At a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) hearing on March 18, 2010, Tres Amigas LLC received responses on the regulatory filings it submitted regarding the Tres Amigas SuperStation.

At the hearing, Chairman Jon Wellinghoff said, “This project, which is the first of its kind, will allow customers to trade power across the interconnections and to take advantage of opportunities to buy lower-cost power from other regions. It may also open a new transmission path for customers interested in tapping the vast renewable energy potential in many parts of the country — Texas, the Southwest, the West and Northwest, the Southeast and the offshore Atlantic.”

FERC granted Tres Amigas approval to sell transmission services for the SuperStation at negotiated rates. The commission stated that, upon receipt of an application under Federal Power Act sections 210 and 211, it could issue orders pursuant to those sections to allow Tres Amigas to proceed and interconnect with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) without conferring FERC jurisdiction over ERCOT utilities.

“We will be pursuing strategies to achieve the requisite disclaimer of FERC jurisdiction over ERCOT within the confines of the FERC order to provide Texas citizens with the opportunity to benefit from the cost advantages of a broader market,” said Phil Harris, CEO of Tres Amigas. “In addition, our team will be focusing in the weeks ahead on negotiating interconnection agreements with transmission companies, finalizing agreements with ‘anchor tenants’ for the SuperStation, raising additional financing for the next phase of our project and issuing RFPs for HVDC converters and storage batteries.”

The SuperStation will be located in Clovis, New Mexico, and will provide, for the first time, the capability to transfer thousands of megawatts of power between the three U.S. power grids: the Eastern Interconnection, the Western Interconnection and the Texas Interconnection (ERCOT).

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