Western Governors' Clean and Diversified Energy Initiative
- Report of the Transmission Task Force May 2006 - PDF

• Western Governors' Association

Study on TOT3 - www.wyia.org/projects.htm
(Trans-Elect Inc., has partnered with WAPA and the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority to expand the transmission capacity across the TOT 3 constraint between Colorado and Wyoming )

• Wyoming Infrastructure Authority (WIA)

Commissioner Primer - Transmission Investment - PDF
produced by The National Regulatory Research Institute

A Balanced Energy Plan for the Interior West - PDF
produced by Western Resource Advocates

Colorado Long Range Transmission Planning Study 2005-2015 (July 2006) - PDF

Colorado Long Range Transmission Planning Group:
Aquila Networks, Colorado Springs Utilities, Platte River Power Authority, Public Service Company of Colorado (Xcel Energy), Tri-State Generation and Transmission, Western Area Power Administration

Transmission and Wind Energy: Capturing the Prevailing Winds for the Benefit of Customers - PDF

Policy Paper on Wind Energy released by National Grid
(see also the third comment to the Task Force which references this paper)

White paper: Integrated Coal and Wind Power Development in the U.S. Upper Great Plains - PDF

• related article: Integrating Coal and Wind - PDF

FERC Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005 website

• full text of EPAct - PDF
  

Energy Policy Act Fact Sheet - PDF

new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission responsibilities include:

• overseeing the reliability of the nation’s electricity transmission grid
• supplementing state transmission siting efforts in national interest electric transmission corridors