Title
Review of a Draft Decision and Order and Draft Resolution Adopting Transmission Formula Rate Template And The Implementation Protocols For Establishing An Annual Transmission Revenue Requirement For Transmission Owner Filing Submittals For The Southwest Power Pool Regional Transmission Organization's Open Access Transmission Tariff
Presenter:
Travas Deal, Chief Executive Officer, Colorado Springs Utilities
Tristan Gearhart, Chief Planning and Finance Officer, Colorado Springs Utilities
David Beckett, Senior Attorney, City Attorney's Office - Utilities Division
Summary:
The City Attorney's Office - Utilities Division will present a Decision and Order and Resolution for Colorado Springs Utilities' Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Transmission Owner Filing based upon the October 14, 2025, public hearing held for Colorado Springs Utilities' SPP Transmission Owner Filing filed on September 9, 2025.
Background:
On September 9, 2025, Colorado Springs Utilities filed the SPP Transmission Owner Filing, including a resolution, formula rate template (Template), implementation protocols (Protocols), and all supporting documentation to enable Utilities to implement a Template and Protocols (together the Formula Rate), so long as approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), to establish the mechanism and process for annual calculation, to include any true-up and updates, of the Annual Transmission Revenue Requirement (ATRR) and underlying calculated rates. The Staff of Utilities proposed that the implementation of the Formula Rate take effect on the day on which Utilities transfers functional control of Utilities' transmission facilities to SPP (scheduled for April 1, 2026, as of the date of the Resolution) and that the Formula Rate shall remain in effect unless changed by subsequent transmission owner filings to SPP. The Staff of Utilities also proposed Colorado Springs Utilities' initial 2026 ATRR that would take effect.
In accordance with the...
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