Welcome to Southwest Transmission Cooperative, Inc
Welcome
to the new
Southwest
Transmission Cooperative, Inc.
OASIS
site.
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Notice of SWTC and TEP Stakeholder Meeting for Transmission Planning 12/10/2009. Details in Transmission Planning Folder at left.
It's official, July 1, 2009, the WestConnect Regional Transmission product is available.
Need Transmission with NO pancaked rates?*
WestConnect members are making it easier for you to move your energy!
Go to OASIS, click on the WC Wizard, enter the POR and POD and find the
Hourly Non-firm transmission service available at the Regional Rate.
Select the service you wish to buy and off you go.
Before you buy and use the Regional Transmission product, make sure you’ve done your homework . . .
•Have you executed the new, Non-Firm Annex A service agreement with all the
WestConnect Pricing Experiment Regional TPs (AZPS, EPE, NEVP, PNM,
PSCO, SWTC, TSGT, WACM, & WALC)? Check with your regular contracts
person at each TP to obtain the new service agreement.
•Have you established creditworthiness with each Regional TP?
•Have you obtained the service through the OASIS/WC Wizard button?
•Have you Pre-confirmed the reservation?
•Have you followed the proper E-Tagging procedures for all entities involved in the path?
A few things to remember along the way . . .
•Only Hourly, Non-Firm service is available with the Regional Rate
•Sorry, but no renewals, resales, or redirects are allowed.
•All Regional TPs in the path have to approve the reservation before going to a
CONFIRMED state . . . so be patient. . .
•You can only request the regional service through the WC Wizard interface on OASIS.
•Confirmed TSR will have a $.09/MWh administrative fee added on your bill, in
addition to the cost of the transmission.
* Losses and scheduling fees for each regional TP will still be charged.
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Notice of SWTC and TEP Stakeholder Meeting for Transmission Planning 12/09/2008. Details in Transmission Planning Folder at left.
October 16, 2008
“On October 15, 2008 the Palo Verde (PV)-Pinal West (PW) Project went into commercial operation. The participants of that project have posted this new path to their OASIS. The electrical districts do not operate an OASIS and inquires directed to the electrical districts should be directed to Tom Martin at tmartin@ed2.com for ED2 and Dennis Delaney at dld@krsaline.com for ED3 and ED4.”
October 14, 2008
“On October 15, 2008 the Palo Verde (PV)-Pinal West (PW) Project will be put into commercial operation. The PV-PW Project consists of a 500kV line that connects the Palo Verde area to the Pinal West Switchyard. The Pinal West Switchyard is located near Mobile, Arizona. The PV-PW Project has 6 Participants: Electrical District 2 (ED2), Electrical District 3 (ED3), Electrical District 4 (ED4), Salt River Project (SRP), Southwest Transmission Cooperative (SWTC) and Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP). The Total Transfer Capability (TTC) of the new line is 500 MW and will be split amongst the participants per their Ownership Interest. On October 15, 2008, no earlier than 0900 MST, the PV-PW Project Participants, will post the new path.
Notice of SWTC and TEP Stakeholder Meeting for Transmission Planning 06/05/2008. Details in Transmission Planning Folder at left.
01/28/2008 *** All reservations with an SWTC POR of Greenlee345 MUST be received at SWTC's Point of Connection of TEP's Greenlee 345 kV bus. SWTC currently has zero ATC across TEP's Greenlee 345 kV bus from PNM or EPE.
Outages affecting SWTC transmission scheduling rights on "Non-SWTC" OASIS transmission segments and/or SWTC outages greater than 30 days in the future will be posted in the "Notices" section for registered users to view.
** 12/21/2006 - 07/31/2007 Posted prices for Hourly through Monthly transmission service now reflect a rate including mandatory Ancillary Services "SC" and "RV" **
** 08/01/2007 SWTC has reverted back to the methodology of posting transmission prices separate of Ancillary Services. Ancillary Service Schedules 1 (SC) and 2 (RV) are still required for a transmission purchase as before, but are NOT included in the posted transmission price. **