2016 WECC Schedulers Meeting

 Wholesale Power for 44 Member Rural Electric Cooperatives ◦ 1.5M Members  ~2800MW Peaking load ◦ Across Five States  Wind, Hydro, Solar, Gas and Coal Portfolio ◦ Owned, Joint Owned and PPAs ◦ Over 4300 MW  7 Network Transmission Providers ◦ 3 non-jurisdictional/4 jurisdictional ◦ Excludes Full Requirements Load in SPP

 FERC Order 890 ◦ Formalizes Designation and Undesignation Process ◦ Pro forma tariff  Section 30 Network Resources  Section 31 Network Load  Transmission Providers (TP) ◦ Develop Business Practices and Manual Processes  FERC Order 676H ◦ NAESB WEQ Version 3 Standards Mandatory  NITS on OASIS Software Platform

Remedy Undue Discrimination - pro Forma Tariff  Qualifications as a Designated Network Resource (DNR)  Rules for Termination ◦ Third Party sales ◦ Off System vs On System ◦ Reserves ◦ Hazard/Backup Power  Direction to NAESB ◦ Develop Standards for NITS transactions on OASIS  Intent - Visibility ◦ Prevent Overdesignation of DNRs ◦ Prevent Oversubscription of Transmission Service

 Reflect Policy Determinations in FERC Order 890 series  NAESB Wholesale Electric Quadrant (WEQ) ◦ Version 3 Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols  Mandatory Enforceable Requirements

 WEQ-001 ◦ Process Description ◦ Disaggregation and Aggregation of Loads ◦ Timing Requirements  WEQ-002 ◦ Template data  WEQ-003 ◦ Definitions of Data Elements  WEQ-013 ◦ Definitions around Statuses and Workflow

 September 2014 ◦ WEQ Standards revised-Order 676H ◦ 18 month implementation –April 2016  July 2015 – Notice of Plan from TPs  September 2015 – OATI Conference  November 2015 – TPs First Glimpse  January 2016 ◦ TPs Business Practice updates ◦ TPs require template data  February 2016 – TP Training at OATI  Late February 2016 – TPs File for Extension  March 17, 2016 – Extension Granted

 June 24, 2016 ◦ Compliance Filing date ◦ Posting and Documenting of NITS Arrangements  July 25, 2016 ◦ Full compliance Implementation

 Updates to webTrans  Updates to E tag  SmartOASIS – Transactions>NITS ◦ Request Summary or Application Summary

 Application ◦ Starting Source for all Components ◦ Attestation ◦ Customer ◦ Agent - Optional

 Select TP and Application Ref  Select from drop down or click asterisk  Load ◦ Load Area ◦ POR ◦ Sink, Load voltage and substation optional ◦ Forecast Method  Ancillary Services ◦ By POD ◦ By Service Type

 Select TP and Application Ref  Generators ◦ Unit characteristic data ◦ Eligible MW  Resources ◦ PPAs & Owned Generation ◦ Ability to Group Gen ◦ Forecasted MW  Designated Network Resource ◦ Resource/POR combo ◦ Designated MW ◦ Attestation

 Terminating DNRs ◦ Temporary and Indefinite ◦ Select TP, Application Ref and DNR ◦ MW Entries are Negative  Modifications/Additions ◦ Load, Generators, Ancillaries, Resources, DNRs  Procuring 6-NN (Secondary Network transmission)

 Load Forecast Data – Seasonal  Generation Dispatch – Economics  Resource Forecast – Seasonal  Auxiliary Transmission – Coordinated Request  Scheduling Rights – Access from DNR *Optionality is determined by TP

 Avoid Special Characters and Spaces  Time Out Issues in Google Chrome  Status of: ◦ Queued with Preconfirmed not Checked OR ◦ PreSubmittal  Edit Icon available in Upper Right ◦ Status of Deficient or PreSubmittal  Right Click in Grey Area – Check Box for Optional displays

 Termination display - Lacking 24 hour profile button  Network Secondary – Lacking 24 hour profile button  No link between ATC and Network Secondary  Unable to Change POR on DNR  Time Zone issues in multiple displays  POR duplication of DNR entries  WebTrans – Scheduling Rights

 OATI -Webinars for Network Customers  OATI - Recorded Versions Available at: ◦ SmartOASIS>Help (?)> Transactions>NITS CAUTION: Tells you how the software works but NOT what your TP expectations are

 Requirements and Guidance on NITS Entry  Optional Functionality – Inclusion/Exclusion ◦ 10 Year L&R ◦ Scheduling Rights  E tag ◦ NITS Resource Field and NITS MISC Field

 Template Submission to TPs ◦ Upon Request ◦ Upon Revision  Production Entry ◦ Who  Network Customer or TP ◦ How  Manual Entry  CSV file load issue ◦ When  Prior to June 24, 2016

 Original Templates sent to all 7 TP prior to January deadline  Production entry of base data with 2 TPs ◦ 1 Pursuing scheduling right option  Remaining 5 TPs ◦ Completing Template Review and Revision by end of May/early June ◦ Requesting Entry Instructions – when/where  Planning on line Temporary Terminations per deadline and/or TP directions

 10 Year Load & Resource Submittals  Scheduling Rights  Usability/Feasibility of Termination  Usability/Feasibility of Network Secondary  E tag fields  Alarms/Checks by TPs – Tag vs NITS

Carman Ruder Power Scheduler II Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc Lisa Tiffin Backcasting and Topology Manager Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc