The ACC Staff hired Ascend Analytics to analyze the cost of the recent ACC Energy Rules Package.  Here is a link to the report.

Here's  a good summary of the report in Utility Dive.    

FERC has ruled that CAISO can prioritize native load, and the Chairwoman of the ACC is not happy about it.  Both make for interesting reading. 

I think that you might find Chairwoman Marquez-Peterson's dissent on the Energy Rules to be interesting.

Salt River Project has restarted its Integrated Resource Planning sessions.  The Stakeholder group met virtually yesterday.   Here are the slides.

The slides provide an excellent overview of the direction SRP is going and include estimates of load, scheduled coal retirements and storage updates.  

One interesting tidbit is that SRP is planning to build 4 new combustion turbines at the Coolidge site.  Here is the slide. 

The Arizona Competitive Power Alliance is celebrating its 20th year!  Each year we host an Energy Conference...well, almost every year.  US Senator Kyrsten Sinema was scheduled to by our 2020 Keynote speaker.  That conference was in the post-COVID, Pre-zoom era, so it didn't happen.  

This year we hosted the meeting via Zoom and Senator Sinema reprised her role as keynote and we added APS President Jeff Guldner and ACC Chairwoman Lea Marquez-Peterson as additional VIP speakers.  

In order to formalize stakeholder input, the new ACC Energy Rules require the utilities to form a Resource Planning Advisory Council (RPAC).  I’ve been appointed to the APS Council in my capacity a Alliance Director.  This is a great opportunity to provide input on the front end of the APS planning process.  Naturally, we will still participate in the broader stakeholder process as well as the Integrated Resource Planning process at the ACC.  However, serving on the RPAC provides an opportunity to deal directly with APS early in the process as part of a smaller stakeholder group. 

Here are the slides from the April 15th APS RPAC Presentation

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. 

The ACC continues its reliability series with an upcoming workshop on summer preparedness. 

Here is the agenda for the March 30th meeting.  

About the time we formed the Arizona Competitive Power Alliance in 2001, the ACC began a process to assess transmission needs.  They decided to up date the report every two years--hence the "Biennial Transmission Assessment."  I'm pleased to say that are now working on our 11th Biennial Transmission Assessment.  Here is the agenda and video.

If you are looking for summaries of individual projects, then this presentation from August 7th will have the information that you are seeking.  Here's the agenda and here's the video.  

Here's a screen shot from the Sun Zia presentation.

The ACC has spend the past several years reforming its Integrated Resource Planning Process.  They held the most recent workshop on March 15th.  Here is the agenda and here is the link to the video.  

I must say that I'm looking forward to the day that "attending" the workshop doesn't look like this....

In the wake of the Texas debacle, PUCs are reassessing the reliability of their state's grid.  Arizona held its reliability meeting on March 18th.  It was an interesting meeting and well worth your time. 

 Here is a link to the agenda and here is a link to the video.