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Helping to keep the lights on,
businesses running
and communities strong'
Building the Alaska Railbelt Transco:
a Working Session of the City Council
Seward, Alaska
Eric Myers
Manager, Business Development
February 22, 2016
emyers@atcllc.com
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Overview
• About ATC
• What is a Transco?
— Why consider a Transco?
— Other examples
— Conversations underway in the Railbelt
• Key Considerations:
— Costs and Benefits
— Practical Considerations
— Analyses Pending
• Timeline
• Questions
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American Transmission Company
• First multi -state stand-alone
transmission utility in the U.S.
• Formed in 2001
• Privately -held
• 28 owners include
investor -owned, municipal and
cooperative utilities
• Growth since formation
• $500M in assets in 2001
• Over $313 in assets in 2012
• Own and operate 9,440 miles
of transmission
• 515 substations
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What is a Transco?
• Transmission -only utility
• Owned by other utilities
• Operates, Maintains, Improves transmission network
• Allocates costs regionally (flat rate for transmission)
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Why form Transcos?
• Address regional needs
• Share cost, project risks
• Integrated operation
• Facilitate economic dispatch
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Other Examples
• VELCO
• ITC
• Western
• National Grid
• CleanLine
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Conversations Underway
• Identifying Benefits, Cost Allocation, and Implementation
• Governance, Operational Structure
• Two progress reports with the RCA (September,
December 2016)
• Analyses support both Transco and USO evaluation
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Analysis Underway
• Establishing "business as usual" cost of energy
• Identifying & quantifying improved economic dispatch
• Identifying potential changes to transmission network
— Reliability improvements
— Improving economic dispatch
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Timeline
• December 2014: Establish Transco Guiding Principles
• January 2015 Form Working Group of subject matter
experts to work on key analytic and deliberative tasks
• Q3-Q4: Provide progress reports to RCA
• Q1-Q2 2016: Complete core economic analyses
• Q2 2016: Prepare initial proposals for evaluation by
partnering utilities
• Q3-Q4 2016: Complete evaluation by partners
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Helping to keep the lights on,
businesses running
and communities strong
Building the Alaska Railbelt Transco:
a Working Session of the City Council
Seward, Alaska
Eric Myers
Manager, Business Development
February 22, 2016 atcllc.com
emyers@atcllc.com
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