Economic Evaluation of Transmission Interconnection in a Restructured Market

TitleEconomic Evaluation of Transmission Interconnection in a Restructured Market
Publication TypeReport
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsFred Mobasheri, Margaret Cheng, Jaime Medina, Joseph H Eto
Series TitleConsultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission
Pagination48
Date Published06/2004
InstitutionCERTS
KeywordsCERTS Transmission Planning, consortium for electric reliability technology solutions (certs), transmission planning, transmission policy
Abstract

California's high voltage interconnections to neighboring states have played a vital role in meeting the state's electricity needs reliably and at great savings to the customers. However, in recent years the construction of new high voltage transmission capacity has not kept up with the load increases nor with the addition of generation capacity.