Ongoing regional planning efforts in the western
interconnection and how these efforts are essential
to meeting the western interconnections reliability
needs of the future
Role of State and Federal Regulatory Commissions
Importance of Coordior Planning
Role of independent transmission developers
Gary DeShazo, Regional Transmission Manager,
California ISO
Relying on the Market for Resource Needs
Regulatory desire to promote a competitive market
Merchant generation in the Southwest
Don Robinson, Vice President Planning,
Arizona Public Service
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