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Opportunities for Collaboration

Opportunities for Collaboration. May 1, 2006. Northwest Independent Power Producers Coalition. Utah Association of Energy Users. Agenda Items. Overview of Northwest Independent Power Producers Coalition (NIPPC) Opportunities for Collaboration Questions & Discussions. NIPPC Membership.

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Opportunities for Collaboration

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  1. Opportunities for Collaboration May 1, 2006 Northwest Independent Power Producers Coalition Utah Association of Energy Users

  2. Agenda Items • Overview of Northwest Independent Power Producers Coalition (NIPPC) • Opportunities for Collaboration • Questions & Discussions

  3. NIPPC Membership Full Members • TransAlta Energy Marketing (Centralia & Big Hanaford power plants) • Suez Energy North America (Chehalis power plant) • Calpine Corporation (Goldendale & Hermiston power plants) • EPCOR (Fredrickson power plant) • NESCO (Sumas 1 cogeneration power plant) • Transcanada • BP Energy • Constellation Control and Dispatch Associate Members • Davis Wright Tremaine • Heller Ehrman • Sea Breeze Power Corp. • Van Ness Feldman

  4. NIPPC’s Mission Statement NIPPC will actively pursue informal and formal (i.e., laws, policies, rules and regulations) avenues and forums to ensure a competitive electric power supply marketplace in the Pacific Northwest.

  5. NIPPC’s Principles NIPPC supports a fully competitive electric power supply marketplace in the Pacific Northwest based on the following principles: • Ensure that adequacy and reliability of electric supply is supported and not compromised. • Ensure that all market and transmission access, pricing, and regulatory structures allow all market participants to operate under the same terms and conditions in the regional marketplace. • Ensure efficient and transparent pricing signals are sent to all market participants facilitating investment in electric power supply and transmission infrastructure. • Ensure cost effective environmental, safety and security best practices are put in place and maintained.

  6. NIPPC’s Current Activities • Intervenor & advocate in response to BPA’s reactive power tariff take back • Advocate for solutions to congestion on BPA’s CSM Steering Committee • Filed comments in DOE’s EPAct Section 1221 • Intervenor in FERC’s Order 888-889 NOI • Promoting concept of rate-based IOU “call option” for generators • Organizing effort to reform WA natural gas tax • Conducting overall public relations/constituency building for generators • Advocated for Grid West discontinued

  7. Utah, Wyoming & Idaho IndustrialEnergy Consumer Activities in 2006 • PacifiCorp Rate Case • PacifiCorp 2006 Integrated Resource Plan • Power Cost Adjustment Mechanism • PacifiCorp RFP for 2011 Resources • MEHC Acquisition • Multi-State Process • Avoided Costs • Energy Tax Issues • 2006 General and Interim Legislative Sessions

  8. Common Activities • PGE Competition Rules • Utah Debt Equivalency – Sempra Assistance • GRID West Advocacy • Healthy Computation – MECH Acquisition • UAE Competitive Roles & RFP’s

  9. Major Issues in Western Energy Markets • Western Transmission Interconnection – WECC Expansion • Coal – PC vs. Supercritical vs. IGCC • Resource Procurement – Coal – Natural Gas – • Renewables/Wind • Frontier & Transwest Transmission Lines • California Greenhouse Gas Policies • Price Relationships in Energy Markets – Oil to Natural Gas to Electricity

  10. Immediate Expansion Opportunities • Push for fair treatment & sensible planning at WECC • Insist upon on Transco-led development of Frontier Line • Protect PURPA; fight PacifiCorp’s market power • Push for compensation of ancillary services at FERC, state commissions • Contest at state commissions PacifiCorp’s push to self-build resources • Intensify advocacy for least-cost, competitively procured power generation

  11. Advantages of Collaboration • Enhance credibility of competitive power’s value in face of retrenchment • Reinforce political influence by extending geographic reach • Raise visibility of operating cogenerators & IPPs’ value to region • Buttress arguments for cost-effective, sensible transmission development • Strengthen representation at key venues: FERC, WECC, NGA, BPA • Engage PacifiCorp across its entire system

  12. Now…let’s discuss…

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