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WECC Standards and Regional Criteria Update

WECC Standards and Regional Criteria Update. WECC Joint Guidance Committee Meeting May 31 – June 1, 2012 WECC Offices Salt Lake City, Utah Steve Rueckert Director of Standards. Status of WECC Standards Activity Recent Ballot Results. BAL-002-WECC-1 – Contingency Reserves 90.8 % Quorum

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WECC Standards and Regional Criteria Update

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  1. WECC Standards and Regional Criteria Update WECC Joint Guidance Committee Meeting May 31 – June 1, 2012 WECC Offices Salt Lake City, Utah Steve Rueckert Director of Standards

  2. Status of WECC Standards Activity Recent Ballot Results • BAL-002-WECC-1 – Contingency Reserves • 90.8 % Quorum • 80.6% Weighted Sector Approval • BAL-004-WECC-2 – Automatic Time Error Correction and WECC Variance to NERC BAL-001-0.1a • 91.7% Quorum • 93.1% Weighted Sector Approval

  3. Status of WECC Standards Activity Recent Ballot Results • INT-016-WECC-CRT-2 Data Submittal Criterion • 93.2% Quorum • 75.7 % Weighted Sector Approval • WECC Standards Committee has forwarded all three to the Board with a recommendation for approval

  4. Status of WECC Standards Activity Upcoming Ballots – Regional Criteria • PRC-006-WECC-CRT-1 – Underfrequency Load Shedding Criterion • Meets a fill-in-the-blank requirement for WECC • Covers implementation of the WECC Coordinated Off-Nominal Plan • DT has addressed all comments and recommends moving to ballot • WSC will consider request to ballot at its June meeting

  5. Status of WECC Standards Activity Posted for Comment – Regional Criteria • MOD-011 and 013-WECC-CRT-1 Steady State and Dynamic Data Requirements Criterion • Addresses two fill-in-the-blank requirements • Posted for comment May 8, 2012 to June 7, 2012

  6. Status of WECC Standards Activity Posted for Comment – Regional Criteria • INT-003-WECC-CRT-2 Interchange Prescheduling Calendar • To facilitate submittal of Interchange Schedules prior to the day of implementation • Fifth Posting for comment • Posted for Comment May 15, 2012 to June 14, 2012

  7. Status of WECC Standards Activity Posted for Comment – Regional Criteria • INT-004-WECC-CRT-2 Reliability Curtailments and Reload Criterion • To define treatment and approval of reliability curtailment requests, reloads, and e-Tag adjustments under specified circumstances within the Western Interconnection • Posted for Comment May 22, 2012 to June 21, 2012

  8. Status of WECC Standards Activity Posted for Comment – Regional Criteria • INT-009-WECC-CRT-2 Capacity e-Tag Functionality • To define the functionality of a capacity type e-Tag transaction by creating a uniform set of capacity type e-Tag criteria for use with on-demand Spinning and Non-Spinning resources • Posted for Comment May 29, 2012 to June 28, 2012

  9. Status of WECC Standards Activity Posted for Comment – Regional Criteria • INT-011-WECC-CRT-2 Ten Minute Recallable Reserve e-Tag Functionality • To define the use of ten-minute recallable e-Tag as a reserve product • Posted for Comment June 5, 2012 to July 5, 2012

  10. WECC Standards Committee Voting Segments and WSC Representation • Transmission – Dana Cabbell, SCE • Generation – Angela Small, NAES • Marketers and Brokers – Gregory Maxfield, PAC • Distribution – Glen Hoisington, FEUS • System Coordination – Joseph Tarantino, SMUD • End Use – Rick Noger, Praxair • State and Provincial – Jerry Murray, Oregon PUC • Other Non-Registered – Crystal Musselman, Proven Compliance Solutions, Inc

  11. Status of WECC Standards Activity WECC Standards Committee • WSC has met three times • Initial meeting was informal. No business conducted • Approved moving two regional reliability standards and one criterion to ballot • Approved posting five regional criteria for comment • Approved proposed errata changes to IRO-006-WECC-1 to align the standard with the recently approved UFS Guideline

  12. Status of WECC Standards Activity WECC Standards Committee • Next meeting scheduled for June 25, 2012 • Review WSC Charter and WECC Reliability Standards Development Procedure • Review WECC-0065 Submittal for posting and potential ballot. • Due Process concern regarding WECC-0074 • Discuss errata to INT-017-WECC-CRT-1.

  13. Status of WECC Standards Activity IRO-006-WECC-1.1 Errata Changes • Conforming changes to IRO-006-WECC-1, Qualified Transfer Path Unscheduled Flow Relief, are required as a result of changes made to the WECC Unscheduled Flow Reduction Guideline • FERC Orders 888 and 890, as well as Orders 713-A and 713-B and RM10-9-000, discuss the relationship between curtailment actions placed upon transmission schedules and transmission service priority

  14. Status of WECC Standards Activity IRO-006-WECC-1.1 Errata Changes • The Violation Severity Level (VSL) for R1 has been updated to conform with the NERC VSL Guidelines • “binary” type requirements must be consistently assigned the same VSL, and using a “Severe” VSL is an acceptable approach

  15. Status of WECC Standards Activity IRO-006-WECC-1.1 Errata Changes • Upon receiving a request of Step 4 or greater (see Attachment 1-IRO-006-WECC-1) from the Transmission Operator of a Qualified Transfer Path, theR1. Each Reliability Coordinator shall approve (actively or passively) or deny that request a request for curtailment (Step 4 of the WECC Unscheduled Flow Reduction Guideline) from the Transmission Operator of a Qualified Transfer Path, within five minutes. of receiving that request

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