Appendix J: Local Advisory Committee Report on the Social-Economic Benefits of Ele lectricity Options Presentation by Larry Doran
A A - Executive Summary Both the evaluation of options and resultant recommendations in the Greenstone- Marathon Integrated Regional Resource Plan (IRRP) are seriously flawed.
A A - Executive Summary This flawed analysis results from the following: • The IESO’s definition of “least societal cost options” fails to adequately reflect the true social-economic costs and benefits of the different options on the local communities; • The IESO analysis does not adequately recognize that options that provide future flexibility are extremely beneficial to long term planning; • The IESO’s Ontario Resource and Transmission Assessment Criteria (ORTAC) as interpreted in this IRRP discriminates against electricity consumers in Northern Ontario; and • The IESO has failed to properly address recent reliability data with respect to circuit A4L.
A A - Executive Summary The best near term and long term options for the Greenstone portion of the sub-region all begin with the immediate commencement of a new 230 kV transmission line to the Geraldton area. The Province needs to declare this 230 kV transmission line as a “priority project”.
B B - Social-Economic Analysis of f Options by Local Communities The residents of the Municipality of Greenstone deserve to have their basic infrastructure needs met in a manner at least roughly equivalent to other Ontario residents. The IESO’s mandate and its definition of “societal costs” is so limited that its approach to regional planning fails to meet the needs of Northern Ontario.
C C - Benefits to Long Term Pla lanning of f Fle lexible Options Regional planning should recognize that options that provide future flexibility are inherently preferable to options that either limit or preclude future options. This is particularly true when different options have similar near term costs.
C C - Benefits to Long Term Pla lanning of f Fle lexible Options T he 230 kV line offers everything the IESO’s recommended Stage 1 offers plus much more flexibility for the future and greater benefits in both the near term and the long term: • - An immediate solution to the A4L reliability issues; • - Economic opportunities for the local First Nations; • - A first step towards a supply to the Ring of Fire and the remote Matawa First Nations; and • - Most of what is required to supply Energy East.
D D - How ORTAC Dis iscri riminates Against Northern Ontario Communities An 8 hour maximum discriminates against Northern Ontario communities because it fails to recognize that an 8 hour outage to a 200 km wide area of the Province at -40C has vastly different implications to consumers and communities than a similar sized load in a 10 km wide area of Southern Ontario at -5C . Only in Northern Ontario are there radial transmission lines of the length of A4L with no means of backup.
E E - Reliability Performance of f A4L The A4L has failed to meet the reliability standard for four years straight yet the IESO concludes that it “does not believe further reliability-based investments are justified” .
E E - Reliability Performance of f A4L This combination of an extended period of substandard forced outage combined with significant “planned outages” over such a large geographic area is only permitted to exist in Northern Ontario.
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