On Sept. 16, 2009, Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC (Oncor) filed three CCN applications for transmission lines associated with the Texas CREZ projects. Docket No. 37407 – Application for the Tonkawa-Sweetwater East-Central Bluff 345 kV CREZ Transmission Line in Scurry, Mitchell, Fisher, Nolan, and Taylor Counties Docket No. 37408 – Application for the Riley-Bowman 345 […]
LCRA and Staff Request Delays In Hill Country CREZ Applications
On Sept. 16, 2009, LCRA Transmission Services Corporation (LCRA) and the Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas filed a motion to delay the filing dates of some CREZ Priority Projects and requested emergency relief in the form of Commission action at the earliest opportunity including, if possible, at the Open Meeting for Sept. […]
What Are the PUC’s Criteria for Approving a CCN Application?
Landowners and others involved in transmission line cases before the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) often ask about the standards or criteria for approving a transmission line. The PUC has both statutory and regulatory guidelines that it must follow when it reviews proposed transmission lines. Public Utilities Regulatory Act (PURA) Sec. 37.056(c) establishes the […]
Oncor Files Sweetwater-Area CREZ CCN Application
On Sept. 16, 2009, Oncor submitted its application for a CCN for a proposed transmission line in Docket No. 37407. The proposed project will consist of two new double-circuit 345 kV transmission lines. The first line will extend from Oncor’s existing Tonkawa Switching Station, located approximately 16.8 miles west/northwest of Sweetwater in Scurry County to […]
ETT Files Application for CCN Authority
Electric Transmission Texas, LLC (ETT) filed on September 11, 2009, in Docket No. 37547 an application for CCN authority to alleviate uncertainty created by the Travis County District Court’s reversal of the Commission’s December 2007 grant of a transmission-only CCN to ETT. After the District Court issued its judgment, the Legislature enacted House Bill 3309, […]
ALJ Finds SPS Wheeler Co. Application Sufficient, Sets Procedural Schedule
On Sept. 10, in Order No. 2, the ALJ assigned to the Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS) Wheeler County CCN application in Docket No. 37260 deemed the application sufficient and materially complete. The ALJ also approved SPS’s published notice and notice sent to affected landowners, neighboring utilities, and county and municipal officials. The intervention deadline […]
ALJ Finds Oncor’s Collin Co. Application and Notice Deficient
On Sept. 10, in Order No. 2, the ALJ assigned to Oncor’s Collin County application in Docket No. 37232 found Oncor’s application and notice deficient. Oncor previously responded that it would supplement its application and notice. The intervention deadline is extended for 45 days after the supplemental notice is sent to directly affected landowners, municipalities, […]
Staff Identifies Deficiencies in Oncor’s Collin Co. CCN Application
Commission Staff filed on September 4th its recommendation in Docket No. 37232 on the sufficiency of the application and notice and addressed other procedural matters. The recommendation identified one deficiency in the application and eight deficiencies in Oncor’s notices to landowners. The application was found to be materially deficient in that it failed to provide […]
Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative Requests Docket for Application
Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Trinity Valley) requested today the issuance of a CCN Docket Number for an application for a proposed 138 kV transmission line in Kaufman County, Texas. The request was assigned to Docket No. 37442. The letter requesting the docket stated that Trinity Valley intends to file its application this week.
Oncor Files Response to Staff’s Recommendation in Collin Co. CCN Application
On September 9th, Oncor filed its response to the Commission Staff’s recommendation on the sufficiency of its application and notice in Docket No. 37232, Oncor’s application for a proposed 138 kV transmission line in Collin County. In its filing, Staff recommended that the application be found deficient because it did not provide sufficient detail regarding parks […]