Transmission Matters

The establishment of an accessible renewable energy transmission highway throughout the U.S. has created significant challenges for electric utilities, unregulated utility subsidiaries, owners of renewable energy projects, merchant power project developers and large electricity end-users. The ongoing formation of Independent System Operators (“ISO”), and Regional Transmission Organizations (“RTO”) has created a host of new ground rules and procedures for purchasing and selling renewable energy through the transmission grid and newly developed Competitive Renewable Energy Zones ("CREZ") for transmission corridors. Numerous issues exist today concerning the physical and transactional aspects of transmission access by third party users from local interconnection facilities to movement of renewable energy over longer transmission paths. Members of the Firm have extensive experience in assisting clients in successfully meeting the challenges of the evolving transmission highway and the interconnection requirements associated with the take off of renewable energy projects.

• Interconnection Requirements – Evaluation and assistance in the development of interconnection agreement for open access transmission service and project power off take.
• Congestion Management Pricing – Evaluation and analysis of congestion management pricing and a determination of the effects on project take off for remote markets.
• Congestion Management Hedging – Determination of the appropriate level and price of physical and or financial transmission rights end users or generators should hold to hedge congestion management costs.

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