Message-ID: <18786493.1075861008201.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:06:13 -0800 (PST) From: pjmcustomerrelationsandtraining@pjm.com To: pjm-customer-info@risc1.pjm.com Subject: News release: PJM SUBMITS APPLICATION TO OVERSEE SOUTHEAST RTO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: PJMCustomerRelationsandTraining@pjm.com X-To: pjm-customer-info@risc1.pjm.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Richard_Ring_Mar2002\Ring, Richard\Deleted Items X-Origin: Ring-R X-FileName: rring (Non-Privileged).pst Message sent from the pjm-customer-info mailing list at pjm-customer-info@majordomo.pjm.com: > For Immediate Release > PJM SUBMITS APPLICATION > TO OVERSEE SOUTHEAST RTO > > (Valley Forge, PA-January 8, 2002) PJM Interconnection, the country's only > fully functioning Regional Transmission Organization (RTO), today submitted a > Preliminary Statement of Qualifications to be considered for the Independent > System Administrator (ISA) for SeTrans - a proposed Southeast RTO. > > The SeTrans Owners Group has proposed the development of a RTO to provide > system operations, market administration and regional system planning for nine > utilities and public power companies operating in eight Southeastern and Gulf > states. It is envisioned that the SeTrans ISA will be responsible for > operating 53,000 miles of transmission and more than 73,000 megawatts of > generation capacity spanning a region of nearly 291,000 square miles, once the > RTO becomes operational. The SeTrans Owners Group involved in the RTO > development include: Southern Company, Entergy, Municipal Electric Authority > of Georgia, Santee Cooper, Jacksonville Electric Authority, Georgia > Transmission Corporation, Southwest Mississippi Electric Power Association, > and the cities of Tallahassee, Florida and Dalton, Georgia. > > If selected as the ISA, PJM's unique qualifications would provide proven > solutions and services necessary to support both the implementation and > ongoing operation of the SeTrans RTO. PJM is offering its demonstrated > organizational capabilities, intellectual capital and proven information-based > products and services to create efficiencies for energy market participants. > > PJM, the country's only fully functioning RTO, operates the world's largest > competitive wholesale electricity market and one of North America's largest > power grids. The company currently coordinates a pooled generating capacity of > more than 59,000 megawatts and operates a wholesale electricity market with > more than 200 market buyers, sellers and traders of electricity. PJM has > administered more than $5 billion in energy and energy service trades since > the regional markets opened in 1997. More than 70 nations have sent delegates > to PJM to learn about the market model and the operation of the grid in the > mid-Atlantic states. Visit PJM at www.pjm.com. > #### > > Please DO NOT REPLY to this message. If you have a question for PJM Customer Relations and Training, please complete and submit this form: http://www.pjm.com/contact/questions.html To unsubscribe from this list, send an e-mail to majordomo@majordomo.pjm.com containing only the following line in the body of the e-mail: unsubscribe pjm-customer-info