Programs are the functions ColumbiaGrid carries out, and they are the building blocks for the organization's business plan. Each program is defined in a separate Agreement, a legal contract among the signing parties. Entities do not have to be members of ColumbiaGrid to sign on as a participant in any program, and they do not have to sign up for more than one program unless they choose to do so. Funding for each program is kept and accounted for separately.
The Joint Initiative Program is not exclusively a ColumbiaGrid program and is not defined by a Functional Agreement. The program is included here to allow interested persons to track ColumbiaGrid's Joint Initiative activities.
Status: Active
ColumbiaGrid provides single-utility based transmission planning for the combined network of its participating utilities. The goal of the program is to solve transmission issues regarding what should be built, who should build it, and who should pay for it. The participants in the Planning and Expansion program believe the ColumbiaGrid process provides the planning support and coordination needed to get multi-party transmission projects constructed in the region.
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Status: Active
ColumbiaGrid’s long-term OASIS and Transmission Services Program includes establishing and administering a common OASIS portal, determining methodologies for a common ATC, and working toward common queue methods for both transmission service and interconnection requests.
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Status: ongoing, as needed
This program includes activities focused on ColumbiaGrid as a corporation.
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Status: active
ColumbiaGrid has joined with NTTG and WestConnect to pursue several projects of mutual interest. ColumbiaGrid has offered the use of this website for posting activities of the Joint Initiative.
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Status: Completed
ColumbiaGrid is facilitating an Open Season Scoping Process through which regional transmission providers, transmission customers and interested persons are examining alternative transmission service business practices. One goal of this effort is to address a service request that might span more than one transmission owner’s system and to deal with that request in a comprehensive manner. Other goals are to investigate cost allocation issues and to encourage the construction of needed new transmission across multiple systems.
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Status: Active
ColumbiaGrid is facilitating a collaborative effort among its Members and other willing regional parties to analyze and understand the benefits and costs analyses, performed through WECC, for a proposed voluntary energy imbalance market (EIM) being discussed in the Western Interconnection. Future efforts may be expanded, based on the interests of ColumbiaGrid’s Members, to further explore energy imbalance and capacity markets.
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The Joint Initiative Program is not exclusively a ColumbiaGrid program and is not defined by a Functional Agreement. The program is included here to allow interested persons to track ColumbiaGrid's Joint Initiative activities.
Planning and Expansion
Timeframe: April 2007 - OngoingStatus: Active
ColumbiaGrid provides single-utility based transmission planning for the combined network of its participating utilities. The goal of the program is to solve transmission issues regarding what should be built, who should build it, and who should pay for it. The participants in the Planning and Expansion program believe the ColumbiaGrid process provides the planning support and coordination needed to get multi-party transmission projects constructed in the region.
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OASIS & Trans. Svcs.
Timeframe: April 2008 - ongoingStatus: Active
ColumbiaGrid’s long-term OASIS and Transmission Services Program includes establishing and administering a common OASIS portal, determining methodologies for a common ATC, and working toward common queue methods for both transmission service and interconnection requests.
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Corporate Development
Timeframe: 2007 - currentStatus: ongoing, as needed
This program includes activities focused on ColumbiaGrid as a corporation.
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Joint Initiative with NTTG & WestConnect
Timeframe: currentStatus: active
ColumbiaGrid has joined with NTTG and WestConnect to pursue several projects of mutual interest. ColumbiaGrid has offered the use of this website for posting activities of the Joint Initiative.
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Multi-System Open Season Scoping Process
Timeframe: 2009-2011Status: Completed
ColumbiaGrid is facilitating an Open Season Scoping Process through which regional transmission providers, transmission customers and interested persons are examining alternative transmission service business practices. One goal of this effort is to address a service request that might span more than one transmission owner’s system and to deal with that request in a comprehensive manner. Other goals are to investigate cost allocation issues and to encourage the construction of needed new transmission across multiple systems.
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Energy Imbalance Market (EIM)
Timeframe: 2011Status: Active
ColumbiaGrid is facilitating a collaborative effort among its Members and other willing regional parties to analyze and understand the benefits and costs analyses, performed through WECC, for a proposed voluntary energy imbalance market (EIM) being discussed in the Western Interconnection. Future efforts may be expanded, based on the interests of ColumbiaGrid’s Members, to further explore energy imbalance and capacity markets.
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