Jon Jensen Associate Staff Engineer Building a Project Jon Jensen Associate Staff Engineer Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council Project Files What is a Project File Naming Convention (Area Number)_(Company Name Acronym)_(Project Description) 40_BPA_PDCI Upgrade.prjx (PSS/E projects are *.prj) Project Types Base Case Corrections (possible extra for different MVA/kV brackets) Base Case Correction Generation < 20 MVA Generation ≥ 20 MVA Transmission/Load < 100 kV Transmission/Load ≥ 100 kV Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council Project Files (Cont.) Status Types Base Case Corrections Powerflow Dynamics (Not available at this time) WECC (WECC Staff use only) Generation and Transmission/Load Planned Proposed Exploratory Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Western Electricity Coordinating Council Project File Creation Demonstrate Project file creation with cases described yesterday .epc file upload in PSLF then export again Master Base Case (14HS4 Operating Case) Sample Project Case Describe Unassociated Criteria Flag Used to block reporting of changes to things not associated with compare by criteria Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Project File Submission Login to the BCCS Import Project Submission and Validation process Upload Preliminary Submit Pending approval Area Coordinator Pending acceptance WECC Staff Accepted “Committed” Reference Documents WECC BCCS Data Submitters Guide Guidelines-notes-draft ver 0.4 Western Electricity Coordinating Council

Project File 16lw1 Test Case What we are asking you to do: Create the project for this test case based off of Area, Owner(s) or Zone(s). transition from 14hs4 case to 16lw1 How will projects be submitted? Select appropriate area/owner(s)/zone(s) for data submission SRP Example Zone 999 – Missing data Western Electricity Coordinating Council