business practices subcommittee update executive committee meeting february 18, 2014

Business Practices Subcommittee Update

Executive Committee Meeting

February 18, 2014

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NAESB BPS Update

• Recent Meetings– November 13-14, 2013

– November 22, 2013 – Tag Impacts Task Force

– December 2, 2013 – Tag Impacts Task Force

– December 4-5, 2013

– January 7, 2014

– February 5-6, 2014

• Upcoming Meetings– March 18-19, 2014 – St. Petersburg/Duke

– April 23-24, 2014 – Little Rock/SPP


Draft Standards - Status

• Working on a Draft PFV Recommendation

• Informal Comments Periods

– First Round February 18- March 18, 2013

– Second Round January 8-31, 2014


Changes From First Round of Informal Comments

• Removed Coordination Arrangements/Two-Tier Firm

Curtailment

• Recognize Seams Agreements

– GTL priority overrides

– Different methodologies of granularity

• Updated Whitepaper


Second Round of Informal Comments• Posted January 8th – January 31st

• Eleven Entities submitted comments

– AECI

– Duke

– GTC

– Manitoba Hydro

– MISO

– NCEMC


Second Round of Informal Comments• Entities submitted comments (Contd.)

– NYISO

– PJM

– Southern

– SPP

– TVA


Informal Comments Issues

• Real Time Data Requirements

• 12 – 18 Months Parallel Test

– NAESB/IDC Association Coordination.

– Testing Details Criteria/Procedures

– Threshold for curtailment 5% vs 3%.

• Recognition of Market Coordinated Flowgates

• Criteria for determination of Generator Priority

Schedules


Data Submission Requirements

• The data includes, but not limited to the following:

– Real time generator output

– Each BA or defined control zone Loads

– Generator outages

– Transmission outages

– Facility flows


Upcoming Activities

• Review and address second round of

informal comments

– Estimate 4-6 months

• Develop a list of concerns to be evaluated

during full staffing/field trial


Additional Documents

• Whitepaper

– Big picture view

• Meeting Materials

• IDC User’s Manual – Outside of BPS Scope

– How calculations are performed

• System Data eXchange (SDX) User’s Manual

– Outside of BPS Scope

– New entities submitting data

– Acknowledgements/error processing


Testing

• Evaluation Criteria

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

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

• Timeline to Testing


Timeline

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4Informal Comments

BPS ApprovalEC Approval

Parallel Flow Visualiation 2014 2015 2016 2017

IDC Development/Testing18 Month Field test


Implementation

• 12-18 Month Test – Projected 2nd-3rd quarter 2016

• Decision to Move to Production– NAESB– NERC/Operating Reliability Subcommittee (ORS)– IDC Association


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

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


Coordination – IDC Association • Commitment to Testing

• Responsibility to Improve Accuracy of the

IDC Tool

• Access to Data During Testing

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

informal/formal comments– Review and input into Recommendation and

Whitepaper


Next Steps• Subcommittee

– Reviewing responses for second round of Informal Comment

– Update Recommendation based on Subcommittee Decision – Informal Comments

– Develop a list of concerns to be evaluated during full staffing/field trial

– Work with IDCWG • Review and provide input on informal comments,

Whitepaper, and Recommendation• Update User Manuals

– Update Whitepaper – Informal Comments• WEQ Leadership/NAESB Staff – Coordination

Issues– NERC - Ongoing– IDC Association – Ongoing


Next Steps (Contd.)• Post Recommendation for Formal Comments

– 2nd or 3rd Quarter 2014• BPS plan to include a Full Staffing

Considerations List as a part of the recommendation for formal comments.– Granularity of the GTL flow calculations Sink Side– Continuity of Seams Agreements– Possible Reliability Issues during Reload– Load Zone Granularity of the PFV Model– Allow Firm Resources to Increase Impacts on flowgates– Details of how to calculate Firm & Non-Firm GTL flows– Review that Credit for Redispatch logic works as

intended

• WILL THIS LIST BE SUFFICIENT FOR EC TO APPROVE STANDARDS?


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