1. Joel Bladow – Tri-State G & T
Mountain West Transmission Group Panel Discussion
Joel Bladow – Tri-State G & T
Midwest Electric Consumers Association Annual Meeting
December 7, 2016

2. Organized Market Status – 2012
Establishing an Energy Imbalance Market in the West was “just around the corner”
California was leading the charge
Xcel Energy was looking hard to join something
WAPA, Xcel, Basin, and Tri-State met to discuss options for the Rocky Mountain region

3. What your neighbors do really matters!

4. Where do you start? TRANSMISSION ENERGY MARKET FULL MARKET
Develop a full day-a-head market
ENERGY MARKET
Build a real-time energy market
TRANSMISSION
Foundation for the Market

5. Building the transmission foundation
How do you pay for the existing system costs while removing pancaked charges?
What facilities are included
License plate or postage stamp
Cost shifts and benefit gains – by whom
How do you share the costs of system improvements?
Evaluate benefits
Defined voltage level allocations

6. Organized Market Status 2012

7. Current market status

8. Projected markets 2017 ?

9. Mountain West Transmission Group – Getting Down to Business
After almost two years of meetings among the original group, participation is expanded
The expanded group has meet over 60 times in the past couple of years to develop the framework
A Request for Information was issued with responses to perform various services to; SPP, CISO, MISO, and PJM

10. Mountain West Tariff Transmission Owners PSCo Black Hills
Platte River Power Authority
WAPA - LAP and CRSP
Tri-State G&T
Colorado Springs Utility
Basin Electric

11. California ISO - CAISO Established 1997
CAISO market replaced market run by CA PX
ISO status 2008
Staff: 588
Annual Budget $206 million
Open Access Tariff - 2,736 pages

12. Southwest Power Pool - SPP
Established in 1941
Approved as RTO 2004
Energy Imbalance Market 2005
Full Energy Market 2014
Staff: 598
Annual Budget $182 million
Open Access Tariff - 5,533 pages

13. Midcontinent ISO - MISO
Established 1997
Energy Market 2005
Ancillary Services Market 2009
Staff: ~ 900
Annual Budget $283 million
Open Access Tariff - 6,123 pages

14. Mountain West status
Development of a common tariff is close to completion
Market impact studies are being jointly conducted by the participants
All participants are evaluating the pros/cons of participation based on the work done to date
Anticipate an early 2017 decision on proceeding.