PSC Staff Goes After PJM Assumptions – What’s in the Black Box?

The PSC staff filed their first interrogatories on the power companies today.  The document is on the PSC Web site here.

If you are an intervenor in the PATH case, you need to check the PSC Web site every day so see motions and filings.  Things are starting to happen in the case.

The PSC staff does an excellent job of requesting information about the assumptions underlying assertions made by PJM engineers Herling and McGlynn about the need for PATH in the power companies application.

Questions asked PJM to produce any documentation they have concerning their optimistic predictions of increasing power demand in 2010 from an economic recovery, documentation of all power flows used in PJM RTEP development and documentation of all technical assumptions underlying the RTEP, including assumptions about transmission and generation capacity.

Good stuff.  PSC staff is getting off to a great start.