Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Gen Interconnection: Comparability or Common Sense?

Why power plants should pay for grid upgrades.


 

Why power plants should pay for grid upgrades.

Do we make all generators equal-using affirmative action to give rights to merchants that are "comparable" to utility-owned plants?

Or, do we let the locational price signals shine through-trusting all plant developers, whether regulated or not, to act in self-interest?