Effects of the western market on westconnect operations

Author

Smith, Jerry

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

13-17 July 2003

Abstract

The paper deals with the effects of the western market on westconnect operations. Participating in the efforts to develop westconnect were the FERC-jurisdictional public utilities, Arizona Public Service Company, El Paso Electric Company, Public Service Company of New Mexico and Tucson Electric Power Company, and the nonjurisdictional participants, salt river project agricultural improvement and power district, the Western Area Power Administration and Southwest Transmission Cooperative, inc. westconnect is designed to manage the operation of virtually all of the transmission assets in the southwestern portion of the United States. This paper overviews the current system operation plans, operation differences under SMD, the western standard market and status.

Keywords

design engineering; market research; planning; power markets; project management; public utilities; FERC-jurisdictional public utilities; SMD; United State; current system operation plan; nonjurisdictional participants; operation difference; power district; salt river project agricultural improvement; transmission asset; westconnect design; westconnect operations; western market; western standard market; Acceleration; Asset management; Control systems; Costs; Monitoring; Potential well; Proposals; Rivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2003, IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7989-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2003.1270971

Filename

1270971