Title
Recommendation to Authorize the General Manager to Execute the Transmission Owner Rate Case Program Agreement between The Northern California Power Agency and Alameda Municipal Power. (Alameda Municipal Power)
Body
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jennifer Ott, City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In October, the Public Utilities Board approved the Transmission Owner Rate Case Program Agreement between the Northern California Power Agency and Alameda Municipal Power (AMP) and recommended it for City Council approval. This agreement provides a framework for the cost distribution of transmission advocacy services on behalf of AMP and other members. As this agreement does not have an end date, City Council approval is required.
BACKGROUND
AMP is a member of the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) which was formed by various Northern California municipal utilities on July 19, 1968, through the Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) to provide for the purchase, use, or sale of revenue-producing facilities, including electric generating and transmitting facilities, as well as other supporting programs such as scheduling and dispatch services and legislative advocacy services. Under the JPA, individual member public agencies use their common powers more efficiently to acquire, purchase, generate, transmit, distribute, sell, interchange, and pool electric capacity and energy. AMP currently receives benefits from various projects and programs offered at NCPA. NCPA is expanding activities related to transmission advocacy. These activities were previously conducted within the Transmission Agency of Northern California (TANC), a joint powers agency that was established in 1984.
TANC was first created to develop the California-Oregon Transmission Project (COTP) on behalf of its members. The COTP is a 340-mile long, high voltage transmission line between the California-Oregon border and Central California, completed and energized in 1993. In 2014,...
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