Electricity Transmission Access: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, May 24, 1989, Volume 4 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American Electric American Electric Power benefits bidding bulk electric systems bulk power system changes cogeneration CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Considerations for Increasing contract control area cooperation coordinated planning cost customers demand DISBROW Eastern Interconnection economic dispatch efficiency electric power industry Electric Power Wheeling electric utility electric utility industry emergency environmental existing Federal Federal Power Act FERC FERC's GENT grid impacts implemented incentive increased competition institutional interchange interconnected issues LIBRARY OF CONGRESS load Long Lake Energy long-term loop flow maintain megawatts monopoly NERC non-utility obligation OTA report PENN planning and operating plants potential power supply pricing problems procedures proposals Public Power Public Utility purchase PURPA rates reactive power regional regulation regulatory requirements retail scenarios schedules suppliers technical Technological Considerations Technology tion transactions transmis transmission access transmission capacity transmission facilities transmission lines transmission network transmission service transmission system uncertainty users utility's voltage Wheeling and Dealing
Popular passages
Page 10 - NOTE: OTA appreciates and is grateful for the valuable assistance and thoughtful critiques provided by the advisory panel members. The panel does not, however, necessarily approve, disapprove, or endorse this report. OTA assumes full responsibility for the report and the accuracy of its contents.
Page 24 - The greatest challenge to increasing competition in generation and expanding transmission access is maintaining the high degree of coordinated planning and operation among bulk power system components. If coordination is not addressed with appropriate care, the system may experience increasing costs and decreasing reliability.
Page 49 - Maintaining reliability under competition also poses uncertainty. Most of us take the reliability of electric power for granted, but it doesnt happen by accident. It has required investments in equipment and manpower and emergency assistance to other utilities that at times have gone beyond legal requirements. Utilities have a deeply ingrained ethos that interruption of service should be minimized..
Page 43 - Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, the association of the Nation's investorowned electric utilities. Member companies of EEI generate approximately 78 percent of the power produced in this country and serve approximately 74 percent of all ultimate customers.
Page 72 - Attachment to Testimony by William McCollam, Jr., Edison Electric institute, Before the United States House of Representatives, Energy and Power Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee, September 22, 1987, p. 15. Vertically integrated electric utilities are responsible for providing a substantial portion of the electricity sold in the United States. Utilities receive a retail franchise granting them the right to provide retail service in a particular area in exchange for the obligation...
Page 35 - In addition, several recent epidemiologic studies have suggested an association between exposure to electric and magnetic fields and cancer. While these epidemiologic studies are controversial and incomplete, they do provide a basis for concern about effects from exposure. The research results to date are complex and inconclusive. Many experiments have found no differences in biological systems that have been exposed to fields and those that have not. It still is not possible to demonstrate that...
Page 8 - However, system reliability is as yet untested for a situation where a large proportion of components are operated under contract rather than under direct ownership of a utility committed to meeting demand under all conditions.
Page 51 - For example, given the tremendous uncertainty in the power industry, anticipating all the terms and contingencies that a contract should cover requires extensive effort. Even with carefully crafted and flexible contracts, unexpected events outside the scope of the contract may occur.
Page 25 - Electricity. the process by which a utility meets variations in electricity demand by preparing generating units for operation under unit commitment schedules, which reflect forecasted load changes over daily, weekly, and seasonal cycles, plus an allowance for random variations.
Page 16 - Competing companies are less likely to cooperate to this degree, and it is questionable how much joint R&D will continue. Similarly, utilities have fostered emerging technologies that they believed to be in the national interest but that entailed considerable initial economic risk. Competitive generators may be less likely to take such a long-term perspective. UNCERTAINTIES One notable feature of the debate over competition is the lack of data and analysis. Experience with competition in the electric...