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Business Practices Subcommittee Update

Business Practices Subcommittee Update. April 30, 2013. WEQ BPS Update - Meetings. Meetings Since Last Update March 20- 21, 2013(Little Rock, AR) April 23-25, 2013 (Carmel, IN) Scheduled Meetings May 22-23, 2013 (Valley Forge, PA) June 19-20, 2013 (Minneapolis, MN)

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Business Practices Subcommittee Update

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  1. Business Practices Subcommittee Update April 30, 2013

  2. WEQ BPS Update - Meetings • Meetings Since Last Update • March 20- 21, 2013(Little Rock, AR) • April 23-25, 2013 (Carmel, IN) • Scheduled Meetings • May 22-23, 2013 (Valley Forge, PA) • June 19-20, 2013 (Minneapolis, MN) • July 17-18, 2013 (Location TBD) • August 14-15, 2013 (Location TBD) • Additional sub-team Meetings to be Scheduled • Recommendation Sub-team • Recognize Existing Seams Agreements Sub-Team Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  3. Informal Comments (02/18/13 – 03/18/13) • Basin Electric Power Cooperative • Duke Energy • Entergy • FRCC Reliability Coordinator • ISO New England • Kansas City Power and Light • MISO • New York ISO • North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation • Southern Company • Southwest Power Pool • TVA • Westar Energy • WE Energies Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  4. Categories of Comments • Draft Standards • Additional Documents • Testing • Implementation/Cost/Funding • Coordination with NERC and the IDC Association Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  5. Draft Standards • Recognize Seams Agreements/Granularity - New • Coordination Arrangements/Two-Tier Firm Curtailment - Removed • Pseudo-Ties - Hold • Generator Priority Schedules - Ongoing • Definitions - Ongoing Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  6. Additional Documents • Whitepaper • Big Picture View • Calculations for Relief Obligations • IDC User’s Manual • How Calculations are Performed • Treatment of Phase Angle Regulators (PARs) • System Data eXchange (SDX) User’s Manual • New Entities Submitting Data • Acknowledgements/Error Processing Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  7. Testing • Evaluation Criteria • Data (Input/Output) • Access to Data • Quality of Data • Sufficient Data • Testing Plan (12 to 18 Month Test) • Dependencies to Begin Testing • Commitment to Testing • NAESB • NERC • Association • Industry Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  8. Implementation/Cost/Funding • Cost/Benefit Analysis • Funding • IDC and SDX modifications • Testing Phase • Decision to move to production • NAESB • NERC/Operating Reliability Subcommittee (ORS) • Association Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  9. Coordination – NERC • Commitment to Testing • Responsibility to Improve Accuracy of the IDC Tool • ORS Role Moving Forward • Standard Drafting Teams • Coordinate Interchange • Tagging Intra-BA Point-to-Point • Treatment of Pseudo Ties • Tag Secondary Network Service/Generator Priority Schedules • Liaison • IRO 5-Year Review Team • Curtailment of Intra-BA Point-to-Point Tags • Project 2010-14.1 (BAL Standards) Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  10. Coordination – IDC Association • Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) • Commitment to Testing • Responsibility to Improve Accuracy of the IDC Tool • Funding of Testing/Implementing Standards • Access to Data During Testing • What Documentation is Needed to Move Forward • IDC Working Group • Updates to User’s Manuals • Changes to Draft Recommendation Standards • Review and input into Whitepaper Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  11. Next Steps • Subcommittee • Continue Working Through Informal Comments - Ongoing • Sub-teams • Proposal to Recognize Existing Seams Agreements - July • Update Recommendation Based on Subcommittee Decision – Ongoing • Update User’s Manuals in Coordination with IDC Working Group – Ongoing • Update Whitepaper – Not Started • WEQ Leadership/NAESB Staff – Coordination Issues • NERC - Ongoing • IDC Association – Begin in May • Post Recommendation Formal Comments • 4th Quarter Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

  12. Questions/Feedback ? Free Template from www.brainybetty.com

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