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SWAT meeting information

Upcoming meetings

Please note, locations, dates and times are tentative.

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: Jan. 30, 2007
Time: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (tentative)
Location: Salt River Project
6504 E. Thomas Road, Scottsdale, AZ

Previous meetings

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: Oct. 18, 2006
Time: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Nevada Power Company
6226 West Sahara Ave., Las Vegas, NV

View the meeting minutes (30K PDF)
View the agenda (16K PDF)

Presentations in PDF format:

CATS-EHV presentation (5.4M)
BASE_CASE_LOAD_DEVELOPMENT (95K)
CATS-HV presentation (46K)
SWAT Foot Print (91 K)
DPV2-SWAT (37K)
DPV2-EOR93 (55 K)
NM Subgroup presentation (187 K)
RDRC_Restoration Meeting (123K)
SunZia Figure 1-1 Overview (1.9M)
SunZia Southwest Transmission Project Status (221K)

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: Aug. 16, 2006
Time: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
1100 West 116th Ave., Westminster, CO

View the agenda (15K PDF)

Presentations in PDF format:

CATS-EHV update (5.4M)
CRT-SWAT update (5.1M)
DPV2_SWAT (98K)
TransWest Express Project update (274K)
SWAT-SCWGR update (95K)
Navajo Transmission Project update (1.1M)
ZIA CCPG (4.9M)
Frontier line update (105K)
CDEAC Study (789K)
CLRTPG-PRES (185K)
CCPG-SWAT-TEPPC (86K)
WestConnect-CCPG-SWAT (239K)

SWAT Workshop Project Zia
Date: July 17, 2006
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Salt River Project Information Systems Building (ISB)
1600 North Priest Drive, Tempe, AZ

View the meeting announcement (41K PDF)
View map (ISB) (24K PDF)

Presentations in PDF format:

Project ZIA Presentation (60K)
Project ZIA Summary (4.9M)

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: May 10, 2006
Time: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Public Service Company of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico

View the meeting minutes (35K PDF)
View the agenda (23K PDF)

Presentations PDF format:

CATS-EHV update (60 K)
CDEAC scenarios (477 K)
CRT-SWAT update (765 K)
Desert Basin 230kV Tie (324 K)
Military airspace brief (4.14 M)
Palo Verde-Yuma (2.62 M)
Palo Verde-TS5 (209 K)
Restoration/Blackstart (281 K)
Short Circuit Work Group update (518 K)
Short-term upgrades (208 K)
SPR-NPC transmission projects (652 K)
STEP update (338 K)
TEP Pinal South to Tortolita SWAT (104 K)
TransWest Express (515 K)
WCATF update overview (934 K)
WestConnect and CREPC update (1.01 M)

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: Jan. 17, 2006
Time: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Arizona Public Service Company
641 E. Van Buren St. Phoenix, AZ

View the meeting minutes (72 K PDF)
View the agenda (126 K PDF)

Microsoft PowerPoint presentations:

Special protection system for the Palo Verde hub congestion management during 2006 spring season (3.06 M PPT)
SWAT status report: CATS-EHV Subcommittee (705 KB PPT)
Reliability must-run analysis SWAT presentation January 2006 (723 KB PPT)

WestConnect SWAT Presentation (1.45 M PPT)

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: Dec. 13, 2005
Time: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Salt River Project Power Operations Building
6504 E. Thomas Road, Scottsdale, AZ

View the meeting minutes (72 K PDF)
View the agenda (13 K PDF)

Microsoft PowerPoint presentations:

CATS-HV saturated load study (3.14 M PPT)
CATS-EHV subcommittee SWAT status report (683 KB)
Colorado River Transmission status update (543 KB)
TransWest Express Project (2.25 M)

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: Aug. 23, 2005
Location: Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
1100 West 116th Ave., Westminster, CO
View the meeting minutes (72 K PDF)
View the agenda (126 K PDF)

You can view the presentations in various formats below.

Microsoft PowerPoint format:

APS resource RFPs (6.4 MB)
SWAT status report: CATS-EHV subcommittee (675 K)
1400 MW and 2100 MW long-term generation plan maps (355 K)
Palo Verde hub reliability and commercial issues (569 K)
Palo Verde-Yuma project: STEP Meeting Aug. 9, 2005 (95 K)
Grid alert presentation: SWAT Meeting Aug. 23, 2005 (1.7 MB)
2005 SSG-WI economic transmission expansion planning study (133 K)
Wind power resource plan in the SWAT region (1.8 MB)
Proposed principles for WestConnect-SWAT-CCPG regional transmission expansion planning. (55 K)
For access to the 3M presentation "The composite conductor," please contact Patrick Ferguson at pkferguson@mmm.com.

PDF format:

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: May 4, 2005
Time: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Public Service Company of New Mexico
414 Silver SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico

View the meeting minutes (38 K PDF)
View the agenda (24 K PDF)

Microsoft PowerPoint presentations:

ACC requirements (172 KB PPT)
SWAT CATS-HV 2005 study plan (37 KB PPT)
Colorado River Transmission Planning Committee status update (397 KB PPT)
RTWG presentation (848 KB PPT)
2005 SSG-WI economic transmission expansion planning study (763 KB PPT)
WestConnect and SWAT Formalized Relationship (69 KB PPT)
WestConnect (470 KB PPT)
Western Assessment Group (234 KB PPT)

SWAT Oversight Committee meeting
Date: April 28, 2004
Location: APS Learning Center, Phoenix, AZ
View the agenda (91K PDF)

CREPC/SSG-wi coordination meeting
Date: April 6, 2004
Location: Portland, OR

View the presentation (4.7MB PDF)

SWAT meeting at PNM
Date: March 4, 2004
Location: PNM

View the agenda (124K PDF)
View the minutes (161K PDF)
View the Northeast 2003 Blackout Implications presentation (50K PDF)
View the Web site proposal presentation (25K PDF)

SWAT Transmission Planning committee meeting at SRP
Date: Jan. 14, 2004
Location: SRP

View the minutes (131K PDF)
View the SSG-WI study results presentation (1.6MB PDF)

SWAT kickoff meeting Date: Nov. 18, 2003
Location: Albuquerque, NM

View the agenda (86K PDF)
View the minutes (161K PDF)
View the presentation (3.7MB PDF)

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