Unscheduled Flow Administrative Subcommittee Report

for ISAS

Robin Chung

August 20, 2014

Salt Lake City, UT

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UFMP Assessments

• Comments solicited on last assessment calculation proposal• Comments addressed and are currently posted

• White paper under development• Brief history• Variety of methods discussed, along with pros

and cons• Will work to develop new methodology • If interested, please join us!

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• UFAS recommending 1995 caps be lifted

• Interim proposal to collect full amount billed by Device Operators

• Buy time to find a permanent solution to UFMP Assessments

• WECC member outreach via WECC MAC

Lifting 1995 Caps

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Guideline Implementation Plan

• Approved by FERC on May 16, 2014• Implementation upon completion of applicable

webSAS changes• Must report back to FERC one year from

implementation

• Peak Reliability now holds webSAS contract

• Optimistically, implementation at end of 2014

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Other Meeting Activities

• Continued involvement with the Enhanced Curtailment Calculator Advisory Task Force

• Lessons learned from NV Energy/Sierra Pacific BA consolidation• Need evaluation of current zones• Need guidelines and processes for putting

new points into zones

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• There are currently no Devices pending for disqualification

• UFAS recommends Path 22 remains qualified at this time• No system changes to merit disqualification• Path did hit 97% loading during time period• UFAS will reevaluate in one year

Path and Device Qualification Status

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• Plan Year 20 (CY2014) activity as of July 28, 2014 has 1,652 hours of Coordinated Operations of Phase Shifters (COPS) with 730 hours of contributing schedule curtailments

• Total of 102,253 MWhs of Unscheduled Flow relief was provided by curtailments

• 63 hours of competing path usage to date, Primarily Path 30, Path 36 and Path 66

Operating Statistics

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• September 30 and October 1, 2014 in Salt Lake City. 1st day TF, 2nd day UFAS

Next Meetings

Thank you!

Questions?