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Joint Guidance Meeting April 28, 2009

Variable Generation Integration Subcommittee (VGS). Joint Guidance Meeting April 28, 2009. VGS Key Functions. Coordinate assignments across WECC Assembly of information Analysis of issues Integrate pertinent information and analysis WECC staff, Committees Membership

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Joint Guidance Meeting April 28, 2009

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  1. Variable Generation Integration Subcommittee (VGS) Joint Guidance Meeting April 28, 2009

  2. VGS Key Functions • Coordinate assignments across WECC • Assembly of information • Analysis of issues • Integrate pertinent information and analysis • WECC staff, Committees • Membership • Create informational documents • Communicate the state of renewable integration • Identify and prioritize the reliability and market impacts of identified issues • Provide recommendations to JGC • Activities, Standards, Practices

  3. VGS Organization • 46 Members • Representation

  4. VGS Organization • Workgroups (WG) • Operating, Planning, Market, Technology • WG participation is open • Issues organized into WG(s) • WG will prioritize issues & gather information • VGS will bring issues back together and create workplan

  5. Accomplishments • VG Issue Survey in December • Kickoff call January 15 • Discussed issues brought to the table • VGS organization & expectations • NERC IVGTF comment submittal • Comments well received by NERC • DOE funding submittal • First in-person Meeting April 22 • Reviewed workplan

  6. Current Activities • Workgroups are finalizing the drafting of a 24 month workplan • VGS is organizing past data/studies • VGS assuring that there is awareness and representation on pertinent NERC and NAESB activities • DOE funding • Announcement due April 30

  7. Operating Workgroup Update • Chairs - Bart McManus (BPA)and Grant Rosenblum (CAISO) • Draft Workplan Activities • Quantifying Reserve Requirements • Evaluation of VG to provide Ancillary Services • Evaluation of BA cooperation • Common methodologies • Capacity factor calculations • Information granularity requirements

  8. Planning Workgroup Update • Chair – (open) • Draft Workplan Activities • Perform transmission adequacy analyses for accommodating the integration of variable generation • Review historical data to correlate variable generation levels with peak and light load and transmission line loadings to validate planning assumptions

  9. Marketing Workgroup Update • Chair – Paul Arnold (ColumbiaGrid) • Draft Workplan Activities • Market mechanisms for Ancillary Services • How VG resources on networked transmission should be assigned capacity? • Portion of VG resources counted (tagged) as firm? • Affect of liquid REC market on VG development, marketing, reliability?

  10. Technology Workgroup Update • Chair – Len Dorr (First Solar) • Draft Workplan Activities • Aggregate information on future cost expectation for various technologies of interest • Identify complementary resources and timing as it relates to integrating VG • storage technologies • PHEV • DSM

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