SB 589 RTO Study Comments · Customer Self-Service

Thank you for your interest in providing feedback to the Oregon Department of Energy pursuant to its implementation of Senate Bill 589.

Objective

Our objective is to gather and synthesize the range of perspectives on the benefits, costs, opportunities, challenges, and risks of Regional Transmission Organization formation that exist among a diverse range of Oregon stakeholders to inform the State Legislature and other interested parties.

Scoping Questions

To support participation we provided background materials on this topic (e.g., What is an RTO? How do they operate?) and other related issues on our website. In addition, we created the following one-pager that summarized this study, which included a timeline of key dates.

Comments received to scoping questions played a critical role in better understanding stakeholder perspectives on key issues related to RTO formation. There were three categories of questions with several topics per category.

Foundational Questions:

Legal barriers
Oregon-specific net benefits
Oregon retail customers
Overarching principles

Technical Questions:

Transmission rates
Transmission planning and operation
Renewables
Environmental impacts
Climate resilience

Governance and Design:

Governance
Market design optionality

Given the technical nature of some of these issues, however, and in recognition that some stakeholders have more data and analysis to address some of these questions than others, we expected that some stakeholders would not answer every question. Please find all comments submitted as part of the study below and find update about the study and report on ODOE’s website.

If you have any questions please contact Adam Schultz (adam.schultz@energy.oregon.gov).

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