Western Interconnection definition

Western Interconnection means the area comprising those states and provinces, or portions thereof, in Western Canada, Northern Mexico and the Western United States in which Members of the WSCC operate synchronously connected transmission systems.

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Western Interconnection means a network of transmission lines embodied within the WSCC Region.

Western Interconnection means the network of subsystems of generators, transmission lines, transformers, switching stations, and substations owned or operated by members of the WECC, to the extent located in the continental United States.

Examples of Western Interconnection in a sentence

• A sector composed of entities that enroll in 338 the WestConnect Planning Region for purposes of Cost Allocation pursuant to 339 Order No. 1000 and that (1) provide transmission service and own a minimum of 340 one hundred (100) circuit miles or $100 million of original installed cost of 341 transmission plant rated at 115 kV and higher within the Western 342 Interconnection; and (2) serve a minimum of 150 MW of retail and/or wholesale 343 network load within the Western Interconnection.

• Any Balancing Authority that operates (or is preparing to operate) at least one Balancing Authority Area in the Western Interconnection may apply to become a Participant for those of its Balancing Authority Areas that are within the Western Interconnection.

• The electric system topology that 155 consists of transmission facilities in the Western Interconnection owned by ETOs. 156 3.32.

• Online resources (generation or load) that will provide primary frequency response when the Western Interconnection experiences a frequency deviation.

• An Applicant that operates an existing Balancing Authority in the Western Interconnection must, within 10 Business Days following its Application Date, submit to the NWPP Corporation complete compliance data for BAL-003, as reported by the Applicant to its Enforcement Authority, for the two Operating Years most recently completed before the Application Date.

More Definitions of Western Interconnection

Western Interconnection means the area comprising those states and provinces, or portions thereof, in Western Canada, Northern Mexico and the Western United States in which members of the WSCC operate synchronously connected transmission systems.

Western Interconnection means the synchronously operated electric transmission grid located in the western part of North America, including parts of Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas and Mexico and all of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta.

Western Interconnection means the interconnected electrical transmission system located in the western region of the United States.

Western Interconnection means the area comprising those

Western Interconnection means a network of transmission lines embodied within the WECC Region.

Western Interconnection means the westernmost of the three major alternating-current electrical grids in North America. The Western Interconnection stretches from Western Canada South to Baja California in Mexico, reaching eastward over the Rockies to the Great Plains.

Western Interconnection means the geographic area spanning