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Regional Dialogue Contract Overview and Scheduling Impacts. WECC Schedulers Meeting May 10 th & 11 th 2010. Introduction. Existing Subscription Contracts expire September 2011 Regional Dialogue contracts replace Subscription Power Contracts thru 2028 Limited Federal Resources
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Regional Dialogue Contract Overview and Scheduling Impacts WECC Schedulers Meeting May 10th & 11th 2010
Introduction • Existing Subscription Contracts expire September 2011 • Regional Dialogue contracts replace Subscription Power Contracts thru 2028 • Limited Federal Resources • Not enough generation to serve all customers loads • Customers or BPA will need to acquire additional resources to meet load growth • State requirements for Renewable resources
Contracts • Load Following, Slice and Block contracts • High Water Mark determines what portion of federal generation the customer is eligible to purchase at Tier 1 rate • Tiered rate resources from BPA • Tier 1- Federal Power at BPA cost based rate • Tier 2- Power purchased by BPA from market to serve above HWM load
Resources Non-Federal Resources • Customers acquire their own resources to serve additional load above HWM • Resource Support Services (RSS) is a group of products BPA is offering customers to support Non-Federal resource purchases
RSS products • Customers can choose one or many • Diurnal Flattening Service (DFS) • Flattens variable customer resources output into flat blocks using BPA generation • May require hourly schedule changes to both federal and non-federal resources serving load • Forces Outage Reserve Service (FORS) • BPA backs up non-federal resources during generation outages • BPA responsible for managing more curtailments
RSS products • Transmission Curtailment Management Service (TCMS) • BPA serves load in event of transmission curtailment between resource and load (future hours) • Also will create more curtailments for BPA to manage • Resource Remarking Service (RRS) • BPA remarkets non-federal resources in excess of customer requirements. • Require some generation scheduled to the load and the remainder scheduled elsewhere. • 2 other RSS products • Secondary Credit Service (SCS) • Generation Management Service (GMS)
Affects on Scheduling • BPA is enhancing and developing its scheduling systems to manage RD contracts • Leveraging opportunity to implement enhancements to improve automation of resources to load allocation, transmission purchases, and e-Tagging • Developing web based electronic interface (Customer Portal)
Customer Portal • Customers will log in to website and submit schedule data directly to BPA • Customer Portal will be used in both Preschedule and Real Time • AE’s will be working with Scheduling to reach out to customers • BPA will be conducting training and coordinating testing spring/summer of 2011