Transcript PSCO, PRPA, BHCE Joint Dispatch Agreement

PSCO, PRPA, BHCE Joint Dispatch Agreement
October 30, 2014 FERC OATT filing: Joint Open Acess Transmission Tariff
Filing *
• centralized, coordinated, intra-hour dispatch system for
generation
• overall goal: efficient and lower cost generation, serve native
loads
• cost savings centralized energy dispatch within the PSCo BAA
• filing tariffs to provide non-firm transmission service
• uses non-firm ATC (available transmission capacity) within
operating hour otherwise unused
• “analogous to an energy imbalance market or other energy
market, albeit on a small scale”
*http://www.xcelenergy.com/staticfiles/xe/Corporate/Corporate%20P
DFs/2014-10-30_Joint_Dispatch_Filing.pdf