> ***Transmission Task Force Report***

-   **Summary of Task Force work plan **

    -   Scope of work

        -   Identify generic barriers to transmission expansion and
            policies to overcome barriers

        -   Identify new transmission needed to support recommendations
            of the CDEAC

            -   For the Western Interconnection, incorporate a CDEAC
                scenario(s) in the ongoing modeling work by SSG-WI

            -   For North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska, use
                existing work by the Midwest ISO

            -   For Kansas, use work by the Southwest Power Pool

            -   For Texas, use work by ERCOT

            -   No proposed analysis for Hawaii or Alaska

            -   Form work groups within the Transmission Task Force for
                the Western and Eastern Interconnections

            -   Iterate with the fuel task forces on the location of new
                generation

        -   Guesstimate transmission needed in the next 25 years (per
            Clean and Diversified Energy resolution)

    -   Schedule

        -   June 20 orientation conference call

        -   Meeting on August 4-5

        -   By November 1 complete a report on generic barriers and
            policies to overcome barriers

        -   For Western Interconnection, by the end of August receive
            generation scenario(s) for modeling by SSG-WI

        -   Complete initial analysis of needed transmission by October

        -   Post-October, await further instructions from the CDEAC

-   **Report on Task Force progress and recommendations**

    -   Task Force held one orientation conference call (6-20)

    -   Staff has had preliminary discussions with SSG-WI and MidWest
        ISO on using their work to estimate transmission needs from
        CDEAC recommendations

-   **Issues for the Quantitative Work Group**

    -   Transmission Task Force assumes that the Quantitative Work
        Group's methodology for fuel task forces to guesstimate
        transmission needs associated with recommendations of fuel task
        forces is acceptable

-   **Issues that may cross over to other fuel task forces**

    -   For the Western Interconnection, where new modeling is underway
        by SSG-WI, the Transmission Task Force will need a generation
        scenario(s) from the CDEAC Integration Subcommittee by August
        which includes the assumed location, size and type of new
        generation. For the other parts of the WGA footprint, no new
        modeling is anticipated and the Transmission Task Force will
        extrapolate transmission needs from existing studies.

    -   Fuel task forces will need to deliver to the Integration
        Subcommittee their first estimates of the location and size of
        new generation by the end of July

-   **Recommendations that require early action from the CDEAC**

    -   None at present

-   **Issues on which the Task Force requires CDEAC guidance. This can
    include scope issues, definitions, or approaches **

    -   Whether the approaches to transmission analysis proposed by the
        Quantitative Work Group and the Transmission Task Force are
        acceptable

        -   Specifically, the Quantitative Work Group's methodology is
            designed to enable each fuel task force to provide some
            information to the CDEAC on transmission needs associated
            with their recommendations. Will that be sufficient to
            enable the CDEAC (and its Integration Subcommittee) to craft
            a scenario(s) for transmission modeling in the Western
            Interconnection?

        -   The Transmission Task Force will identify the transmission
            needs from a portfolio(s) of generation recommendations
            recommended by the Integration Subcommittee and will not
            attempt to attribute transmission costs to each generator
            type. Is that acceptable to the CDEAC?

    -   Will the CDEAC be capable of delivering for modeling in the
        Western Interconnection one or more than one generation scenario
        in August?

    -   Is there a way to provide an iterative process in
        August-September to allow the Transmission Task Force's Western
        Interconnection Work Group to provide information and get rapid
        feedback from the Integration Subcommittee on the location of
        postulated new generation?

    -   Post-October, the CDEAC will need to decide if additional
        transmission analysis is needed.

    -   The Clean and Diversified Energy resolution calls for the CDEAC
        to determine transmission adequacy 25 years into the future
        (e.g., 2030). That is not possible using modeling tools since
        the assumptions about the location of new generation beyond 2015
        are totally speculative. (The location of new generation is the
        major uncertainty in transmission modeling.) An alternative
        approach is to estimate the needed new transmission will need to
        be developed.