REGIONAL Studies.doc

Your REGION

Geographical Boundary:

Fuel Sources (Pipelines, Terminals, NG/FO2/FO6 storage, Rivers):
? Coal: (conversion factor, supply source)
? NG: (pipelines, basis to Henry Hub)
? FO2/FO6: (conversion factor, supply source, correlation to CL)

Load Mix:
? Residential / Commercial
? Industrial

Stack:
? Nuke (tot. mw and % of tot. stack, marginal load/cost)
? Coal (same as above)
? NG (same as above)
? FO2/FO6 (same as above)
? Hydro

Historical Outage Cycles:
? Nuke, Coal, NG, FO2/FO6

Seasonal Interchange:
? Import (avg. daily mw and where)
? Export (same as above)

Top 5 Largest Utilities/Operators:
? Service Territory (within this region)
? Stack
? Load Mix

Top 5 Largest Merchant Generators:
? Plant Locations/types

Attach historical load and MWDaily price sheet as last page for most actively traded hub in this region