{"id":4901,"date":"2013-07-02T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2013-07-02T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:48:09","slug":"jcsp-big-picture-who-pays-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=4901","title":{"rendered":"JCSP Big Picture – who pays? WE DO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Transmission — it’s all connected.\u00c2\u00a0 In looking at the Minnesota rulemaking, and the existing and proposed rules that utilize the word “regional,” I’m thinking about big picture stuff, the big proposals in the wings, and that Joint Coordinated System Plan (JCSP) map sure presents a big picture. For some reason, I’ve not been able to find the full JCSP report until recently:<\/p>\n

JCSP_Report_Volume_1<\/a><\/p>\n

JCSP_Report_Volume_2<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who cares about JCSP?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, WE’D better care, because look who’s paying for the transmission build-out (p. 68 of Vol. 1):<\/p>\n

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Look at the numbers for Midwest ISO, a $-10,293, or for MAPP, a $12,292, that’s a COST, not a savings.\u00c2\u00a0 MISO and MAPP get nominal production cost savings and massive load COSTS.\u00c2\u00a0 This is not news, but is worth repeating as we discuss “regional.”\u00c2\u00a0 And another take with the same take-away of big costs for MISO and MAPP customers, used by our good friends at\u00c2\u00a0 AWEA<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to promote this transmission buildout in their flyer called “Green Power Transmission and Consumer Savings” (flyer below):<\/p>\n

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Read the whole thing:<\/p>\n

AWEA_Transmission_and_Consumer_Savings<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a deal, eh?<\/p>\n

Look what AWEA has been advocating to make this happen:<\/p>\n

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Federal Siting<\/em><\/div>\n
In addition to regional planning and cost allocation,<\/em><\/div>\n
substantial reform of the transmission siting process is<\/em><\/div>\n
required to meet national renewable energy goals. The<\/em><\/div>\n
most effective model is the siting authority that was given<\/em><\/div>\n
to FERC over interstate natural gas pipelines. For green<\/em><\/div>\n
power superhighways, the extra-high-voltage facilities<\/em><\/div>\n
defined in the regional plans would be subject to FERC<\/em><\/div>\n
approval and permitting. Separate siting approval at the<\/em><\/div>\n
state level would not be required. FERC would act as the<\/em><\/div>\n
lead agency for purposes of coordinating all applicable<\/em><\/div>\n
federal authorizations and environmental reviews with other<\/em><\/div>\n
affected agencies.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Check their “Policy Solutions on p. 3:<\/div>\n

AWEA – Green Power Superhighways<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, this is not new news, I remember fighting over this with the Waltons\/Wind on the Wires in 2005, their agenda was all about increasing federal authority and decreasing state authority… and of course they’re not part of this rulemaking, there are NO, NONE, NOT ONE enviro group participating in this transmission rulemaking docket.<\/div>\n
The point of JCSP is to increase power flows along those red pathways — who benefits and who loses:<\/div>\n
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There’s been little talk of JCSP lately, but given the rate of return for transmission construction, it’s hard to believe it’s not lying in wait.<\/div>\n
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And if it’s not all about coal, why is this the case (Vol. 1, p. 190):<\/div>\n
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Transmission — it’s all connected.\u00c2\u00a0 In looking at the Minnesota rulemaking, and the existing and proposed rules that utilize the word “regional,” I’m thinking about big picture stuff, the big proposals in the wings, and that Joint Coordinated System Plan …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[155,381,110,843,35,83],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports-documents","tag-coal","tag-cost-allocation","tag-jcsp","tag-joint-coodinated-system-plan","tag-powerline","tag-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}