Analysis and Recommendations

BWMQ's Alan Heintz provided advice and recommendations to a wide variety of transmission related entities. This work includes the review of work products from various committees (legal, tariff, operations, planning and infrastructure) to determine the likely cost impact on potential members.  The issues reviewed included, revenue requirements, congestion management, zonal/grid-wide rates, phase in methods, treatment of the various pre-existing agreements, definition of transmission facilities, revenue allocations, loss calculations and recovery methods, ancillary services and rates, grid expansion costs recovery methods, and ensuring that good price signals were given participants to ensure economic decisions.