WestConnect Developer Selection Task Force Members,

Please see the email below and the attached document related to today’s discussion regarding cost allocation versus cost recovery in the WestConnect process.

Thank you!

Heidi Pacini | 661.256.2483 office | 303.229.9401 mobile | Heidi@PacEnergies.com

From: Noailles, Liam D [mailto:Liam.D.Noailles@xcelenergy.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:56 AM
To: Heidi Pacini <heidi@pacenergies.com>
Subject: cost recovery

iii. Commission Determination

344. We find that the comments concerning cost recovery are outside the scope of the instant proceeding. Order No. 1000 did not specify how costs can be recovered for transmission projects that are selected in the regional transmission plan for purposes of cost allocation, a conclusion affirmed in Order No. 1000-A.610 Further, while the Commission stated that, to the extent that cost recovery provisions are considered in connection with a cost allocation method or methods for a regional or interregional transmission facility, public utility transmission providers may include cost recovery provisions in their compliance filings,611 Filing Parties did not include cost recovery provisions in their compliance filings. Therefore, we dismiss the comments concerning cost recovery because they are outside the scope of the instant proceeding.