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WECC PCC Meeting

March 7, 2008

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Members

• Avista• Bonneville Power Administration• Chelan County PUD• Cowlitz County PUD• Grant County PUD• Puget Sound Energy• Seattle City Light• Snohomish County PUD• Tacoma Power

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Where We are Now

• First year of operation:– Grew company to ten full-time employees.– Permanent office space – Two programs in operation (Planning &

Expansion and developmental Reliability)– Another program, OASIS, about to activate.

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• Goal is a coordinated northwest-wide transmission expansion plan developed in an open and transparent forum.

• Covers the next 10 years• Initial assessment to be completed in April• Draft Plan to be completed in December

Biennial Plan

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• Puget Sound Area Study Team– Addressing concerns that the Puget Sound Area transmission

system may not be able to simultaneously meet both local customer reliability needs and Canadian transfer requirements.

• Northern Mid-Columbia Study– About to be initiated

Two Focused Study Efforts

Other ColumbiaGrid Initiatives

• OASIS

• Redispatch

• Visibility Improvements

• Outage Coordination

• Common Queue

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