Regional Transmission Expansion Planning (RTEP) is an activity that the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) is coordinating. With direction and funding from the Department of Energy (DOE), WECC developed the Transmission Expansion Planning Policy Committee (TEPPC) to manage these activities. The goal is to broaden stakeholder involvement in transmission planning. These activities will evaluate long-term regional transmission needs that factor in variables including electric demand, generation resources, energy policies, technology costs, impacts on transmission reliability, and emissions. The resulting transmission plans will hopefully provide high quality, credible information on transmission infrastructure requirements to decision makers at all levels.
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