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1NERC’s proposal is currently pending before the 

Commission in the rulemaking: Modeling, Data, 

and Analysis Reliability Standards, Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking, Docket No. RM14–7–000; 79 

FR 36,269 (June 26, 2014). 

2See, e.g., the December 18, 2014 status report 

filed by NAESB in Docket Nos. RM05–5–000 and 

RM14–7–000. 

3See, e.g.; Preventing Undue Discrimination and 

Preference in Transmission Service, Order No. 890, 

FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,241, at P 68, order on 

reh’g, Order No. 890–A, FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 

31,261 (2007), order on reh’g, Order No. 890–B, 123 

FERC ¶ 61,299 (2008), order on reh’g, Order No. 

890–C, 126 FERC ¶ 61,228, order on clarification, 

Order No. 890–D, 129 FERC ¶ 61,126 (2009); 

Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Calculation 

of Available Transfer Capability, Capacity Benefit 

Margins, Transmission Reliability Margins, Total 

Transfer Capability, and Existing Transmission 

Commitments and Mandatory Reliability Standards 

for the Bulk-Power System, Order No. 729, 129 

FERC ¶ 61,155 (2009), order on clarification, Order 

No. 729–A, 131 FERC ¶ 61,109 (2010), order on 

reh’g, Order No. 729–B, 132 FERC ¶ 61,027 (2010); 

et al. 

4See Order No. 890 (supra) P 2, P 193–196, etc. 

5 Mandatory Reliability Standards for the BulkPower System, Order No. 693, 72 FR 16416 (Apr. 

4, 2007), FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,242, at P 1022 

(2007), order on reh’g, Order No. 693–A, 120 FERC 

¶ 61,053 (2007), P 1013. 

6See Order No. 693 (supra). 

7 129 FERC ¶ 61,162 

8 Modeling, Data, and Analysis Reliability 

Standards, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 147 

FERC ¶ 61,208 (2014). 

set forth their evidentiary basis. Any 

filing made by an intervenor must be 

accompanied by a proof of service on all 

persons listed in the service list 

prepared by the Commission in this 

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 

385.2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02292 Filed 2–4–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD15–5–000] 

Available Transfer Capability 

Standards for Wholesale Electric 

Transmission Services; Supplemental 

Notice of Workshop on Available 

Transfer Capability Standards 

As announced in a Notice issued on 

December 30, 2014, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

staff will hold a workshop on Thursday, 

March 5, 2015 to discuss standards for 

calculating Available Transfer 

Capability (ATC) for wholesale electric 

transmission services. The workshop 

will be held in the Commission Meeting 

Room at the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. It will 

commence at 8:45 a.m. and conclude at 

4:15 p.m. This workshop is free of 

charge and open to the public. 

Commission members may participate 

in the workshop. 

The agenda for this workshop is 

attached. 

Those who plan to attend the 

workshop are encouraged to complete 

the registration form located at: https:// 

www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/

03-05-15-form.asp. There is no 

registration deadline. 

Those wishing to participate in the 

technical sessions should submit 

nominations no later than close of 

business on February 6, 2015 online at: 

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

registration/03-05-15-speaker-form.asp. 

Transcripts of the workshop will be 

available for a fee from Ace-Federal 

Reporters, Inc. (202–347–3700 or 1– 

800–336–6646). Additionally, there will 

be a free Webcast of the workshop. The 

Webcast will allow persons to listen to 

the workshop but not participate. 

Anyone with Internet access who wants 

to listen to the workshop can do so by 

navigating to the Calendar of Events at 

www.ferc.gov, locating the technical 

workshop in the Calendar, and clicking 

on the Webcast link. The Capitol 

Connection provides technical support 

for the Webcast and offers the option of 

listening to the workshop via phonebridge for a fee. If you have any 

questions, visit 

www.CapitolConnection.org or call 703– 

993–3100. 

While this workshop is not convened 

for the purpose of discussing specific 

cases, the workshop may address 

matters that are at issue in the following 

pending Commission proceeding: North 

American Electric Reliability 

Corporation, Docket No. RM14–7–000. 

Commission workshops 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 

1–866–208–3372 (voice) or 202–502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a FAX to 202–208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For further information on this 

workshop, please contact: 

Logistical Information 

Sarah McKinley, Office of External 

Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502–8368, 

sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov. 

Technical Information 

Christopher Young, Office of Energy 

Policy and Innovation, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502– 

6403, christopher.young@ferc.gov. 

Legal Information 

Richard Wartchow, Office of the 

General Counsel, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502– 

8744 richard.wartchow@ferc.gov. 

Dated: January 30, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

Available Transfer Capability 

Standards for Wholesale Electric 

Transmission Services 

Staff-Led Workshop 

Docket No.: AD15–5–000; March 5, 

2015; Agenda 

This workshop is being convened to 

discuss actions the Commission could 

take to ensure that transmission 

providers continue to calculate and post 

available transfer capability (ATC) in a 

manner that ensures nondiscriminatory 

access to wholesale electric 

transmission services. This workshop is 

prompted by the filing by the North 

American Electric Reliability 

Corporation (NERC) proposing changes 

to its ATC-related reliability standards,1

and the initiative to replace some of 

these standards with similarly focused 

business practice standards to be 

developed by the North American 

Energy Standards Board (NAESB).2

The workshop will address the 

consistent calculation and transparency 

of ATC to ensure continued access to 

the grid by transmission customers on a 

nondiscriminatory basis, as articulated 

in Order No. 890 and other Commission 

orders.3 In Order No. 890, the 

Commission required public utilities to 

work through NERC to develop 

consistent methodologies for ATC 

calculation.4 In Order No. 693,5 the 

Commission approved several reliability 

standards related to ATC while also 

directing NERC to prospectively modify 

them.6 In Order No. 729, the 

Commission approved six reliability 

standards that address ATC, making 

them mandatory and enforceable; 

concurrently the Commission issued 

Order No. 676–E, which incorporated by 

reference in its regulations certain 

related business practice standards 

adopted by the Wholesale Electric 

Quadrant of NAESB.7 Subsequently, 

NERC has proposed to retire six 

standards and replace them with a 

single modified standard focused on 

reliability issues.8 At the workshop, 

Commission staff will seek input on the 

appropriate mechanisms to ensure the 

continued transparency and consistency 


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of ATC calculation methodologies, and 

posting of ATC on OASIS. 

8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Welcome and 

Opening Remarks 

9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Session 1: 

Overview and Context of ATC 

Determination and Posting 

Session 1 will explore the role of 

consistent and transparent ATC 

determination and posting in ensuring 

open access to the interstate 

transmission system. The goal of the 

session will be to understand the types 

of high-level decisions that need to be 

made to develop ATC standards and 

discuss the proper venue for making 

those high-level decisions. Participants 

should address, among other things: (1) 

The extent to which the currentlyeffective standards have proven 

effective for meeting the needs of the 

industry and the Commission, (2) in 

general, whether the ATC information 

currently available to transmission 

customers is sufficient and sufficiently 

transparent, (3) the appropriate level of 

detail or specificity necessary for any 

rules or standards to ensure 

transparency and consistency and the 

elimination of transmission provider 

discretion in this highly technical topic 

area, and (4) the appropriate 

administrative mechanism or form of 

any rules needed to continue to achieve 

these goals. Participants may also be 

asked to discuss how to distinguish 

reliability concerns from requirements 

necessary to maintain the open access 

assurances required in Order Nos. 890 

and 729. Further, participants may be 

asked to discuss the appropriate forum 

for identifying any gaps or areas of 

ambiguity in Order Nos. 890 and 729 

that should be clarified with respect to 

ATC. Finally, considering that accurate 

ATC determination is important to the 

ultimate assurance of consistency and 

transparency and to minimize the 

discretion of transmission providers in 

calculating ATC, the session may 

address which aspects of any rules 

addressing ATC, such as requirements 

regarding calculations, data inputs or 

frequency of updates, among other 

possible examples, are most important 

for the Commission to consider. 

10:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m. Break 

10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Session 2: 

Specific ATC Topics and Requirements 

Session 2 will address specific details 

of ATC, its constituent parts, and related 

concepts and the degree to which the 

Commission should include in the pro 

forma OATT or the Commission’s 

regulations requirements addressing 

these details. For example, staff may 

seek information about the level of 

detail required in the ‘‘ATC 

Implementation Document’’ (ATCID) to 

ensure transparency, the relationship 

between a transmission provider’s 

planning of operations and the 

calculation of Total Transfer Capability 

(TTC) or ATC for the same time periods, 

and the computation and use of 

Capacity Benefit Margin and 

Transmission Reliability Margin. 

Possible discussion items could also 

include the determination of TTC and 

Existing Transmission Commitments 

(ETC), the requirements in the three 

existing ‘‘methodology’’ standards (Area 

Interchange Methodology, Rated System 

Path Methodology, and Flowgate 

Methodology) that establish a basis for 

determining the TTC and ETC 

components of ATC, the 

interrelationship between the NERC 

‘‘MOD A’’ standards and other 

reliability standards, NAESB business 

practice standards, and the 

Commission’s regulations and the 

possible need for information sharing 

between and among transmission 

providers and other entities. For each of 

the discussion items, participants may 

be asked to indicate whether formal 

Commission guidance, in the form of 

pro forma OATT requirements or new 

regulations would help to ensure that 

goals of Order Nos. 890 and 729 are met. 

12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m. Lunch 

1:15 p.m.–2:15 p.m. Session 2, 

Continued 

2:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Break 

2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Session 3: Lessons 

Learned and Opportunities for 

Improvement 

Session 3, in light of NERC’s proposal 

and NAESB efforts to revise standards 

for ATC calculations and transparency, 

will explore what types of changes, if 

any, need to be taken by NERC, NAESB 

and/or the Commission to ensure that 

transmission providers continue to 

calculate and post ATC in a manner that 

ensures nondiscriminatory access to 

wholesale electric transmission services. 

This session will synthesize the 

discussion from the first two sessions to 

explore whether there are changes 

needed, and the level of detail or 

guidance needed, in the Commission’s 

regulations or the pro forma Open 

Access Transmission Tariff. Time 

permitting, there may be a discussion of 

whether there are opportunities to apply 

industry’s experience to date, including 

potential areas for improvement that 

could enhance the consistency of the 

three existing calculation methods, and 

whether the rules addressing ATC could 

be made more efficient, clear or easier 

to comply with than they currently are, 

without compromising open access. 

4:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Closing 

[FR Doc. 2015–02293 Filed 2–4–15; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2211–007] 

Duke Energy Indiana, Inc.; Notice of 

Application Accepted for Filing, 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Protests 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Application Type: Extension of 

license term. 

b. Project No.: 2211–007. 

c. Date Filed: August 18, 2014. 

d. Applicant: Duke Energy Indiana, 

Inc. 

e. Name of Project: Markland 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: Ohio River in Switzerland 

County, Indiana. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r. 

h. Applicant Contact: Tami Styer, 

Duke Energy Corporation, EC12Y, P.O. 

Box 1006 Charlotte, NC 28202, (704) 

382–0293. 

i. FERC Contact: Rebecca Martin, 

(202) 502–6012, Rebecca.Martin@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

motions to intervene, and protests: 

March 2, 2015. 

All documents may be filed 

electronically via the Internet. See, 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

efiling.asp. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. Although the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an 

original and seven copies to: Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 


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