Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
Effective Business Practices
(BPs) Common to all of WAPA's Regions
Last Update:
04/11/2025, Posting of updated Project Description
and Site Assessment Business Practice (Effective 04/11/2025)
The following are the currently effective versions of the Business
Practices (BPs) that are common and identical across all
of WAPA's Regional Offices, which includes (DSW, RMR,
SNR, and UGP - See Note 1). The BPs apply to the
NERC identified TSPs: CRCM, LAPT, WALC, WAPA,
WASN. Additional BPs specific only to an
individual Region/TSP are also posted on that TSP's
OASIS under the "Business Practices" folder.
Note 1.
The UGP Region joined the Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (SPP)
as a transmission owner and transferred functional control
of all of its eligible transmission facilities to SPP on
October 1, 2015. Transmission service and certain
other services over
those UGP Regional transmission facilities are available
solely under the SPP Open Access Transmission Tariff (SPP
Tariff). Ancillary services offered by the UGP
Region as a Balancing Authority operator are also solely
available under the SPP Tariff. Therefore, certain WAPA BPs
may not be currently applicable, or have limited applicability, in
the UGP Region.
Base Case Data BP (Order 845)
Behind the Meter Generation Policy
Business Practice Creation & Update Process
Conditional Firm Transmission Service
Contingent Facilities BP (Order 845)
Creditworthiness BP & Checklist
Critical Energy Infrastructure Information
(CEII) Policy *
Curtailments
Business Practice
Digital
Signatures Business Practice
- Currently Allowed Digital
Signature Methods
Effective
Date of Gen Power Factor Reqmts under Order
827
General Requirements for Interconnection (GRI) (NEW
-- Updated
WAPA-Wide BP
-- Effective 02/18/2025)
Implementation
Requirements under Order 842 Changes BP
Int Reqs Below Gen Fac Capacity BP (Order 845)
LGIA Option to Build Business Practice
Network Integration Transmission Service
(NITS) *
Network Upgrades Policy **
Non-Disclosure
Agreement (NDA) Form (NEW -- Updated
WAPA-Wide BP
-- Effective
07/24/2024)
Option to Build BP (Order 845)
Planning Redispatch Service
Project
Description and Site Assessment (NEW
-- Updated
WAPA-Wide BP
-- Effective 04/11/2025)
Provisional Interconnection Service BP (Order 845)
Resale of Transmission Rights **
Right of First Refusal
Rollover Rights
Rate Schedules MadePartOf Service
Agreements **
Simultaneous Submission Window Processing
Surplus Interconnection Service BP (Order 845)
Transmission Outage Crediting Policy
Transmission Service Redirects
Transmission Timing Requirements **
TSR Annulment
Business Practice
WAPA Meter
Policy
WAPA OATT - Attachment K Policy Statement
* These BPs outline submissions to be sent to "Regional Contact(s) as posted on
OASIS". Those specific WAPA Regional contact(s)
are listed below, and transmittals should be sent to the
contacts listed, as noted, for that specific Regional office.
** This BP has limited applicability to WAPA's UGP Region,
given its membership in SPP as noted above, and will not be
applicable to certain services on the transmission facilities
that UGP has transferred functional control of to SPP, and for
which such service is offered under the SPP Tariff.
Any questions/submissions can be directed to your specific WAPA Regional Contacts.
Previous Updates:
February 18, 2025, Posting
of updated General Requirements for Interconnection (Effective
02/18/2025)
December 14, 2021, Posting of new Order 845 Implementation
Related BPs (Effective 12/15/2021)
August 3, 2021, Posting of EA/EIS Clause updates on OATT
Documents page, and new Digital Signatures BP (Effective
07/27/2021)
February 22, 2021, Posting of Updated "CEII Policy" and "NDA
Form" BPs (Effective 02/23/2021)
January 25, 2021, Posting of Updated "Transmission Timing
Requirements" BP (Effective 01/26/2021)
February 27, 2020, Posting of New "Implementation Requirements
under Order 842 Changes" BP (Effective 03/05/2020)
February 11, 2020, Posting of New "Effective Date of Gen Power
Factor Reqmts under Order 827" BP (Effective 02/11/2020)
June 3, 2019, Posting of Updated Transmission Resales BP, New
WAPA-wide Timing Requirements BP, and New Rate Schedules
MadePartOf Service Agreements BP (Effective 06/03/2019)
July 20, 2018, Posting of Updated WAPA Meter Policy (Effective
07/20/2018)
May 1,
2018, Posting of Updated Network Service BP (Effective
05/01/2018)
February
22, 2018, Posting of Updated Network Upgrades Policy BP
July
25, 2017, Posting of Updated Behind the Meter (BTM) Generation
and General Requirements for Interconnection (GRI) BPs
January
9, 2017, Posting of Updated TSR Annulments BP
June
23, 2016, General updates to Logo, Regional contact information,
etc.
January
1, 2016, Posting of New Curtailments BP