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Report of the Chair. WECC PCC Meeting October 26-27, 2006 Salt Lake City, UT. Opening Remarks. Reception 5:30-7:00 in the Olympus Ballroom Please sign in Minority opinions – send to Brian & me within the next week for inclusion in the minutes and report to the Board.
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Report of the Chair WECC PCC Meeting October 26-27, 2006 Salt Lake City, UT
Opening Remarks • Reception 5:30-7:00 in the Olympus Ballroom • Please sign in • Minority opinions – send to Brian & me within the next week for inclusion in the minutes and report to the Board
WECC July Board of Directors • Approved PCC Items • WECC 2006 Power Supply Assessment • Clarification of the WECC Disturbance Monitoring Reimbursement Policy • WECC Generating Unit Model Validation Policy • WECC-CIEE/PIER MOU for Load Modeling Research
WECC July BOD Other Items • WECC 2007 Budget - Approved • Includes $773k of PCC Sponsored Projects • Total $21.7 million – a 34% increase • Board may approve multi-year contracts that result in financial obligations beyond the current budget year. • WREGIS contract with CEC - Approved • Business Cases for WSM and WIT – Approved • Reliability Center Strategic Initiative Strategic Principles - Approved
Standards Review Triage Committee Requests(Business Practices) • Distribution of operating reserves • Temporary standard for identification of reserve carrying responsibility in e-Tags. • Rewrite of the ISAS authored BPs into Version 0 Standards (8 items) • E-Tag Functionality for tracking 10 minute recallable reserves • WIT – E-Tag Validation, E-Tag Agent Inoperability, and Checkout Procedures
Motion • The PCC approves of the actions of the Triage Committee in finding that the 14 requests are within WECC’s standards making authority and their assignment to appropriate standing committees.
Tier 1 Mandatory Standards • Unique and Essential Standards that are immediately necessary to maintain reliability and are well defined. • Primary focus is on the RMS standards • Seeking emergency standards approval by WECC in early 2007 and NERC by June. • One year sunset – then follow-up with regular standards development process • Planning Standards are being addressed by RS (Tier 2)
WECC 2008-12 PCC Budget Request • Received a request last week from the FAC to prepare the 2008-2012 data submittals by today. • Made incremental changes to the 2007-2011 budget forecast made last spring.
Planning for 2007/8 • PCC Steering Committee is currently working on goals for 2007/8 to be presented at the March meeting • Please direct any recommendations to any of the subcommittee/work group chairs or me. • Nominating Committee for PCC Chair/Vice Chair