On January 19, 2016, FERC Staff issued a white paper entitled,
"Guidance Principles for Clean Power Plan Modeling."
Additionally, on January 27, 2016, NERC issued a special
reliability assessment entitled, "Reliability Considerations
for Clean Power Plan Development." Each document is aimed at
assisting various industry stakeholders with the implementation of
EPA's Clean Power Plan while maintaining grid reliability.
The FERC Staff white paper identifies four guiding principles
that may assist transmission planning entities in conducting an
effective analysis of the Clean Power Plan and associated state,
federal, or multi-state compliance plans. The four guiding
principles focus on: (1) transparency and stakeholder engagement;
(2) study methodology and interactions between studies; (3) study
inputs, sensitivities, and probabilistic analysis; and (4) tools
and techniques. FERC Staff explains that focusing on these guiding
principles may assist transmission planning
