Download - Business Practices Subcommittee Update
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
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2017
Parallel Flow Visualization Development (Full Staffing)2014 2015
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q2 Q3 Q4
2016Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4Q4 Q1
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IDC Development/Testing
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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