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Standards Update

Merrill Brimhall Staff Engineer

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WECC Standards Activities

• Recent Ballot Results:– WECC-0105 VAR-002-WECC-2 (AVR)

• Quorum 83.1% - Approval 100%

– WECC-0105 VAR-501-WECC-2 (PSS)• Quorum 83.5% - Approval 100%

– WECC-0106 INT-018-WECC-CRT-1 (E-Tag Codes)• Quorum 82.4% - Approval 97.2%

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WECC Standards Activities

• All three unanimously approved at the September Board meeting

• The Two WECC Regional VAR Standards were posted for 45-day NERC public comment - 8/7/14 – 9/22/14

• No negative comments received • Next step is to work with NERC to file the

revisions with FERC for approval

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WECC Standards Activities• WECC-0101 – Generator Validation Policy Conversion

– Proposal to lower the applicable facility thresholds in the Western Interconnection for generator testing and validation identified in the recently approved NERC MOD standards.

– Proposal to modify the periodicity of validation.

– Would become a Regional Variance to the NERC Standards

– Closer to current WECC Policy

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WECC Standards Activities

• WECC-0107 – PSS Design and Performance– RPIC assignment to review document appropriate

categorization

– Control Work Group identified several PSS documents to consider for inclusion in standards

– Drafting Team proposing changes to VAR-501-WECC-2 that would maintain the requirement to have PSS in service and add tuning and installation requirements

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WECC Standards Activities

• Two new Regional Criteria projects

– WECC-0108 – Modification of INT-021-WECC-CRT-1.3, WIT Check Out Confirmation

– WECC-0110 – Modification of INT-011-WECC-CRT-2, Ten Minute Recallable e-Tag Functionality for Reserves

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NERC Standards Activities

• Project 2014-03 Revisions to TOP/IRO Standards– Most recent ballot closed on September 19

• All six IRO standards passed• Two of Three TOP standards passed• TOP-001-3 only received 48.73% Weighted Segment

Approval• Two new definitions were approved

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NERC Standards Activities

• BAL-002-2 – Addresses the 2009 NWPP Request for

Interpretation– Ballot window closed 10/2/2014

• PRC-006-2 UFLS– Minor revisions to address FERC Order– Balloted 9/29 – 10/8

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NERC Standards Activities

• Upcoming Ballots in October– TPL-007-1 GMD 10/1-10– Revised Definition of RAS 10/3-14– VAR-002 Dispersed Generation Revisions 10/7-16– CIP Version 5 revisions 10/8-17– EOP-011-1 Emergency Operations 10/10-20– PRC-002-2 Disturbance Monitoring 10/10-21– PRC-004 Dispersed Generation Revisions 10/10-22

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WECC and NERC Standards Activities

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