Joint Coordinated System Plan

<body> <H1>Joint Coordinated System Planning (JCSP)</H1> <P> Joint Coordinated System Planning (JCSP) is a transmission planning effort between RTO organizations that focuses on a Department of Energy scenario of 20% wind energy. Within this site, you will find links to meeting materials, wind movies representing annual hourly data, and notices for upcoming meetings. </p> <p>Formally initiated on November 1, 2007, the Joint Coordinated System Planning (JCSP08) study began as collaboration between the Midwest ISO, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland Interconnection (PJM), Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to meet the requirements of the Joint Operating Agreements each organization has with the Midwest ISO. Subsequent to the initial four parties the ISO New England (ISO-NE), New York ISO (NYISO) and the MAPP all joined the study as formal participants. On an informal basis, the Southeast Inter Regional group has been formed within SERC – both TVA and Entergy are part of this group and Entergy is participating in the JCSP primarily through SPP. Therefore, TVA and SPP can act as a liaison between the JCSP and this group. </p> <p>While comprised of both a reliability assessment focused on 2018 and a separate economic assessment with a 2024 focus, the main focus of the JCSP08 is the economic assessment. To leverage staff resources and also produce an extensive policy level study, the economic study is also being performed in collaboration with the Department of Energy and their Eastern Wind Integration Transmission Study. The DOE Eastern Wind Integration Transmission Study (EWITS) had scenario planning objective to investigate both 20% and 30% wind energy penetration scenarios in the bulk of the Eastern Interconnection and the transmission required to effectuate that level of penetration. The JCSP study adopted the DOE assumptions and added them to a Reference Future that acts as a baseline for comparison. </p> <p>This Reference Future is based off of meeting the existing state mandates for renewable portfolio standards in existence as of January 1, 2008. Many of the existing standards allow for a variety of resources, such as hydro, biomass and solar to be used in addition to wind, although wind is the predominant renewable being advocated in the Eastern Interconnect. As with the 20% wind energy Future and 30% wind energy Future, a key assumption for this study is that all of the renewable portfolio standards are assumed to be met with wind energy. </p> <P>You are viewing this page because your browser is incapable of displaying frames. Please update your browser to see our site as it should be viewed. </p> <P>For additional information, please send an email to jtsmith@midwestiso.org </P> </body >