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ERO Filing and WECC Delegation Agreement. Steve Rueckert Director – Standards and Compliance Joint Guidance Committee Meeting — January 23-24, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah. WECC Delegation Agreement. Consists of Pro Forma agreement and 5 Exhibits Regional Footprint Bylaws
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ERO Filing and WECC Delegation Agreement Steve Rueckert Director – Standards and Compliance Joint Guidance Committee Meeting — January 23-24, 2007 Salt Lake City, Utah
WECC Delegation Agreement • Consists of Pro Forma agreement and 5 Exhibits • Regional Footprint • Bylaws • Standards Development Process • Compliance Monitoring Enforcement Program • Budget
Timeline • Sent to NERC on November 21, 2006 • NERC Sent all eight regional Delegation Agreements to FERC in a filing on November 29, 2006 • Identified concerns with Exhibits C (Standards Development) and D (Compliance) • WECC filed to intervene and submitted comments to FERC on December 27
NERC Concerns – Exhibit C • WECC Committee voting structure for standards development • FERC criterion that no two stakeholder sectors should be able to control and no single sector should be able to defeat • WECC response indicates that the voting structure is a part of the WECC bylaws • Meetings open to members and public • Clarification of class structure • Consensus of WECC membership
Additional NERC Concerns • Standards Request form not included in process document • Standards Template not included in process document • NERC notification not required • Process does not explicitly state that each WECC Reliability Standard will enable support of NERC reliability principles
NERC Concerns – Exhibit D • WECC did not agree to use NERC Pro Forma CMEP document and identify differences • WECC submitted their own CMEP document • NERC indicates there are non material differences • Raised no specific concerns
Other Comments • Several WECC members submitted comments on the Delegation Agreement filing • Generally supported • California IOUs identified concern over billing issues • Seeking more details on how CALISO will bill reliability costs • WIRAB identified confidentiality • CALISO concerned over governance • CALISO identified cost allocation concerns