Fairness and comparability-guiding principles for RTO transmission expansion planning

Abstract

Summary form only given. The Eastern Interconnection is dividing into Regional Transmission Organizations. These now organizations are naming themselves independent system operators, independent transmission companies, transmission owners, stakeholders, transmission customers and etc. They take the place of the transmission operations and planning segments of integrated electrical utilities. No longer is generation planning function and transmission planning function moving hand-in-hand within a given integrated utility. Now the process has become an open process across the interconnection under the functional control of independent system operators. This presentation discusses the state of reorganization and then near and far term perceptions on how grid expansion is to be accomplished. Who will be the stakeholders, the regulators, the customers, the owners? Who will pay for the expansions? How will reliability be assured?.