Common use of Plan Methodology Clause in Contracts

Plan Methodology. In developing each Plan, ColumbiaGrid will conduct such activities consistent with this Agreement and will endeavor to: (i) facilitate analysis of Projects as if a single utility owned all relevant generating, transmission, and distribution facilities to enhance efficiency and reduce duplication of facilities, environmental impacts, and costs; (ii) model and study the RIS facilities through a system assessment and other analyses assuming all such facilities are available for Projects; (iii) recognize each ▇▇▇▇’▇ responsibility for planning Projects on its Transmission System and responsibility for the planning necessary for its Single System Projects and service of its local loads from its Transmission System; (iv) coordinate with the planning activities of other sub regional and regional planning entities; and (v) with respect to Non-Transmission Alternatives, defer to the development of such alternatives in other appropriate forums and limit analysis of such alternatives to analysis of whether a ▇▇▇▇-proposed Non-Transmission Alternative will meet or defer a Need.