Business Practices Subcommittee Update

Executive Committee Meeting

October 22, 2013

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WEQ BPS Update - Meetings

• Meetings Since Last Update

– September 25, 2013, Conference Call

– October 8, 2013 (Las Vegas, NV)

– October 9, 2013 (Meeting with IDCWG)• Scheduled Meetings

– November 13 - 14, 2013, Houston

– December 4 - 5, 2013 Houston

• Additional Assignments made to work on– Recommendation – Recognize Existing Seams Agreements– Treatment of Pseudo Ties

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Draft Standards - Status

• Recognize Seams Agreements – Concepts agreed upon

• Granularity - Outstanding

• Coordination Arrangements/Two-Tier Firm Curtailment

- Removed

• Pseudo-Ties – Proposed standards being developed

• Generator Priority Schedules – Nearly complete

• Definitions – Nearly complete

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Additional Documents

• Whitepaper – nearly complete

– Big Picture View

– Calculations for Relief Obligations

– Updated to include details and examples

• IDC User’s Manual – Outside of BPS Scope

– How Calculations are Performed

– Treatment of Phase Angle Regulators (PARs)

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Additional Documents

• System Data eXchange (SDX) User’s Manual

– Outside of BPS Scope

– New Entities Submitting Data

– Acknowledgements/Error Processing

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Testing• Evaluation Criteria

• Data (Input/Output)– Access to Data– Quality of Data– Sufficient Data

• Commitment to Testing– NAESB– NERC– Association– Industry

• Timeline to testing

Road Map To Development

Data Submission

WEQ 008 Assessment

CO 283 Report

GTL CO’s Draft

CO’s Development

Key Assumptions:-WEQ 008 is approved by December 2013-Agreement for funding of the Change Order required is in place by June 2014-IDCWG SC support of the CO’s development by March 2014

Road Map To Trial Period12-18 Month Test

TestingTesting Result

Report

Implement CO’s Start of Trial Period

Key Assumptions:-WEQ 008 is approved by December 2013-Agreement for funding of the Change Order required is in place by June 2014-IDCWG SC support of the CO’s development by March 2014

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BPS Approval

EC Approval

BPS Approval

EC Approval

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12 Month Field Test

IDC Development/Testing

18 Month Field Test

Timeline Scenarios

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Implementation

• 12-18 month test – Best case 3rd quarter 2015

– Delayed until 2nd quarter 2016

• Funding – IDC and SDX modifications– Testing Phase

• Decision to move to production– NAESB– NERC/Operating Reliability Subcommittee (ORS)

• Committed to review and approve test plan

– IDC Association• Fund and implement IDC changes to conduct field test

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Coordination – NERC • Commitment to Testing• Responsibility to Improve Accuracy of the

IDC Tool • ORS Role Moving Forward (Monitor Reliability

Impact) – Approve test criteria• Standard Drafting Teams

– Coordinate Interchange• Tagging Intra-BA Point-to-Point (INT-011)• Treatment of Pseudo Ties• Tag Secondary Network Service/Generator Priority

Schedules

– IRO 5-Year Review Team• Curtailment of Intra-BA Point-to-Point Tags

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Coordination – IDC Association • Commitment to Testing

• Responsibility to Improve Accuracy of the

IDC Tool

• Funding of Testing/Implementing Standards

• Access to Data During Testing

• IDC Working Group– Updates to User’s Manuals– Response to comments related during informal

comments– Review and input into Whitepaper

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Next Steps• Subcommittee

– May post for another round of Informal Comment

• Open Issues (proposals being documented/reviewed)– Recognize Existing Seams Agreements – Treatment of Pseudo-ties– Update Recommendation Based on Subcommittee

Decision – Ongoing – Update User’s Manuals in Coordination with IDC

Working Group – Ongoing– Update Whitepaper – Draft Developed

• WEQ Leadership/NAESB Staff – Coordination Issues– NERC - Ongoing– IDC Association – Ongoing

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Next Steps• Post Recommendation for Formal Comments

– 1st Quarter 2014

• If not posted for informal comments

– 2nd Quarter – May even be 3rd Quarter 2014• If posted for informal comments

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Questions/Feedback

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