Examples of AFC in a sentence
Requirements: Each Party shall bear its own cost of providing information to the other Party pursuant to Section 4.1 and 4.2. Purpose: The calculation of AFC is a forecast of transmission capability that may be available for use by transmission customers.
Data exchange is required to determine if a transmission service reservation (or interchange schedule) will impact Flowgates to an extent greater than the (firm or non-firm) AFC and procedures are necessary to assure that each Party respects the other Party’s Flowgates.
While excluding nuclear generation or hydro units from this scaling would provide some level of refinement, this approach is inadequate to identify transmission constraints and determine rational AFC values.
If the status of a particular generator of less than 50 MW is used within a Party’s AFC calculation, the status of this unit shall also be supplied.
Although this information and a host of very detailed data are included in the MMWG/ERAG cases, this data exchange mechanism will address the ‘major’ changes that should be included in the AFC calculation models in a more timely manner.