FERC last week accepted network transmission service agreements between SPP and Kansas Municipal Energy Agency (KMEA) and Sunflower Electric Power, pending modifications to address the inconsistent treatment of a generation resource (ER17-889).
The commission directed SPP to make a compliance filing within 30 days to resolve a modeling discrepancy in the power-flow analysis, which failed to account for a 9-MW gas turbine (Garden City 2) at KMEA’s Jameson Energy Center in Garden City, Kan.
SPP agreed to file revisions to KMEA’s service agreement to reflect the additional network resource, with an effective date of March 1, 2017, and to remove a reference to the unit that imposes revenue crediting requirements.
The RTO filed with FERC in January service agreements between it and KMEA as a network customer, and between it and KMEA and Sunflower as a network customer and host transmission owner, respectively. Commission staff tentatively accepted the agreements in March while FERC lacked a quorum.
Sunflower and its Mid-Kansas Electric owner, which also includes five co-ops and a not-for-profit electric company, intervened to point out the initial service agreement with KMEA excluded Garden City 2 but required the unit to pay revenue credits as a network resource. They requested FERC require SPP to remove the unit from the revenue credit payment or add Garden City 2 as a network resource.
SPP acknowledged its mistake and said it performed an additional analysis using updated model information, reposting the results in an aggregate transmission service study in February. It confirmed network service for KMEA used Garden City 2 as a designated network resource, effective March 1.
— Tom Kleckner
