Staff Contact:  Julie Baldwin 
  Join  MPSC-30KWANDLARGER Workgroup

The Commission's  Order, dated February 27, 2007, directed the Engineering Section of the Commission's Operations and Wholesale Markets Division to convene a workgroup with these objectives:

1. Identify reasonable and achievable interconnection time deadlines.
2. Propose a system for determining whether interconnection costs are reasonable, actual costs.
3. Study the impacts and benefits of requiring utilities to consult with transimission providers when certain interconnection applications are filed (for distribution-level interconnections).
4. Investigate the impacts and benefits of requiring all generators to maintain an acceptable power factor.
5. Develop criteria for identification of areas of opportunity for distributed generation on each utility's distribution system.