24950 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 81 / Thursday, April 26, 2012 / Notices 

1 Midwest Independent Transmission System 

Operator, Inc., 138 FERC ¶ 61,235 (2012). 

2 Docket No. ER12–678–000 Filing, Tab E, 

Affidavit of David B. Patton. 

3Analysis of Market Results at 1. 

4 Id. at 8. 

reactive power resources, including 

synchronous and asynchronous 

generation resources, transmission 

resources and energy storage resources; 

the design options for and cost of 

installing reactive power equipment at 

the time of interconnection as well as 

retrofitting a resource with reactive 

power equipment; other means by 

which reactive power is currently 

secured such as through self-supply; 

and how a technology that is capable of 

providing reactive power but may not be 

subject to the generation 

interconnection process (e.g., FACTs) 

would be analyzed. The staff and 

participants discussed information on 

methods used to determine the reactive 

power requirements for a transmission 

system and how system impact and 

system planning studies take into 

account changes in technologies 

connected to the system. 

Persons wishing to comment on these 

issues should submit written comments 

to the Commission no later than May 21, 

2012. 

Dated: April 20, 2012. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–10062 Filed 4–25–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Meeting Related to the Transmission 

Planning Activities of the Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc.; Notice of 

Commission Staff Attendance 

The Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission hereby gives notice that 

members of the Commission’s staff may 

attend the following meeting related to 

the transmission planning activities of 

the Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (SPP): 

Strategic Planning Committee Task 

Force on Order 1000 

April 25, 2012. 

9 a.m.–3 p.m. Local Time. 

The above-referenced meeting will be 

held at: OG&E Offices, 321 N. Harvey 

Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73101. 

The above-referenced meeting is open 

to stakeholders. 

Further information may be found at 

www.spp.org. 

The discussions at the meetings 

described above may address matters at 

issue in the following proceedings: 

Docket No. ER09–35–001, Tallgrass 

Transmission, LLC. 

Docket No. ER09–36–001, Prairie Wind 

Transmission, LLC. 

Docket No. ER09–548–001, ITC Great 

Plains, LLC. 

Docket No. ER11–4105–000, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. EL11–34–001, Midwest 

Independent Transmission System 

Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. ER11–3967–002, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER11–3967–003, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER12–1179–000, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

For more information, contact 

Luciano Lima, Office of Energy Markets 

Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at (202) 502–6210 or 

luciano.lima@ferc.gov. 

Dated: April 20, 2012. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–10061 Filed 4–25–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. ER12–678–000; ER12–679– 

000] 

Midwest Independent Transmission, 

System Operator, Inc.; Supplemental 

Notice of Technical Conference 

As announced in the Notice of 

Technical Conference issued on April 4, 

2012, and as required in the 

Commission’s March 30, 2012 order in 

these dockets,1 there will be a technical 

conference in these proceedings on May 

15, 2012 at the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC, Room 3M–2A&B. 

The technical conference will be led by 

staff, and will be open for the public to 

attend. Attendees may register in 

advance at the following Web page: 

https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/ 

registration/midwest-independent-5–15– 

12-form.asp. Advance registration is not 

required, but is encouraged. Parties 

attending in person should still allow 

time to pass through building security 

procedures before the 9:00 a.m. start 

time of the conference. 

The conference will not be webcast, 

but will be accessible via telephone. 

Parties wishing to participate by phone 

should fill out the registration form and 

check the box indicating that they wish 

to participate by conference call, and do 

so no later than 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) 

on Wednesday, May 9. Parties selecting 

this option will receive a confirmation 

email containing a dial-in number and 

a password before the conference. To 

the extent possible, individuals calling 

from the same location share a single 

telephone line. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an email 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

866–208–3372 (voice) or 202–208–1659 

(TTY), or send a FAX to 202–208–2106 

with the required accommodations. 

For further information regarding this 

conference, contact Stephen Pointer at 

stephen.pointer@ferc.gov or 202–502– 

8761, Adam Pollock at 

adam.pollock@ferc.gov or 202–502– 

8458, or Katherine Waldbauer at 

katherine.waldbauer@ferc.gov or 202– 

502–8232. 

I. Questions to be Addressed Prior to 

Technical Conference. The Midwest 

Independent Transmission System 

Operator, Inc. (MISO) and/or Potomac 

Economics, Inc., MISO’s Independent 

Market Monitor (IMM), are requested to 

file written responses to each of the 

questions below by Thursday, May 10, 

2012, so that the responses may be 

discussed at the technical conferences. 

1. Provide monthly information (from 

2009 forward) on how many units were 

committed for VLR and the percentage 

of those units that were committed on 

transmission lines of less than 100 kV. 

Provide information on where in the 

MISO region these VLR units were 

committed. Does MISO expect VLR 

commitments in the future, and if so, 

where? Please explain. 

2. How many VLR units (from 2009 

forward) were economically dispatched? 

3. With regard to the IMM’s testimony 

in Docket No. ER12–678 at ¶ 15–22,2 for 

the period from January 2010 to 

September 2011: 

a. Were VLR units economically 

dispatched during any of these hours? 

Provide data on the number of hours 

VLR units were economically 

dispatched. 

b. Did these units have headroom? If 

so, how many MWs? 

4. MISO states that ‘‘[i]n principle, 

voltage issues would be modeled using 

thermal constraints as a proxy in the 

commitment and dispatch’’ 3 and ‘‘[i]n 

fact, these commitments are made per 

operating procedures and guidelines 

regardless of expected or actual 

deviation volumes.’’ 4

a. Please provide the Operating 

Procedures and guidelines. 


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