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SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE INFORMATIONAL HEARING: Electricity Outlook – Summer 2005 and Beyond February 22, 2005. James Shetler – Assistant General Manager Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Expanded SMUD Control Area.
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SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEEINFORMATIONAL HEARING: Electricity Outlook – Summer 2005 and BeyondFebruary 22, 2005 James Shetler – Assistant General Manager Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Expanded SMUD Control Area • The expanded SMUD control area includes the loads and most resources and transmission of SMUD, Western, Redding, Roseville, and the Bureau of Reclamation • All WECC and NERC requirements are met by SMUD control area • Individual load serving entities (LSE’s) meet their load obligations and contribute to control area reserve and regulation requirements
Expanded SMUD Control Area • LSE’s provide load and resource forecast to SMUD as control area operator • SMUD calculates loads, resources, reserve and regulation requirement for entire control area • LSE’s contribute their share of control area reserves and regulation • SMUD maintains interchange, approves tags, implements curtailments and supports frequency with adjacent control areas • All schedules are tagged and all surplus transmission is posted on Westtrans OASIS by each LSE
Expanded SMUD Control Area • Load Forecast and Balancing Procedure • Load forecasts and resource planning processes conducted by each LSE are reviewed and compiled annually by the control area operator to ensure reliability requirements are met • Generation and purchases optimized to match load, reserve and regulation requirements • Day ahead load forecast and matching with generation and purchases done by each LSE • Control Area compiles all LSE daily submittals, calculates daily load resource balance, control area interchange, and optimizes other reliability parameters
Expanded SMUD Control Area • Resource planning and procurement • LSE’s in SMUD Control Area responsible to plan and procure their own resources to meet their own loads • Load forecasts done at least 5 years out and resources are built or bought sufficiently in advance to ensure reliability is met and and cost risk is managed • 90 percent of all resources needed for annual peak load are in place by October of prior year; remainder by April of current year