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<br /> <br />Section 2 <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />toward transmission access, transmission pricing, and the structure of the entire electric <br />industry. <br /> <br />2.4.2 FERC ORDER 888 AND 889 <br /> <br />On April 26, 1996 FERC issued orders 888 and 8.89 concerning open transmission access <br />on the nation's electrical grid. Order 888 addresses equal access to the transmission grid <br />for all wholesale buyers and sellers, transmission pricing, and the recovery of stranded <br />costs. Stranded costs are the investments mad~ by utilities under the regulated <br />environment that may not be recoverable in ma!.-ket-based rates in a competitive <br />environment. Order 889 requires jurisdictional utilities that own or qperate transmission <br />facilities to establish electronic systems to share. information about their available <br />transmission capacities. In response to these rulemakings, utilities are proposing to form <br />Independent System Operators (ISO) to operate the transmission grid, form regional <br />transmission groups, and develop open access sarne-tiple information systems (OASIS) to <br />inform all competitors of the available capacity on their lines. Although not all parts of <br />these FERC Orders apply directly to Western and the other PMAs, Western plans to <br />comply with the principles of the Orders. 10 <br /> <br />2.4.2,1 OPEN ACCESS SAME-TIME INFORMATION SYSTEMS <br /> <br />Activity in 1996 and early 1997 centered around es~blishing Open Access Same-time <br />Information Systems (OASIS), also known as Real-Time Information Networks (RIN) or <br />Transmission Systetn Information Networks (TSIN),: as outlined in FERC Order 889. <br />FERC requires that electric utilities provide all trll11Smission customers, including the <br />transmission owner or controller, simultaneous acqess to transmission and ancillary <br />services through an OASIS that would operate under industry-wide standards. Western's <br />Desert Southwest customer service region has established an OASIS which the CRSP <br />Customer Service Center will use to post the availability of CRSP transmission facilities <br />and ancillary services. <br /> <br />2.4.2.2 REGIONAL TRANSMISSION GROUPS <br /> <br />Regional Transmission Groups (RTG) are groups! of utilities and power providers <br />established to coordinate regional transmission issue~ and to comply with FERC Order <br />888. Western has joined two Regional Transmission Associations (RTA) that are subject to <br />FERC regulation and intend to comply with the FERC Order 888. Western also plans to <br />coordinate the planning oflarge transmission system additions through these groups. <br /> <br />The CRSP Customer Service Center is one of the customer service regions of Western <br />. which is a member of the Western RTA (WRTA) and the Southwest RTA (SWRTA), within <br />the Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC) r~gion.lI Western's customer service <br />regions are developing their respective comparability: tariffs for filing with WRTA. In <br />developing these tariffs, the FERC pro-forma tariffs will be used as a model. <br /> <br />2-14 Western Area Power Administration <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />March 1998 <br />