REGIONAL PLANNING

The Colorado Coordinated Planning Group (CCPG) is a joint, high voltage transmission system planning forum. The purpose is to assure a high degree of reliability in the planning, development and operation of the high voltage transmission system in the Rocky Mountain Region. This is in accordance with the Joint Transmission Access Principles and the Electric Transmission Service Policy Statement, dated Dec. 16, 1991.

The CCPG provides the technical forum required to complete reliability assessments, develop joint business opportunities and accomplish coordinated planning under the single-system planning concept in the Rocky Mountain Region of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council.

Colorado Coordinated Planning Group Officers

Chair: Lindsay Briggs, Black Hills Corporation Association, Inc.
Vice Chair: Mike Korhonen, WAPA
Secretary: Ryan Hubbard, Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Inc.

CCPG Organizational Chart (.pdf)

Colorado Coordinated Planning Group Members

• Basin Electric Power Cooperative
• Black Hills Cooperation
• Colorado Springs Utilities
• Deseret Power
• PacifiCorp
• Platte River Power Authority
• Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc.
• Western Area Power Administration
• Xcel Energy - Public Service Company of Colorado

 

CCPG Subcommittees, Work Groups, Task Forces and Projects

Subcommittees

DEEP
Foothills
Northeast Colorado
San Luis Valley
Southeast Wyoming
Western Slope
WY/SD Common Use  

 

Work Groups

3627 Compliance
Base Case Coordination
Conceptual Planning
Energy Storage
Model Validation
Short Circuit Data Base
TPL Studies
Voltage Coordination

 

Task Forces

DC Tie Expansion
Midway-Poncha Task Force
NxNW
Responsible Energy Plan

Colorado Planning

Rule 3627
Senate Bill 100 Colorado

Projects