Branden Sudduth Director, Reliability Assessment and Performance Analysis Planning Coordinator Gap Update March 25, 2014 PCC Meeting – Salt Lake City

2 Perceived reliability risk because: o Several entities do not know who their Planning Coordinator is or mistakenly assume another entity is performing this function for them o There is a lack of clarity in Functional Model around who should be a Planning Coordinator o There is no clear definition of a Planning Coordinator Area o There may be reliability functions not being performed Planning Coordinator Gaps Issue

3 MOD-032 Standard Development o Passed final ballot in December 2013 o NERC Board approval February 2014 o Requires data providers to submit power flow, dynamics, and short-circuit data to their Planning Coordinator and Transmission Planner Events Creating Urgency

4 Base Case Data Submittal Process (current and general)

5 Base Case Data Submittal Process (MOD-032)

6 October 2013: PCC asks WECC staff to develop a list mapping Transmission Owners and Generator Owners to Planning Coordinators December 2013: System Review Work Group survey conducted to identify facilities not in a Planning Coordinator Area o PCs asked to respond to survey o Still collecting and compiling responses Planning Coordination Committee (PCC) Effort

7 Planning Coordinator Preliminary Survey Results as of

8 “Arizona” Area Unclaimed Buses

9 “Northwest” Area Unclaimed Buses

10 “Montana/WAPA UM” Area Unclaimed Buses

11 “PSCo/WAPA RM” Area Unclaimed Buses

12 “California” Area Unclaimed Buses

13 CAISO, BPA, and Rocky Mountain Region entities present Topics of discussion: o Interconnection-wide methodology ideal (recommendation) o Need to create a common understanding of PC o Issues around the Transmission Planner function o MOD-032 (Area Coordinator role) o Compliance concerns o Entity-level discussion of topic (BPA, CAISO, Xcel) o Processes for coordination Rocky Mountain Meeting To Discuss Planning Coordinator Gaps

Branden Sudduth WECC Questions?