News Analysis
With power markets now regional, the Pacific Northwest ponders responsibility for blackouts and outages.
The Limited Liability Agreement ensures that the RTO West cannot sue the [RTO West utilities] for their ordinary negligence, limits damages for gross negligence and willful conduct, and prevents the RTO West from recouping damages for its own willful or negligent conduct," say the Industrial Customers of Northwest Utilities and Direct Service Industries in their joint filing in the RTO West proceedings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
"RTO West should not be permitted to become the liability sugar-daddy for those Transmission Owners executing the [transmission operating agreement] and the Liability Agreement," says Deseret Generation and Transmission Cooperative Inc., which owns transmission assets within the contemplated RTO West system but was kept out of the negotiations leading up to the "Stage 1" proposal.
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With power markets now regional, the Pacific Northwest ponders responsibility for blackouts and outages.
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