Compliance Open Webinar Taud Olsen, Managing Director, Organizational Development and Outreach December 21, 2017 Western Electricity Coordinating Council
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Western Electricity Coordinating Council Agenda WECC Standards Committee items that were approved at the recent Board meeting, Steve Rueckert, WECC Director of Standards. Questions Western Electricity Coordinating Council
WECC Standards Update Board Approved Documents Steve Rueckert – WECC Director of Standards Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Western Electricity Coordinating Council BAL-004-WECC-3 Automatic Time Error Correction Maintain Interconnection Frequency Payback Primary Inadvertent Interchange effectively and in a manner that does not adversely affect reliability Specify that the WECC Interchange Tool (WIT) is the tool for calculating Primary Inadvertent Interchange Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Western Electricity Coordinating Council BAL-004-WECC-3 Ballot for approval received 97.6 percent weighted approval Two negative votes NERC Standards should suffice Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Western Electricity Coordinating Council FAC-501-WECC-2 Transmission Maintenance Minimal updates to Transmission Maintenance Inspection Plan (TMIP) content Added clarity that the TMIP must be implemented Added a referenced table to the document rather than a link Links have broken in the past Ballot for approval received 100 percent weighted approval Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Western Electricity Coordinating Council INT-007-WECC-CRT-3 Defines the Processing of Emergency Request for Interchange (RFI) Removed the Purchasing-Selling Entity from the Applicability section Addition of generic language filling the PSE void Ballot for approval received 100 percent weighted approval Effective April 1, 2018 Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Western Electricity Coordinating Council INT-016-WECC-CRT-3 Ensures that an e-Tag is created for all Request for Interchange (RFI) less than 60 minutes in duration Removed the Purchasing-Selling Entity from the Applicability section Ballot for approval received 100 percent weighted approval Effective April 1, 2018 Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Western Electricity Coordinating Council PRC-001-WECC-CRT-2 Governor Droop Setting Facilitates primary frequency support in the Western Interconnection Specifies a range for governor droop settings Added language to incorporate new technologies Adds clarity that there is no requirement to install equipment Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Western Electricity Coordinating Council PRC-001-WECC-CRT-2 Ballot for approval received an 89.6 percent weighted approval Seven negative votes from two entities Five asked the drafting team to consider additional conditions for exempting generators Two suggested there should be a MW limit on the applicability of the Criterion Became Effective December 6, 2017 Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Retirement of PRC-004-WECC-2 Drafting team concluded that the reliability-related substance of PRC-004-WECC-2 is addressed in existing NERC Continent-wide Standards Ballot for retirement received a 98.2 percent weighted approval Two negative votes NERC Standards should suffice Ballot was to retire the WECC Regional Standard Comment indicates support for retirement Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Retirement of VAR-002-WECC-2 The reliability-related substance of VAR-002-WECC-2 is addressed in existing NERC Continent-wide Standards and the WECC Regional Variances in VAR-001-4.1 Ballot for retirement received a 100 percent weighted approval Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Western Electricity Coordinating Council Future Events Compliance Open Webinar on Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. MT Low Impact Control Centers, Joe Baugh Compliance Workshop March 27-29, 2018 on Bose, Idaho Separate O&P, CIP Days (separate registration fee) WICF Day in the middle (no registration fee to attend) San Diego, October 23-25 Western Electricity Coordinating Council