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FAQs: Composite Rates

Q: What were the composite and agency average rates for Western wholesale power and transmission in FYs 2005-2007?

 

A: The following tables detail these rates by project.

 

Firm Composite Rates

REGIONAL OFFICE

PROJECT1
 

FY 2005 FIRM

COMPOSITE RATE

(MILLS/kWh)

FY 2006 FIRM

COMPOSITE RATE

(MILLS/kWh)

FY 2007 FIRM

COMPOSITE RATE

(MILLS/kWh)

Upper Great Plains

Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program-Eastern Division

 

16.51

 

16.51

 

19.542

Rocky Mountain

Loveland Area Projects3

 

23.90

 

26.12

 

27.364

Desert Southwest

Boulder Canyon

14.82 

14.05 

17.02

Parker-Davis

5.565

6.165

6.645

Sierra Nevada

Central Valley6

32,650,0006

52,625,0006

59,817,9886

Washoe

N/A

N/A

N/A

CRSP Management Center

Salt Lake City Area7 Integrated Projects

 

20.72

 

25.28

 

25.28

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1Falcon-Amistad and Provo River costs are repaid annually by the power users as provided by contract without regard to energy availability. Billing is not based on a mills/kWh amount.

2The firm composite rate for PSMBP-ED was increased to 19.54 mills effective January 1, 2007.

3LAP consists of PSMBP-WD and the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project.

4The firm composite rate for LAP was increased to 27.36 mills effective January 1, 2007.

5Composite rate when transmission rate is included.

6CVP number reflects the power revenue requirement.

7SLCA/IP consists of the Collbran, Rio Grande Projects and Colorado River Storage Projects.


 


Firm Transmission Rate

REGIONAL OFFICE

PROJECT

FY 2005 FIRM

TRANSMISSION RATE ($/kW-month)

FY 2006 FIRM

TRANSMISSION RATE ($/kW-month)

FY 2007 FIRM

TRANSMISSION RATE ($/kW-month)

Upper Great Plains

Integrated System1

2.772

2.753

2.754
 

Rocky Mountain

Loveland Area Projects5

2.79

2.90

2.75

Desert Southwest

Intertie 230/345-kV

1.00

1.00

1.276 

Intertie 500-kV

1.44

1.44

1.276

Parker-Davis

1.08

1.08

1.08

Sierra Nevada

Central Valley7

Formula rate

Formula rate

Formula rate

California-Oregon Transmission Project7

 

Formula rate

 

Formula rate

 

Formula rate

CRSP Management Center

 Salt Lake City
Integrated Projects

 

2.33

 

2.19

 

2.17

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1The Integrated Transmission System includes transmission facilities owned by Western’s Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program-Eastern Division, Basin Electric Power Cooperative and Heartland Consumers Power District.

2Rate effective May 1, 2005, through Sept.30, 2005.

3Rate effective May 1, 2006, through Sept. 30, 2007.

4Rate effective May 1, 2007, through April 30, 2008.

5Formula rate provisions revised every October 1.

6In FY 2007, a new rate: Long-term and short-term firm point-to-point transmission service created a standard rate for 230/345-kV and 500-kV.

7This formula rate has provisions to be revised on a annual or seasonal basis.