Resolution 13520CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13520
APPROVING EXECUTION OF THE INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT BETWEEN
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY AND THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
POWER AGENCY (NCPA) AND NCPA PARTICIPANTS, AND AUTHORIZING
NEGOTIATION AND EXECUTION OF THE SCHEDULING COORDINATION
PROGRAM AGREEMENT BETWEEN NCPA AND NCPA PARTICIPANTS
WHEREAS, Alameda Power & Telecom (Alameda P&T), along with other
members of the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), has been receiving
transmission and related services from the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)
under a PG&E Interconnection Agreement (IA) since 1983; and
WHEREAS, the IA is expected to expire on September 1, 2002, and replacement
agreements have to be entered into with PG&E and the California Independent System
Operator (CAISO), the successor transmission system operator that replaced PG&E
after the electricity market deregulation in California in 1998; and
WHEREAS, to transition from PG&E service to CAISO service, Alameda P&T
along with NCPA, other NCPA members, CAISO, and PG&E have to execute a series
of agreements; and
WHEREAS, these agreements provide for operation under the CAISO protocols,
interconnection of the participating NCPA members' electric loads to the transmission
grid, interconnection of NCPA owned generation to the transmission grid, NCPA
representing the members as the Scheduling Coordinator with the CAISO, obligations of
NCPA members to pay for costs that NCPA will incur from the CAISO, obligations of
NCPA to provide services to the members, and other related aspects of transmission
and scheduling services; and
WHEREAS, in order to file these agreements in a timely fashion with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission to commence service by September 1, 2002, the NCPA
Commission has authorized NCPA to enter into a number of the required agreements;
and
WHEREAS, to fully implement the agreements signed by NCPA, Alameda P&T
seeks City Council authority for execution of two agreements that will commit Alameda
P&T to agreements signed by NCPA, and commit Alameda P&T to pay NCPA for
charges incurred on its behalf.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Alameda hereby approves the following agreements and authorizes Alameda P &T to
execute in substantially the form submitted the Interconnection Agreement Between
Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the Northern California Power Agency and City
of Alameda, City of Biggs, City of Gridley, City of Healdsburg, City of Lodi, City of
Lompoc, City of Palo Alto, City of Ukiah, and Plumas- Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative,
and authorizes Alameda P &T to negotiate and execute the Northern California Power
Agency Scheduling Coordination Program Agreement.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on the 20th
day of August, 2002, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, DeWitt, Johnson, Kerr, and
Mayor Appezzato - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this
21st day of August, 2002.
Lara Weisiger, City CI-rk
City of Alameda