# Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation by Transmission Owning and Operating Public Utilities
> **US Department of Energy** · Order on rehearing and clarification. · Published 2012-05-31 · Effective 2012-07-02 · 77 FR 32184
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-12418
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Energy
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 32184
- **CFR reference:** 18 CFR 35
- **Publication date:** 2012-05-31
- **Effective date:** 2012-07-02
- **Energy docket:** Docket No. RM10-23-001
## Abstract

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission affirms its basic determinations in Order No. 1000, amending the transmission planning and cost allocation requirements established in Order No. 890 to ensure that Commission-jurisdictional services are provided at just and reasonable rates and on a basis that is just and reasonable and not unduly discriminatory or preferential. This order affirms the Order No. 1000 transmission planning reforms that: Require that each public utility transmission provider participate in a regional transmission planning process that produces a regional transmission plan; provide that local and regional transmission planning processes must provide an opportunity to identify and evaluate transmission needs driven by public policy requirements established by state or federal laws or regulations; improve coordination between neighboring transmission planning regions for new interregional transmission facilities; and remove from Commission-approved tariffs and agreements a federal right of first refusal. This order also affirms the Order No. 1000 requirements that each public utility transmission provider must participate in a regional transmission planning process that has: A regional cost allocation method for the cost of new transmission facilities selected in a regional transmission plan for purposes of cost allocation and an interregional cost allocation method for the cost of new transmission facilities that are located in two neighboring transmission planning regions and are jointly evaluated by the two regions in the interregional transmission coordination process required by this Final Rule. Additionally, this order affirms the Order No. 1000 requirement that each cost allocation method must satisfy six cost allocation principles.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/05/31/2012-12418/transmission-planning-and-cost-allocation-by-transmission-owning-and-operating-public-utilities)
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