Transmission Adequacy Guidelines Development

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Transmission Adequacy Guidelines Development One of the challenges facing the electric utility industry today is how to balance reliability, economic, environmental and the other public purpose objectives to optimize transmission and resources to meet the needs of the region. These critical issues must be addressed to move the Northwest electrical system into the 21st century. BPA is initiating the development of transmission adequacy standards because BPA needs to find a better way to determine how much transmission it needs, the solutions to be deployed, and the criteria to be applied to guide prudent investment decisions consistent with its obligations. BPA is participating in a regional effort, hosted by the Northwest Power Pool, to develop guidelines that would would be voluntarily adopted by Northwest utilities by January 2006.