[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 81 (Thursday, April 26, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24949-24950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10062]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. AD12-10-000]
Reactive Power Resources; Supplemental Notice Requesting Comments
On April 17, 2012, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff
(Staff) held a technical conference to examine whether the Commission
should reconsider or modify the reactive power provisions of Order No.
661-A and examine what evidence could be developed under Order No. 661
to support a request to apply reactive power requirements more broadly
than to individual wind generators during the interconnection study
process.
At the conference, discussion items included: The technical and
economic characteristics of different types of
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reactive power resources, including synchronous and asynchronous
generation resources, transmission resources and energy storage
resources; the design options for and cost of installing reactive power
equipment at the time of interconnection as well as retrofitting a
resource with reactive power equipment; other means by which reactive
power is currently secured such as through self-supply; and how a
technology that is capable of providing reactive power but may not be
subject to the generation interconnection process (e.g., FACTs) would
be analyzed. The staff and participants discussed information on
methods used to determine the reactive power requirements for a
transmission system and how system impact and system planning studies
take into account changes in technologies connected to the system.
Persons wishing to comment on these issues should submit written
comments to the Commission no later than May 21, 2012.
Dated: April 20, 2012.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-10062 Filed 4-25-12; 8:45 am]
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