NEW! The New Frontiers Power Summit NEW!
April 17-19, 2006 San Diego, California
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Meet with top industry, political, and policy leaders on the challenges and opportunities facing Western transmission.
Speakers are scheduled to include California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (awaiting confirmation), Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn (awaiting confirmation), and other leaders from the private and public sectors.
Click for Registration and other information on the Summit
To learn more about RMATS and the RMATS process, click the topics below:
Project Updates RMATS Steering Committee Selected Working Documents Project Costs and Finance RMATS Charter
RMATS Stakeholder Meetings White Paper on Planning Process Contact Information RMATS Report Development
WY Executive Order implementing the WGA Siting Protocol WGA Siting and Permitting Protocol Western Governor's Association
Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr.
State of Utah
Governor Dave Freudenthal
State of Wyoming
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The problem RMATS seeks to address is the constraints on electric transmission in the Rocky Mountain region and the resulting underutilization of the region's vast wind, natural gas and coal resources. Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and other similar regional entities have been slow to form and begin effective operation. The Rocky Mountain area needed a collaborative planning effort to consider transmission expansion needs from a holistic perspective. This is RMATS. | |||
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The Governors created RMATS: The Governors of Utah and Wyoming co-sponsored RMATS as a regional transmission planning initiative to identify the most cost effective transmission given the location of potential new generation in the Rocky Mountain area. Their initiative brings into sharp focus the important role new transmission will play in providing access to the region’s most economical energy resources while ensuring delivery of reliable and affordable supplies of electricity to the fast growing economies of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming and to other parts of the Western Interconnection. The Governors agreed that the public-private collaboration they sponsored in RMATS is a necessary step in turning transmission planning into “towers and wires”. |
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The goal of RMATS is to identify the most critical electric transmission and generation project needs in the Rocky Mountain sub-region, and, with broad stakeholder involvement, to provide a framework for regional collaboration to improve the Western Interconnection with needed technically, financially and environmentally viable projects and to help facilitate effective developmental consideration. |
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The keys to success. RMATS is an open and public process with stakeholders representing the Western Interconnection electric utilities, independent power producers, rural electric generation and transmission cooperatives, municipalities, federal power, transmission and marketing agencies, project developers, entrepreneurs, power brokers, state and federal regulators, state energy offices, large and small consumer groups, consumers themselves and others interested in regional electric generation and transmission planning. The data and processes of the RMATS Phase I Report were verifiable and open to all. |
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RMATS Phase 2 and beyond. RMATS produced its RMATS Phase 1 Report, and you are invited to read and download it through the link below. The next Phases of RMATS are addressing project implementation, cost recovery and related issues. Find more information about them below. |
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updated: February 28, 2006