Reliability Driven ProjectsTiming. The ISO will endeavor to finalize and submit to the ISO Governing Board for approval an Initial Integrated Transmission Plan within 120 days after the ISO receives the Annual Transmission Plans from all or the Participating TOs., in coordination with the ISO and Market Participants, through the coordinated planning processes of the WSCC and the RTGs, will identify the need for any transmission additions or upgrades required to ensure system reliability consistent with all Applicable Reliability Criteria. In making this determination, the Participating TO and the ISO, in coordination with the other Market Participants, shall consider lower cost alternatives to the construction of transmission additions or upgrades, such as acceleration or expansion of existing projects, demand-side management, remedial action schemes, constrained-on Generation, interruptible Loads or reactive support. The Participating TO shall perform the necessary studies to determine the facilities needed to meet all Applicable Reliability Criteria. The Participating TO shall provide the ISO and other Market Participants with all information relating to a proposed transmission addition or upgrade that they may reasonably request (other than information available to them through the WSCC or RTG) and shall, through the WSCC or RTG coordinated planning processes, develop the scope of and assumptions for such studies that are acceptable to the ISO and those other Market Participants. The ISO shall be free to propose any transmission upgrades it deems necessary to ensure System Reliability consistent with Applicable Reliability Criteria and subject to appropriate appeals, the TO shall be obligated to construct such lines. After the ISO Operations Date, the ISO, in consultation with Participating TOs and any affected UDCs, will work to develop a consistent set of reliability criteria for the ISO Controlled Grid which the TOs will use in their transmission planning and expansion studies or decisions.
