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20091231-0037 FERC PDF (Unofficia1) 12/29/2009
Direct Testimony of Charles A. White
Docket ERI 0-_-000
Page 15 of 17
Exhibit No. SCE-6
GridSouth to have a reasonable chance of completion within the December 15,2001 time
2 frame required by Order No. 2000. SCE&G, through GridSouth's Management
3 Committee, carefully evaluated every aspect of the project in an attempt to control cost.
4 Each of the many decisions made during the course of the project was made with an eye
5 toward reducing costs to customers in the long term. Some of the principal cost control
6 decisions were:
7 (i) Selecting software solutions that were both industry standard solutions and ones
8 that had been tested and proven by prior application;
9 (ii) Selecting system operations software that was compatible with the system control
IO software and information systems in use in the GridSouth member utilities;
II (iii) Integrating meter information and data flows from the existing utility control
12 centers into the system operations computer system rather than reproducing metering and
13 information flows independently;
14 (iv) Deferring any decision concerning implementation of real time balancing and
15 congestion management until the need for such mechanisms could be cost justified;
16 (v) Using utility personnel to displace higher cost resources from outside contractors
17 for the implementation of project and related tasks;
18 (vi) Negotiating substantial economic development incentives for locating the
19 headquarters facility in South Carolina;