REGIONAL PLANNING

Announcement of Stakeholder Outreach  Process for WestConnect Planning Region

Updated April 16, 2025

The Enrolled Transmission Owners in the WestConnect planning region¹ hereby provide notice of their updated anticipated stakeholder outreach process related to their Order 1920 compliance proposal. The stakeholder outreach process will provide opportunities for interested parties to provide feedback on the compliance proposal prior to its filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

On April 1, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission extended the compliance filing deadline for the WestConnect planning region by six months. This announcement updates the January 14, 2025 notice.

The anticipated stakeholder outreach process began in the first quarter of 2025 and consisted of the following sequential steps:

1.  During the first quarter of 2025, the Enrolled Transmission Owners hosted one meeting
     with all interested stakeholders. This meeting included a presentation by the Enrolled
     Transmission Owners on their anticipated approach to Order 1920 compliance. The
     Enrolled Transmission Owners did not anticipate providing draft tariff language for these
     meetings.

2.  Stakeholders were invited to provide written feedback on the material presented during
     these initial meetings within a specified time period (April 16, 2025).

The anticipated remainder of the stakeholder outreach process has been modified to:

3.  In the next few weeks the Enrolled Transmission Owners will post a synthesis of comments
     received on the Order 1920 compliance proposal overview and responses to those
     comments.

4.  During the third quarter of 2025, the Enrolled Transmission Owners will post their
     proposed tariff language for Order 1920 compliance to the WestConnect website.

5.  During the fourth quarter of 2025, Stakeholders will be invited to provide (1) oral feedback
     during an open forum and (2) written feedback on the proposed tariff changes within a
     specified time period.

Registration information for these stakeholder meetings will be posted in advance on the westconnect.com website. Interested stakeholders may also ask to be added to a distribution list for the registration information once it is available. If you would like to be added to that list, please send an email with your name and contact information to  Order1920@westconnect.com.

Please note that the stakeholder process described in this notice is separate from the state engagement process with Relevant State Entities² that began on October 28, 2024, and is currently ongoing.

Stakeholders may communicate with the Enrolled Transmission Owners in the WestConnect planning region regarding the stakeholder outreach process by sending any questions or comments to Order1920@westconnect.com.

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¹The Enrolled Transmission Owners include: Arizona Public Service Company; Basin Electric Power Cooperative; Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC; Black Hills Power, Inc.; Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power Company; Deseret Power Electric Cooperative; El Paso Electric Company; Public Service Company of Colorado; Public Service Company of New Mexico; Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc.; Tucson Electric Power Company; and UNS Electric, Inc.

²Order No. 1920 at P 1355 defines Relevant State Entities “as any state entity responsible for electric utility regulation or siting electric transmission facilities within the state or portion of a state located in the transmission planning region, including any state entity as may be designated for that purpose by the law of such state.” All other capitalized terms used in this notice have the meaning provided in FERC Order No. 1920.