andy meyers isas chair isas report wecc operating committees march 2015 salt lake city, ut
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Andy MeyersISAS Chair
ISAS Report WECC Operating Committees
March 2015Salt Lake City, UT
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• Updateo The vacant vice chair position has now been filled.
Charles “Bud” Freeman from Seattle City Light has accepted the role of Vice Chair.
o Bud was accepted as the Vice Chair at the special OC webinar held back in December.
o Bud is scheduled to transition role of ISAS Chair in January of 2016
ISAS Leadership
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• WIT Contract Ownershipo 2014 IA agreement & WIT agreement were assigned to
Peak, following bifurcationo ISAS was approached by Peak in fall of 2014
requesting an opportunity to discuss ownership of the WIT contract Removal of IA from NERC standards in October 2014 created
opportunity for discussion regarding ownership
o ISAS held special webinar in November 2014 At time of discussion, contract was owned by Peak but WECC
continued to maintain administrative functions
WIT Contract
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• Options for Ownership1. Peak retains ownership of WIT but takes all administrative
functions WECC had been performing• Requires additional Peak FTE to take on administrative
fuction.
2. WECC takes ownership of contract and retains all administrative functions
3. Group of BA’s take ownership of WIT contract
WIT Contract cont’d
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• Recommendation ISAS recommended that WIT contract continue to
remain with Peak Peak will need to hire an FTE or assign an FTE to
take over administrative functions Transfer of all WIT activities to Peak is anticipated to
be complete by end of 2015 Peak RC is evaluating the idea of creating a WIT
user group to provide interconnection members with a way to discuss issues & address enhancements
WIT Contract cont’d
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• December 6th 2014oWIT experienced a technical issue
New etags & etag adjustments unable to be submitted by interconnection members
Approx 7:20 AM Peak RC submitted a message on WECC net implementing declaring an Interchange Authority emergency & implementing WIT Interchange Authority Backup (WIAB) criteria
BA’s were asked to operate to the most recent duplicate copy of its aggregate NSI as last confirmed by the IA.
Recent WIT Issues
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• December 6th Outageo Peak request to operate to most recent copy of
NSI remained in place until approximately 9:15o The cause of the issue had to do with a piece
of hardware at OATI’s headquarters Detailed report with an explanation of events is
available to OATI customers upon request
Recent WIT Issues cont’d
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• January Issueo A separate WIT issue occurred in the middle of
Januaryo It remains unclear if this was truly an outageo Peak RC’s felt it was significant enough that
they once again declared in Interchange Authority Emergency.
Recent WIT Issues cont’d
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• Follow up thoughtso Peak RC has commented that there was some
unfamiliarity of WIAB procedures by RT staff that were on that day Additional training & education on WIAB is needed
o Participation in annual WIAB test for 2015?
Recent WIT Issues cont’d
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• November of 2014 WECC hosted one day workshop to discuss Dynamic Transfers
• 2014 saw discussions regarding scheduling practices of Dynamics & Pseudo Ties
• Question had been raised if both these schedule types were being utilized correctly in the interconnection, were their any reliability concerns, was there a need to consider a regional criteria or guideline
Dynamic Transfer Work Shop
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• Recommendation from workshop back to JGCo Further education on Dynamic Transfers and
associated tagging requirements be explored by ISAS. WECC staff will assist ISAS in acquiring data and
developing educational materials.o We do not see the need for a Task Force to be formed
at this time. The OC should provide an update on Dynamic Transfers use in October 2015.
Dynamic Transfer Work Shop
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• Meeting DatesoMay 19th (1-5) & May 20th (8:30-11:30)o Location: WECC Office Salt Lake Cityo Agenda Committee is currently working on
drafting the agenda.
2015 WECC Scheduler’s Mtg
