1 Progress Report Policies and Procedures Tom Green PCC Salt Lake City July 15, 2014

2 Scope 1. Review Progress Report Process 2. Ensure Consistency with Project Coordination and Path Rating Processes 3. Describe Waiver Process 4. Determine Appropriate Oversight 5. Recommend Modifications to PCC

3 Team  Kent Bolton (WECC)  Enoch Davies (WECC)  Bob Easton (Western)  Tom Duane (PNM)  Tom Green (PSCo)  Brian Keel (SRP)  Marv Landaur (Columbia Grid)  Peter Mackin (USE)  Craig Quist (PacifiCorp)  Tracy Rolstad (Avista)  Joe Seabrook (PSE)  Chifong Thomas (Smart Bright Wire Source Grid

4 Issues  Implementation  Effectiveness  Content  Schedule  Review  Oversight  Progress Reports; WECC Staff & TSS  Project Coordination: PCC, TEPPC  Path Rating: PRG, PCC,  Waiver  “Significant Transmission Project”  All Projects over 200kV Must Go Through Project Coordination  Burden on PCC Chair

5 Task Force Conclusions  Process is Useful and Informative  TSS Appropriate Venue for Review  PCC Appropriate for Oversight  Bright Lines (200kV / 200 MW) OK  Initial & Supplemental OK  Schedules OK  Waiver Process Needs Revision  Comprehensive Requirements Need Revision

6 Changes 1. General 1. Titles 2. Project Coordination 1. P 9: Minor Deletion 2. P 20: Waiver Process 1. Title 2. Credit for Outside Venue Coordination 3. Considerations for Significant Impact 3.Progress Report Procedures 1. P 114: Waiver Process Repeated 2. P 116: Comprehensive Progress Report 1. Minimum Requirements 2. Additional Requirements for Rating Process

7 Waiver Information 1. Description of how the Project, has been coordinated through TEPPC, an SPG, or some other appropriate venue. 2. Considerations for “Significant” impact to WECC System:  Are there any impacts to other systems – have studies demonstrated?  Is there any impact on flow of energy on other systems?  Are any WECC transfer paths impacted?  Is some kind of flow control device needed or required as a part of the project?  Is the project connected to other utilities systems?  Do disturbances impact other entities?

8 Comprehensive Report Content 1. Initial Progress Report Requirements 2. Geographic Diagram 3. Modeling Details 4. Transfer Capability, impacts to other paths, etc. 1. Description of System Conditions 2. Operating Conditions 3. Non-Simultaneous and Simultaneous Interactions  Don’t have to identify mitigation 4. List of Studies 5. Study Results, Plots, Contingencies 6. Milestone Schedule  Allow for TSS Monitoring

9 Process  The Progress Report Ad-hoc Task Force has modified the Project Coordination, Path Rating and Progress Report Processes documentation.  The changes are primarily to the Progress Report Policies and Procedures section, but some changes were also made to the Project Coordination section.  Both a red-line version and a clean version of the document were posted to the PCC section of the WECC website 30 days prior to the July 15, 2014 PCC meeting.

10 Motion Approve the modifications to the Project Coordination, Path Rating and Progress Report Processes.