Southwest Area Transmission

Purpose and vision statement

Southwest Area Transmission (SWAT) is comprised of transmission regulators/governmental entities, transmission users, transmission owners, transmission operators and environmental entities. The goal of SWAT is to promote regional planning in the Desert Southwest. The SWAT regional planning group includes four main subcommittees, which are overseen by the SWAT Oversight Committee.

SWAT subgroups

View a draft description of SWAT subgroups.

SWAT Short Circuit Working Group (SWAT- SCWG)
The SWAT-SCWG meets every third Thursday of each month.

Contact Thomas Field at Field@wapa.gov for more information or visit the SWAT-SCWG Web site.

Western Congestion Analysis Task Force (WCATF)
Western Interconnection response to EPACT 2005 Section 1221 National interest Electric Transmission Corridors

• WECC - Western Congestion Analysis Task Force
• SWAT template for summarizing transmission studies and potential transmission projects
• EPACT 2005 Section 1221-National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor

SWAT Comments to DOE on EPACT 2005 Section 368
Energy corridors on federal lands.

• SWAT comments to DOE western energy corridors (2.74 M PDF)
• Arizona Cooperation Commission (ACC) comments (127 KB PDF)
• Arizona Public Service comments (3.32 M PDF)
• Tucson Electric Power map proposed corridors (357 KB PDF)
• Tucson Electric Power written comments (18 KB PDF)
• EPACT 2005 Section 368 – Energy corridors on federal lands (west wide energy corridor programmatic EIS information center)

Meeting information

View a schedule of upcoming SWAT meetings, including maps and agendas.

You can also view meeting minutes and presentation materials from previous meetings.

Maps

• SWAT footprint (231K PDF)
• SWAT study groups (255K PDF)

Reports

• CATS Phase I report
• CATS Phase II report
• CATS Phase III report
• Regional transmission studies
• CATS-HV final report (2.5MB PDF)
• CATS-HV final report-APPDX_A (3MB PDF)
• CATS-HV final report-APPDX_B (12MB PDF)
• CATS-HV final report-APPDX_C (95K PDF)
• CATS-HV final report-APPDX_D (90K PDF)
• CATS-HV final report-APPDX_E (9.9MB PDF)
• CATS-HV final report-APPDX_F (1.4MB PDF)
• SWAT 2004 activity report (draft) (4.7MB MS Word)

Member information

• Salt River Project (SRP)
• Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM)
• Arizona Public Service (APS)

Related links

• Seams Steering Group - Western Interconnection (SSG-WI)
• Central Arizona Transmission Study (CATS)
• PV-PW transmission project
• PW-SEV/BOB transmission project
• Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC)
• TEPPC Event Calendar

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