western electricity coordinating council wecc mis meeting albuquerque april 21, 2009
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Western Electricity Coordinating Council
WECCMIS Meeting
Albuquerque
April 21, 2009
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Major Topics
• VGS Marketing WG
• Pre-schedule Process Regional Criteria
• Intra-hour tagging – MIS assignment
• MIS Charter
• NAESBWG Charter
• Coordination with other subcommittees
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Arrangements
– Telephones
– Restrooms
– Other
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Agenda
– Additions to Agenda
– Changes to Agenda
– Approval of Agenda
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WECC Anti-Trust Guidelines1310
Tice
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WECC Anti-Trust Guidelines
• Prohibited Activities
• Permitted Activities
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MIS Minutes
February 4-5th Meeting
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Tice
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Review/Approve Minutes
– Changes/Corrections
•February 4-5, 2009 Meeting minutes
– Motion to Approve
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Review Action Items
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Tice
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Action Items
MIS – Jan08-3 Update the Issues Process Management Guidelines and present to the MIS at its April meeting (Phil & Mike). STATUS – No progress.
MIS – Feb09-1 Submit a request to NERC/NAESB to revise e-tag protocol to allow source PSE to adjust e-tags (Brenda & Phil). STATUS – Letter being drafted.
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Action Items
MIS – Feb09-2 Chair to send 2009 approved MIS goals for posting. STATUS – Done.
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2009 MIS GoalsReview
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MIS 2009 Proposed Goals Through the MIS NAESB Work Group, support
the MIC in increasing and strengthening the communication of NAESB activities; to assist WECC members in monitoring, understanding, and participating in NAESB activities.
Support the drafting team in developing a WECC-wide merchant reliability communications methodology. (MAP approved at MIC; implementation by June)
Monitor FRR and other proposed reserve policies and evaluate market implications.
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MIS 2009 Proposed Goals
Perform an investigation to identify the obstacles to scheduling normal weekends (Saturday through Monday) on Friday.
Support the MIC in working with the Variable Generation Subcommittee and coordinate market interface issues.
Identify transmission commercial issues that impede energy markets and raise reliability concerns, and facilitate solution to those issues in appropriate forums.
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MIS 2009 Proposed Goals
Evaluate whether markets for merchant resale of transmission are emerging in the west. Determine what, if any, impediments exist.
Outreach to reengage MIS members.
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Update on Activities of Other Groups
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Update on Activities of Other Groups
Board of Directors Joint Guidance Committee MIC, OC, PCC Seams Issues Subcommittee
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NERC/NAESB ATC Drafting TeamWECC Efforts
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Black
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FERC ATC NOPR
• The Commission– Approved all of the ACT Suite
• Subject to modification
– Issues a NOPR • March 19, 2009
– Created some “challenges”• To MOD-29-01
• Others
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FERC ATC NOPR
• Issue Spotting: MOD-29-01– “Remove” MOD-29-01 R2.7
• Eliminate protection of Existing Path ratings• 69 “Existing Rating” Paths in WECC
– Path Rating Catalogue
– Require re-rating• Changes all contracts and models upon which the Existing
Path ratings are predicated
– Compliance in “one year” questionable– Need to respond
• WECC and multiple entities! 20
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FERC ATC NOPR
• Issue Spotting: “Mission Creep”– Make Implementation Documents available to
broader range of entities• “Mission Creep”
• Using NAESB Business Practices – FERC has no jurisdiction over “non-jurisdictionals”
• Using Standards– FERC can sweep in “non-jurisdictionals”
– Slippery slope• Infusing non-reliability issues into reliability standards
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FERC ATC NOPR
• Issue Spotting: Counterflows– Would require greater detail in describing
counter flows• WECC uses “counter schedules”
• Issue Spotting: Treatment of Network Resource Designation– Would require greater detail
• Ramifications to members are unclear
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FERC ATC NOPR
• Issue Spotting: Transparency– FERC would require NERC
• Quickly audit the documents
• Replication of results is essential
• Issue Spotting: TRM– FERC says “to vague”– Lock down the ambiguities
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FERC ATC NOPR
• Informational – VSL and VRF will be filed later– Process under review at NERC
• Can’t be lower than before drafting
• Must be consistently applied
• Based on a single violation and not on a cumulative number of violations
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FERC ATC NOPR
• Informational – Other MODs and FAC
• NERC / FERC agree– Retire MODs 1-9; Changes top 10-25
» Outside scope of the NERC ATC Drafting Team» More work to come
• NERC / FERC disagree– FERC says polish FAC-12– Keep FAC -13
• MODs are “operational” (through 13 months)• FACs are “planning” (14 months and beyond)
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Update on Reserves
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BAL-002-1 Update
• Status– WECC
– NERC
– FERC
• Emerging Views
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Frequency Responsive Reserves
• Drafting Team Update– Second posting comments.
– Changes resulting from second posting.
– FAQ and additional data posting.
– OC vote?
• Questions
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Market Update on Operating Reserves Issues
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WSPP OC Meeting
• Service Schedule C language changes. – “Capacity reserves” language eliminated.– Firm capacity and energy products remain in
separate sections.– Scheduling language changes.
• Preschedule language removed.
• RRO rules language.
• Day ahead and longer transactions.
• All other transactions “real time.”
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WSPP Reserves Issue Task Force
Task force update:– New products and service schedules under
development; not quite ready for prime time.– California Resource Adequacy Capacity.– “Firming Service” (schedule or dynamic).– Contingency Reserve Service.– Capacity.
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Other WSPP Items of Interest
Re-supply in real time; changing source of pre-schedule deal in real time.
Scheduling wind as firm. Wind sales under Service Schedule C. Reserves Schedule, Service Schedule D.
Ancillary Services.
Questions?
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Intra-hour Tagging Task Force
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Intra-hour Transaction Work Group
• MIC formed WG to address item assigned to it in February 24, 2008 disturbance report.
• “The WECC MIC shall initiate an investigation into how it might be able to allow more flexibility in the tagging process, including specifically addressing initiation of tags at times other that the top of the hour.”
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Intra-hour Transaction Work Group• WG submitted request to modify INT-BPS-007-0.• Other groups submitted similar SAR requests.• WG request posted for comments.• Substantial comments received.
– Conflict with NERC Standards– ATC, OASIS, etc.
• SRRC remanded request to submitters for revision.
• WG withdrew the request.• MIC Chair assigned the Disturbance Report item
to the MIS.
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MIS Intra-hour Assignment
• MIS forms a group to address Disturbance Report item.– Scope of work group to perform.
– Deliverables.
– Timeline.
– Participants.
• MIS should consider further action on intra hour schedule issue in WECC.– Prepare whitepaper?
– Draft SAR?
– Other?
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MIS Intra-hour Assignment
• References.– Joint Initiatives Products and Services Strike
Team Whitepaper.– BP in White Paper good starting point for
WECC Regional Criteria.
• Questions & discussion.
• Action and assignments.
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Break1510
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MIS Charter1530Tice
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MIS Charter Background Substantive Charter language from existing
MIS Scope statement. Authority to form task forces, work groups,
etc. to accomplish assigned duties. Governance and Nominating Committee
template for charters. MIS e-mail vote to accept proposed charter
for presentation and potential approval by MIC.
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MIS Charter at MIC Meeting
Issue raised at MIC of MIS Charter containing language referring to standards development.
MIC Charter does not contain specific language on standards development.
WECC Bylaws and Standards Development Process gives such authority to Standing Committees.
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MIS Charter at MIC Meeting
Motion to accept MIS Charter withdrawn. Charter issue remanded to MIC Steering. MIC Steering revised MIS Charter language.
Address “standards” language issue. Add coordinate language.
Revised Charter to MIS for acceptance. Discussion and questions.
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North American Electric
Standards Board Task Force
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NAESB WG Formation
• Take two at the MIS.
• MIS recommendation.– MIS forms NAESB WG.– MIS approval of NAESB WG Charter.
• Discussion.
• Motion.
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NAESBWG Charter
Motion:
• The MIS approves the NAESB Work Group Charter as presented to the Subcommittee at its April 21, 2009 meetings. The MIS chair is instructed to inform the MIC at its next meeting of the Work Group formation and Charter approval by the MIS.
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Recent NAESB Activities• Member Ratified
– Business Practices to support Demand Response and Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency Programs (approved 3/16/09, AP item 5.a)
– Update the Timing Table to Reflect the Categories (On-time, Late, After-the-fact, and Pre-late) used in the latest E-Tag Specification with respect to receipt of an Arranged Interchange (RFI) (approved 3/11/09, AP Item 6.m)
– Continuous Support of TLR Procedure in Alignment with NERC Efforts on Phase II and Phase III (approved 1/12/09, AP Item 1.a.ii)
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Recent NAESB Activities (cont.)
• Member Ratified– Rollover Rights on Redirect on a Firm Basis
(approved 1/12/09, AP Item 2.a.iv.3,3.a.vii and 6.l)
– Capacity Benefits Margin (CBM) (approved 12/5/08, AP Items 2.b.iii.1-3)
– Modifications to the Certificate of Incorporation (approved 11/21/08)
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Recent NAESB Activities (cont.) • NAESB Board Meeting – March 26, 2009
• 2009 Annual Plan Items1. Develop BPS as needed to complement reliability standards
2. Develop BPS to support FERC RM-05-25 and RM 05-17 (OATT Reform)
3. Develop BPS to improve market operations and develop and maintain BPS and communication standards for OASIS and Electronic Scheduling
4. Develop BPS for Demand Response, Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency
5. Maintain Version 002 standards
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Current NAESB Activities
• Formal Comment due April 27, 2009– 2009 WEQ Annual Plan Item 3.d – “Order 717,
Standards of Conduct” http://www.naesb.org/pdf4/weq_2009_ap_3d_rec.doc
• Informal Comment due May 6, 2009– e-Tag Specification Version 1.8.1
http://www.naesb.org/pdf4/weq_jiswg031909reqcom_a2_etag_spec.doc
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Current NAESB Activities (cont.)Formal Comment due May 13, 2009
– 2009 WEQ Annual Plan Item 6.a.2/R08004 – “WEQ-011 Consistency changes to include Introduction and Applicability sections” http://www.naesb.org/pdf4/weq_2009_api_6a2_r08004_rec.doc
– 2009 WEQ Annual Plan Item 2.a.ii.3 – “Rollover Rights on Redirect on a Firm Basis” http://www.naesb.org/pdf4/weq_2009_api_2aii3_rec.doc
• Wholesale Electric Quadrant Executive Committee Meeting – May 12, 2009
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NAESB FERC Activities• Version 002 filed with FERC – August 29, 2008
http://www.naesb.org/pdf3/ferc082908_order_890_filing.pdf
• Version 002.1 filed with FERC – February 19, 2009http://www.naesb.org/pdf4/ferc021909_weq_v002.1_with_appendices.pdfDocket No. RM05-5-013
• FERC issued NOPR – March 19, 2009http://www.naesb.org/pdf4/ferc031909nopr_weq_version_2.1.doc
• Comments due to FERC – May 26, 2009
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NAESB WECC Activities• May 7, 2009 – WECC’s NAESB Workshop
– Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah May 7, 2009 1-4pm
• May 14, 2009 – Next NAESB Work Group Conference Call
• NAESB Work Group is open to all WECC members– Contact Shay LaBray to join:
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Prescheduling Evaluation Task Force
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PETF Completion
• MIC accepted Preschedule Evaluation Task Force Report.
• MIS chair instructed to release task force.
• MIC expressed appreciation to all task force participants.
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Merchant Communication Drafting Team
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Nebrigich & Tice
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Status - Merchant Alert Protocol
• MIC approved guideline.– Implementation by June 1, 2009.– Inform membership.– MIS chair to suspend guideline if use excessive.
• OC presentation went well.
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Status - Merchant Alert Protocol
• Next Steps– Drafting team working with westTrans and
OATI on implementation. – Establish excessive use criteria.– Implement guideline.
• Questions.
• Contact – Chris or Steve Kerns - BPA
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Coordination with other Subcommittees Discussion
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Subcommittee Coordination Discussion
• What’s being discussed.– Staff review of agenda before meeting.– Conversation between chairs after meetings.– Joint Guidance meetings.
• WECC Bylaws section 4.9 Review.
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Subcommittee Coordination Discussion
• What’s being discussed.– Committee chair discussion with RPIC.– MIS meeting coordination with other
subcommittees.
• MIS discussion of benefits and burdens of aligning meetings with other subcommittees.
• Direction from discussion.
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Adjourn
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WECCMIS Meeting
Albuquerque
April 22, 2009
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MRTU Implementation Update0800
Shultz & Sullivan
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WECC Due Process Discussion0820
Black
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“The Process”Focus on the Criteria
W. Shannon Black
Manager, Business Practices and Standards Processes
April 22, 2009
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Process for Developing and Approving WECC Standards• Definitions
– “Standard” • “In the context of this document, the term Standard refers
to a Reliability Standard or a commercial Business Practice.”
• Commercial Business practices are treated the same as a Criterion
• Ramification– Drafting a criterion looks just like a drafting a
standard– Criterion are expected to be followed
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Measures and Compliance
• Criterion (Step 11 of the Process)– “As of the effective date of such new or
modified Standard, all industry participants in the Western Interconnection that such Standard is applicable to are expected to implement and abide by the Standard.”
• Without a measure how do we know?
• Compliance is being debated
• Not Raising the Bar– Reminding WECC where the bar lies
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Representation
• It’s Your Process – Use it!– Input into Standing Committee assignment– Participate drafting / all are welcome– Comment / Suggest remedies
• Be part of the answer
– Vote on the final product• Submit comments again at the Standing Committee
– APPEAL!
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Step 1 – Request To Revise or Develop a Standard
• Must be “Complete”– Are all the applicable blanks filled in?– Is the issue clear to the uninitiated?– Do the Applicable Entities have a
corresponding Requirement?– Extrinsic documents included?– Is the goal of the work product clearly stated?– If you personally cannot answer the questions,
use a task force or work group
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Step 1 – Request To Revise or Develop a Standard• Benchmark
– If you submitted the Request to NERC – what would be the result?
• Submitted to the “standards” email address– No other authorized medium for submission
• The Request defines the “drafting” scope of drafter’s authority– Different from scope of the criterion
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Scope
• Must be in “Scope”– Mission
• Does it support reliability of Western Interconnection?
• Does it support efficient competitive power markets?
• Does it support open and non-discriminatory transmission access among WECC members
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Scope
– Mandates• Does it violate any known NERC Reliability
Standards?
• Does it violate any article of the WECC By-Laws?
• Does it violate any known existing regulatory mandate? (E.g. state or local laws and regulations)
– Magnitude• Does this affect WECC only?
• Do we have authority to do it?
• Contravene or modify NERC or other mandates?
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Step 2 – Request Validation and Routing
• Assigned by SRRC to Standing Committee
– Input from the industry is requested and considered
– Drafting team vs. standing committee subgroup• Announcements made to state the choice
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Step 3 – Subgroup Begins Drafting Phase and Announces on WECC Web Site
• Structure / Use the Templates– Requirements
• Identify the Applicable Party– Must use the Functional Model
• Identify the specific task– Perhaps specify when, where and how
• Tasks must be in mandatory language / not subjective
– Measures• Mirror the requirements / Some evidence
– Compliance• Under debate
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Steps 4 and 5: Draft and Deliberate
• Step 4 – Posted for Comment• First posting is 45-days – all others 30-days
• Step 5 – Deliberates on Comments– Each and every comment must be answered
• A clear question evokes a clear answer– Ask a friend “Do you understand my question?”
• Suggest a remedy– Otherwise…the answer may create other issues you has
not considered
– Use your peers
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Step 6 – Subgroup Submits Draft for Standing Committee/Interested Stakeholder
• Vote to bring to ballot– Only a majority vote of the drafting team is
required– No quorum is stated– “Must be present to win.”
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Step 7 – Standing Committee Vote on Recommendation to Board
• Vote to accept as drafted– Remember your WECC role – for the
Interconnection
– Check your philosophies• Is you vote based on your own agenda or the best
interests of the Interconnection?
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Close it Out / For another Day
• Step 8 – Appeals Process
• Step 9 – Board Approval
• Step 10 – ERO Review, FERC Approval and Implementation of Reliability Standards
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Questions
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Pre-schedule Process Regional Criteria Update
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Background Pre-schedule Process • MIS submitted Regional Criteria request.• The Objectives:
– Codify the pre-schedule process.– To the fullest extent practical, pre-scheduling
should occur the day before the flow day. – Establish a pre-schedule process that aligns, as
close as possible, electric and gas trading days. – Develop and document pre-schedule process
definitions and descriptions.
• MIC assigned to develop Regional Criteria
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Drafting Team Activities • Draft criterion includes:
– Definitions.– Requirement to preschedule.– Submission deadline; exception for CISO
delays. – Weekend, holiday and new month exceptions.– Rules for determining advanced pre-schedule
days.– WECC creates pre-schedule calendar.
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Drafting Team Schedule
• Target is to post for comment in late April – An initial draft of criterion.– Drafting team questions to the industry.
• Comments from MIS and MIC important.• Criteria to MIC for approval at October
2009 meeting possible.
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Drafting Team Schedule
• Future Drafting Team conference calls.– April 23rd - 11 AM-1PM MPT.– May 4th - 11 AM-1PM MPT.– May 18th - 11 AM-1PM MPT.– June 3rd - 11 AM-1PM MPT.– Posted on WECC web site.
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Drafting Team Contacts
• Phil Tice – Chair• Luis Zaragoza – Vice Chair.• Shannon Black – WECC Staff.
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Pre-schedule Process
• Discussion & Questions.
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MIS Charter Acceptance 0900Tice
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Amended MIS Charter
Motion:
• The MIS accepts the Charter as presented to the Subcommittee at its April 21, 2009 meeting. The MIS chair is instructed to present the Charter to the MIC for approval at its next meeting.
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Discussion of VGS Marketing Work Group Work Plan
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VGS Organization
• VGS formed by Joint Guidance Committee.• Vehicle to coordinate work by Committees and
Subcommittees on VG.• Develop recommendations for reliable and cost
effective methods of integrating VG.• Four Work Groups.
– Operating.– Planning.– Marketing.– Technology.
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VGS Identified Issues
• Ensure the VGS is aware of and participates in relevant NERC and NAESB activities
• Energy delivery capacity, and generation scheduling of VG resources
• Effects of a REC market on VG placements, energy marketing, and system reliability.
• Ancillary service requirements, and new and/or enhanced delivery mechanisms
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Work Group Collaboration
Issue WG Lead Proposed Collaboration With
Recommend Methodologies for determining ancillary service requirements
OWG MWG
Recommend market based methods of supplying ancillary service requirements
MWG OWG
Transmission Capacity Assignment for VG Resources MWG PWG or OWG
Evaluating REC Markets MWG OWG NERC IVGTF Report PWG OWG Centralized Database for VG Information PWG MWG, OWG, and TWG
Performance Requirements for VG Technologies TWG OWG
Complementary Technologies to Aid in the Integration of VG TWG MWG, OWG, and PWG
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Marketing WG Activities
• Follow and report on NAESB activities
• Investigate transmission capacity assignment for VG resources
• Investigate firm scheduling of VG resources
• Evaluate the impacts of REC markets
• Determine ancillary service requirements and Investigate new approaches to address how ancillary services will be supplied for VGVGS formed by Joint Guidance Committee.
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Marketing WG Activities
• Follow pertinent NAESB Activities.
• Initial thoughts?
• NAESBWG liaison
• What topics of interest to MWG
• Demand side management
• Real time NAESB activities.
• NAESBWG assemble list of possible items of interest to MWG.
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Marketing WG Activities
• Determine how VG resources on a transmission network be assigned transmission capacity when their output is variable? Collaborate with PWG, OWG, & MIC.
• Initial thoughts? • EPC for capacity tag for VG.• Explore capacity tags for other than CR.• Is this from perspective of TC or TP.• Competition between types of VG resources..
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Marketing WG Activities
• Determine what portion of VG resources should be counted as firm? Create a reporting standard and come up with a number. Collaborate with MIC.
• Initial thoughts?• Does this really mean capacity?• What does firm mean to this WG?• What is the mix of the VG resources?• Market vs planning, which perspective here?• Nameplate vs usable?• Reporting to who and for what?
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Marketing WG Activities
• Determine how a robust REC market affect VG placement, energy marketing, and system reliability? Collaborate with OWG, & MIC.
• Initial thoughts?• Federal requirement vs state and reporting?• Explore how REC market will effect negative
energy pricing..• Identify how REC may affect or influence
markets and operations.
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Marketing WG Activities • How will regulation, load following, and balancing requirements (Ancillary
Services) change and how will they be supplied and delivered for variable generation integration? Collaborate with OWG, & MIC.
• Initial thoughts?
• DSS help with AS; stay coordinated JI efforts.
• Does the WG anticipate new AS? If so what?
• AS delivered to meet load not to VG.
• At what point can CR be called for VG?
• Will there be standards for response or voluntary?
• Will BA look for other ways to obtain negative capacity?
• AS provided by market rather than BA?
• More robust inc/dec market.
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Marketing WG Activities
• MIS comments to MWG.
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Break1000
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ISAS Liaison Update Report to the MIS Update
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Sullivan
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BPWG
• Create a SAR to require the R/C to approve/deny tags instead of just the sink BA.
• Assign BPWG with the task of creating a tag that can be faxed or emailed.
• Establish whether e-tag approval can be done by phone.
• NEW Term: WIAB WECC Interchange Authority Back-up Group.
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RTWG
• Support for SAR request for intra hour scheduling?
• Each provider will have to decide for themselves.• JIU will discuss with the FERC in May.• It was suggested that the group needed to use peer
pressure to pass• intra hour scheduling. • Where s the MIS going to go with this issue? Are
they going to put out a SAR for intra hour schedule?
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INT-BPS-007-0
• Modification Request of INT-BPS-007-0
• Intend to resubmit the SAR and capitalize the word Emergency.
• Relate to the NERC term for Emergency.
• Resubmit this BPS and resubmit SAR from a year ago.
• Support for SAR request for intra hour scheduling?
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JISWG Update
• Shared working group for NERC and NAESB.
• Version 1.8.1 of eTag is a clean up of picky items, definition changes with no apparent functionality changes to the user specifications.
• Changes to support a 25 hour day. CISDT will also require changes to etag.
• Modified cancellation definition.
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JISWG Update
• Industry registry: Current registry is the NERC TSIN.
• EIR will add adjacency data and PKI certification data. Easier to use and NAESB is
• NAESB new caretaker;to issue RFP for EIR. • Public key infrastructure (PKI) provides business
certainty and secure communications.• It is dependent on EIR implementation and the
NAESB certification committee. Consult with your vendor. Change from your url from "http" to "https" in the NERC TSIN registry.
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JISWG Update
• NAESB CI BP standards are the commercial NAESB interactions between PSE's and PSE's and PSE's and Reliability Entities.
• NERC Interchange standards will have stay in step with NAESB as the CISDT changes them.
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Dynamic Scheduling Systems • The DSS allows participants to take advantage of load and
resource diversity.• Ability to implement dynamic schedules between BA's.• Populated with data from confirmed Dynamic-type tags E
tags will be coded using the "misc." field to correctly distribute requests.
• Currently you can curtail dynamic schedules and nothing happens it takes operator intervention with this DSS will take curtailment actions.
• Quantities will be reflected in the WIT and integrate after the hour and adjust tag for the previous hour.
• RFP May 12, 2009; Contract award 6/30/09;Implementation Q1 2010
• BA to BA DSS only; will not currently support pseudo-tie.
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• Questions.
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Role of Committee and Subcommittees as Interface to the Market on Variable
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Recommendation to the MIC
Build on activities already started: VGS liaison. Relationships with outside groups. Membership involvement in outside
groups. Education of MIC and Subcommittee
members.
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Recommendation to the MIC
Advance these issues: Develop a process for Committee and
Subcommittee interaction with VGS. (Steering)
Monitor implementation of JIG BP and debate issues with WECC wide implementation. (MIS & SIS)
Identify major topics that need TC, TP discussion. (MIS & SIS)
Identify existing “rules” that may impede intra hour VG and load service transactions. (MIS & SIS)
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Recommendation to the MIC
When should MIC and Subcommittees begin advancing issues at WECC level?
Who will identify issues? How does MIC prioritize issues? Resources to accomplish tasks?
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MIS Member Outreach Goal
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Group Discussion
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The Goal
Outreach to reengage MIS members. What does it mean and how will we
accomplish it? Survey; Content, who gets it done?
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2010 MIS Meetings
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2010 Meeting Planning
Number of face to face meetings? Video conference meetings as
alternative? Should we work towards phone and web
broadcast for MIS meetings? Meeting content? Subcommittee coordination.
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2009 MIS Meeting Schedule2009 MIS Meeting Schedule
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2009 MIS Meetings
• Meeting dates.– August 25/26 Seattle– November 12/13 TBD?
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Open MIC Discussion Items
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Discussion Items
• FRR products.
• Others
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Adjourn
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