Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
November 16, 2009
Jay Morrison
Senior Regulatory Counsel
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
jay.morrison@nreca.coop (703) 907‐5825
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Wholesale
Market
MWH
DR
Bid/
Response
data
Home Automation
Network
On/Off
WHAT’S MISSING IN THIS PICTURE?
y There’s no state jurisdictional entity to:
y Set just and reasonable rates for retail
electricity
y Ensure adequate generating capacity
y Build a balanced and environmentally
sustainable energy portfolio
y Hedge against market abuses and market
volatility for retail consumers
y Build a smart grid that values broad risk
management and operational benefits of
smart grid
MWH
MARKET G&Ts
Distribution
Systems
In this vision, a local utility:
y Establishes retail rates at the cost of
service
y Hedges against risk and volatility
y Can build, finance and contract long‐term
for resources to ensure:
y Generation adequacy
y Balance in the portfolio
y Looks at the entire system holistically
y Gains efficiencies of scale, scope, and
integration
Co‐op System Options
y Direct load control
y Consumer information (e.g., orbs and
internet)
y Dynamic pricing
y CPP or PTR
y RTP (for interested C&I members)
y Bid demand response into the market
y Non‐Demand related hedging
y Co‐ops lead on smart grid implementation:
y With 10% of load, co‐ops have 18% of nations DR
capability
y More than half of co‐ops have begun AMI roll‐
out in at least part of their systems
y Co‐ops pioneered interoperability with
MultiSpeak
y Co‐ops are investigating dynamic pricing
What is electricity?
An essential service
Or
A commodity like pork bellies
(or tea, or steak)
Which can better meet consumers’ needs?
Vertically integrated utilities
with an obligation to serve?
or
Markets?
What does the DOE Vision mean for
State Policy Makers?
y The toaster could be a critical cyber asset
y Using/not using the toaster is a practice affecting wholesale
electricity prices
y Retail rates, terms and conditions of retail service, generation
adequacy, retail reliability, selection and operation of
distribution equipment, interconnection of generation and
storage at retail, and more could become FERC jurisdictional
y End‐use customers with generation or the ability to respond
to price could be QFs or public utilities subject to FERC
jurisdiction
y This could apply even outside of RTOs as FERC has
encouraged non‐RTO IOUs to engage in non‐discriminatory
economic dispatch, establishing a real‐time marginal cost for
energy outside organized markets
What does the debate mean for
State Policy Makers?
y If your utilities have already divested
their generation assets, the DOE vision
could help:
y Prices to devices gives consumers who are
already exposed to wholesale market risk a
tool to reduce their costs
y Prices to devices could substitute for DR
programs if no longer operated by vertically
integrated utilities
What does the debate mean for State
Policy Makers?
y If the utilities in your state still operate
under obligation to serve:
y Get involved in the SG policy debate and
standards development process now!
y Your jurisdiction is at stake
y Ensure that new federal policy and
standards support both the DOE and co‐
op SG models
What does the debate mean for State
Policy Makers?
y If the utilities in your state still operate under
obligation to serve, don’t disregard the benefit
that the SG may offer your consumers
y SG can enhance traditional utility service if
properly planned and implemented “at the
pace of value”
y Think about “long‐term technology
planning” rather than SG