OASIS & Trans. Svcs.
OASIS & Trans. Svcs. Details
Beginning in 2009, ColumbiaGrid will provide program participants with a common Open-Access Same-time Information System (OASIS) portal, which is a single OASIS interface website, to facilitate transmission service requests within and across member and qualified non-member systems.
Initially, this common portal will display information common to those participants that have their own OASIS and provide links to those OASIS systems for the actual transmission requests. Additionally, the OASIS portal will allow posting of available transmission by participating utilities that do not have their own OASIS site.
The initial effort, beginning in 2008, will be to develop methodologies for determining common ATC and common queuing of requests for transmission service and interconnection, in a regional collaborative process involving interested parties and participating utilities. As a common methodology becomes accepted and implemented, the ColumbiaGrid OASIS will provide common ATCs calculated using that methodology.
ColumbiaGrid will also participate in efforts to identify and develop business practices, products, and tariff provisions common among the participants and will post them on the ColumbiaGrid OASIS.
Initially, this common portal will display information common to those participants that have their own OASIS and provide links to those OASIS systems for the actual transmission requests. Additionally, the OASIS portal will allow posting of available transmission by participating utilities that do not have their own OASIS site.
The initial effort, beginning in 2008, will be to develop methodologies for determining common ATC and common queuing of requests for transmission service and interconnection, in a regional collaborative process involving interested parties and participating utilities. As a common methodology becomes accepted and implemented, the ColumbiaGrid OASIS will provide common ATCs calculated using that methodology.
ColumbiaGrid will also participate in efforts to identify and develop business practices, products, and tariff provisions common among the participants and will post them on the ColumbiaGrid OASIS.
