Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative 2.0 Plenary Group Meeting April 18, 2016 Sacramento, CA Thomas Carr Western Interstate Energy Board TEPPC’s Resource Options Cases for RETI 2.0
TEPPC’s “Resource Options Cases” Meeting Purpose: Exploration renewables resources that could help meet California’s long-term greenhouse gas reduction and renewable energy goals TEPPC’s Resource Option Cases Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) Transmission Expansion Planning Policy Committee (TEPPC) performs Interconnection-wide transmission planning In , TEPPC modeled a set of cases assuming 12,000 GWh of renewable energy are added to the grid to meet higher loads and RPS requirements across the West in the study year Known as the 2022 “Resource Options Cases” 2
Data from Western Renewable Energy Zone (WREZ) project 3
Western Transmission Paths 4
Key Paths 5 P49 East of River P45 West of River P66 COI P65 PDCI P8 MT to NW P19 Bridger P27 IPP P18 MT to ID
PC20 Southwest 6
PC20 Southwest transmission Expansion Case Centennial West 7 P49 East of River P45 West of River Centennial West
PC21 Wyoming 8
PC20 Wyoming Transmission 9
PC22 Montana 10
PC20 Montana Transmission Expansion Cases 11 Path 8 Upgrade MISTI- SWIP
PC23 Northwest 12
PC23 Northwest Transmission Expansion Cases 13 BC to WA projects
PC24 Basin 14
PC24 Basin Transmission Expansion Cases 15
PC25 Colorado 16
PC25 Colorado Transmission 17
Synopsis of the cases 18
Summary of cost analysis 19
Questions? Thomas Carr Western Interstate Energy Board