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2007 Database &

Lessons Learned

WECC - TEPPCTechnical Advisory Subcommittee Meeting

San Francisco, CANovember 28, 2007

Jamie AustinPacifiCorp

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DWG Progress Report

Loads Fuel Prices Resources: Thermal, Hydro Emission Transmission Capital costs data

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Room for Improvement

Loads DSM Efficiencies

Transmission Nomograms Phase Shifters Paths

Rating

Thermal Resources Merged SSG-WI & TEPPC

thermal data (50-50) CCCTs

Emission – Darrell Holmes, SCE Have draft EPA data by

fuel type – working on validation

contact person on vacation

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Pending

CCCTs Use the SSG-WI

generic data - fix minimum block Heat Rate

Dynamic Hydro Related impacts: all

energy sources

RPS NREL 10 Minute

Data

Capital Costs : will evaluate the CEC and Frontier’s levelized costs for different technologies.

Looking at forming a Focus Work Groups

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Lessons Learned New process, New Model, New staff members – too many “News” Involve the effected workgroups early in the process when making

changes to any of the fundamentals (e.g. changing thermal data). Why not use some of the FERC rules here? Openness and transparency Coordination Quality control

Coordination – as it applies to the four TAS committees - revisit the organizational structure. One fix may be as simple as adding facilitation to coordinate between committees.