ANNOUNCEMENT
Updated September 18,
2006
Important Update…TranServ and
MidAmerican Transmission will be making some changes in how Transmission
Customers will fill-out electronic tags when using MEC transmission service as
specified in this E-Tag
Guidelines Under the MEC OATT
document . We will discuss this briefly
at the next Stakeholder’s meeting on September 27, and will be following up
with each of MEC’s Transmission Customers to discuss
these changes on an individual basis.
Contact
TranServ:
Phone: 763-205-7099
(24 hours)
E-mail:
support@transervinternational.net
MidAmerican Energy’s Open
Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) is administered by TranServ International as
MidAmerican’s Transmission Service Coordinator in accordance with Attachment K
of the MidAmerican OATT. In the role of
TSC, TranServ will be responsible for all OASIS operations, transmission
service request evaluation, tag approval as the TP, system impact studies and
generation interconnection study processes.
TranServ will be hosting a
daily stakeholder conference call from 3:00-3:30 pm CDT M-F during the week of
August 28, 2006 to discuss status, issues and concerns pertaining to this
cutover of operations. Send an e-mail to
support@transervinternational.net
if you need call-in information to participate in these calls.
Revised MidAmerican Business
Practices reflecting the transition to the TSC have been posted for stakeholder
review. This includes minor changes to
the request timing requirements which will be implemented by
TranServ.
OASIS CHANGES
TranServ will be
implementing a few minor changes to the names and attributes that define the
MEC transmission services. These changes
should have little impact on day-to-day operations and will facilitate
compliance with current OASIS business standards. Customers who are using automated processes
to upload or download transmission service requests using the OASIS templates should
take special note of the service attribute changes associated with these
changes.
- Two new services, DAILY FIRM PTP and DAILY
NON-FIRM PTP, will be added to replace the separate daily weekday and
weekend services. There is no need for
the customer to distinguish by separate reservations for on-peak versus
off-peak daily service. The DAILY
FIRM PTP WKDY, DAILY FIRM PTP
WKND-H, DAILY NON-FIRM PTP WKDY,
and DAILY NON-FIRM PTP WKND-H
services will be deactivated.
- As with daily service, the existing HOURLY NON-FIRM PTP service must
be used for all hourly service requests regardless of on-peak or off-peak
hours. The HOURLY NON-FIRM PTP OFF-P and HOURLY NON-FIRM PTP ON-P services will be
deactivated.
- The existing HOURLY S-NON-FIRM PTP service will be renamed to HOURLY SECONDARY PTP for REDIRECTs of firm service on a non-firm basis. This is a name change only that will be
selected on the OASIS user interface.
- The existing VARIABLE S-ND-NETWORK service will be renamed to VARIABLE SECONDARY NTWK for
network service from non-designated resources (NN-6 service. This is a name change only that will be
selected on the OASIS user interface.
- The DAILY
FIRM NETWORK and WEEKLY FIRM
NETWORK services will be renamed to DAILY FIRM NTWK and WEEKLY
FIRM NTWK to be consistent with the naming of the yearly and monthly
network services.
- The VARIABLE
FIRM NETWORK-IL and VARIABLE
FIRM NTWK-WHLSLE service will be deactivated. All requests for network service and
designation of network resources should use the appropriate yearly,
monthly, weekly or daily network services.
The posted tariff rates for
on-peak and off-peak hourly point-to-point service and the periods of
Monday-Friday and on Saturdays, Sundays, and National Holidays for daily
point-to-point service will remain unchanged.
The following table
highlights the new and modified transmission services whose OASIS template
attributes are being changed. Customers
using automated processes should review these changes for their possible impact
to those processes:
|
OASIS
Service Name
|
SERVICE_INCREMENT
|
TS_CLASS
|
TS_TYPE
|
TS_PERIOD
|
TS_WINDOW
|
TS_SUBCLASS
|
|
DAILY FIRM PTP
|
DAILY
|
FIRM
|
POINT_TO_POINT
|
FULL_PERIOD
|
FIXED
|
|
|
DAILY NON-FIRM PTP
|
DAILY
|
NON-FIRM
|
POINT_TO_POINT
|
FULL_PERIOD
|
FIXED
|
|
|
DAILY FIRM NTWK
|
DAILY
|
FIRM
|
NETWORK
|
FULL_PERIOD
|
FIXED
|
DESIGNATED
|
|
WEEKLY FIRM NTWK
|
WEEKLY
|
FIRM
|
NETWORK
|
FULL_PERIOD
|
SLIDING
|
DESIGNATED
|
|
MONTHLY
FIRM NTWK
|
MONTHLY
|
FIRM
|
NETWORK
|
FULL_PERIOD
|
FIXED
|
DESIGNATED
|
ETAG CHANGES
TranServ and MidAmerican
will be contacting transmission customers individually during the next month to
review current tagging practices and discuss any changes that may be required to
facilitate the tagging/scheduling process between TranServ as TP and
MidAmerican as CA (BA).
Business Practices