Conditional firm

From Interwest Energy Alliance Wiki

Conditional Firm Service: A tariff proposal under consideration both at Bonneville Power Administration and in the FERC 888 OATT Reform NOPR. Conditional Firm service would be long-term, and firm for a pre-defined number of months during the year, combined with a specified number of hours over a set number of “conditional” months when firm transmission service may not be provided. This can allow the transmission provider to offer more service and potentially serve new resources that would otherwise not be able to get on line.

From "Draft Action Plans," issued by the July 2006 NWCC/WGA Leadership Forum on "Implementing Transmission Recommendations in the West," at [1]