1. Stacen Tyskiewicz CIIMS Chair July 12, 2016
CIIMS Update
Stacen Tyskiewicz
CIIMS Chair
July 12, 2016

2. Critical Infrastructure & Information Management Subcommittee (CIIMS)
EMS Event Analysis
Standards
Work Group Reports
Energy Management Systems Work Group (EMSWG)
Data Exchange Work Group (DEWG)
Physical Security Work Group (PSWG)
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

3. EMS Event Analysis

4. WECC EMS Event Analysis
So far in 2016, 5 EMS events have been reported:
Date
Duration (mins)
Category
Root Cause
Feb 10
104
Network Infrastructure
A1 – Design/Engineering
Feb 29
125
A3 – Individual Human Performance
Mar 18 97
EMS Software
AX – Other
116
A2 – Equipment/Material
Mar 26
220
Facilities
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

5. WECC EMS Event Analysis
Duration of Each EMS Outage Event
2015
2016
<30 minutes not reportable
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

6. NERC Event Analysis

7. Standards
TOP-001-3
TOP-003-3

8. Standards TOP-003-3 (becomes effective 1/1/2017)
Requires each TOP and BA to document and distribute data requests for all data required to perform its monitoring, analyses and assessments; and for each data-owner to satisfy the data request.
WECC TOP-003 Task Force
The TOP-003 Task Force is proposing a common approach for all WECC entities to take in achieving and maintaining compliance with this new standard.  Essentially, Peak RC will provide a secure location through which all TOPs and BAs can share model and forecast data, complete lists of all available ICCP points and any other documents that need to be shared.

9. Standards: TOP-003 Task Force
TOP3 TF Members
Stacen Tyskiewicz (BPA)
Gareth Lim (Peak RC)
April Freeman (Peak RC)
Jonathan Aust (WAPA)
Jim Hiebert (CAISO)
Craig Figart (Avista)
Parviz Ebrahimzadeh (SDG&E)
Nico Chondro (PGE)
Jan Grammar (PGE)
Skye Sellars (TPWR)
Chris Yoon (PSE)
Deliverables
Survey
Requirements document
“TOP-003 Guidelines” Document
Template for the data specification
List of POCs per entity

10. Standards
TOP (R9)
Requirement 9: Each BA and TOP shall notify its RC and known impacted interconnected entities of all planned outages, and unplanned outages of 30 minutes or more, for telemetering and control equipment, monitoring and assessment capabilities, and associated communication channels between the affected entities.
In their response to the WECC EMSWG question involving interpretation of TOP R9, WECC seems to indicate that entities are required to notify data-sharing partners prior to a momentary outage related to a regularly scheduled EMS failover.   The WECC EMSWG strongly disagrees with this guidance and would like to have the following interpretation approved: 
For Energy Management Systems (EMS), momentary outages caused by purposeful failovers between redundant systems are considered out-of-scope as “planned outages”.  If a purposeful failover is unsuccessful, resulting in an extended outage, then interconnected entities should be notified if that unplanned outage goes beyond the 30-minute time limit.

11. Work Group Reports

12. Energy Management Systems Work Group (EMSWG)
Chair: Jonathan Aust (WAPA)
In 2016, the EMSWG will be focused on newly approved standard TOP with a goal of ensuring a consistent understanding and collaborating on possible solutions and best practice.
Summary: Requires each TOP and BA to have criteria for evaluating, provisions to indicate and actions to address issues with quality in the real-time data used for monitoring and analysis.
Adoption by NERC Board: May 5, 2016

13. Data-Exchange Work Group (DEWG)
Chair: Devin Miroy (WAPA-SNR) Vice Chair: Eric Mscichowski (SMUD)
WON Connection and Data-Use Agreement
Approximately 25% of Connected Entities have signed and submitted the updated agreement.
WECCNet Retirement
Functionality of WECCNet was replaced by Peak RC’s new Reliability Messaging Tool (RMT)
RMT “Go Live” date was June 23
The old WECCNet system is no longer in use but will not be decommissioned for several weeks.

14. Physical Security Work Group (PSWG)
Chair: Jay Spradling (SRP)
In 2016, the PSWG will remain focused on CIP-014.
Their next meeting is scheduled for July and they plan to elect new leadership at the meeting. Other agenda topics include:
Update on CIP V.5 and CIP-014
Latest issues with handling bomb threats and scares from the Salt Lake City PD Bomb Squad
Lessons learned from a substation break-in
Securing a datacenter inside substation
The PSWG is working with WECC on identifying a secure location for sharing information with the broader WECC membership.