1. Welcome to the GADSTF Meeting

2. Thursday Agenda September 30 | 9:00am-5:00pm 9:00am – 10:00pm
Meet in Full Session
Welcome to Oglethorpe Steve MacDonald, Host
Public Notice Mike Curley
Antitrust Mike Curley
Opening Remarks/Expectations Ben Crisp/Mark Lauby
Review Charter Ben Crisp
Review of Section Mike Curley/Mark Lauby
Review Work Plan Mike Curley
 10:00am – 10:15am Break

3. Thursday Agenda 10:15am – 12:00pm Status Report Leadership Team
Activities to date
Status of section and next steps
Meeting the work plan
Assignment to Subgroups Ben Crisp/Mike Curley
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch

4. Thursday Agenda 1:00am – 5:00pm Meet in Sub-groups
Introduction – Each sub-group will meet in separate rooms. The leader or assistant leader will conduct the meeting.
Review minutes and discussions from conference calls
Plan/review report to entire GADSTF on Friday. (We can make arrangements if you need a projector for the sub-group meetings. Please let Mike Curley know ahead of time.)
PowerPoint presentation?
Word document?
Document recommendations for GADSTF. These recommendations are needed for the report to the Planning Committee report in December.
Other and Future Considerations

5. Thursday Night
For those who might be interested, Steve MacDonald offered a tour of their 1000 MW pumped storage plant about 70 miles north of the office. The tour would begin about a ½ hour after the end of first day’s meeting. We would leave the hotel, stop in Marietta for dinner and let rush hour traffic clear out, then head to the plant hopefully getting there right around sunset. Do a quick plant tour and get back to the hotel by 11:00 p.m. Steve has a van and room for about 10 to 12. If you want to go on the tour, please let Steve know.

6. Friday Agenda 8:00am – 10:00am Meet in Sub-groups (Continued)
10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 12:00pm Meet in Full Session
Sub-group reports and recommendations Leadership Team
Design
Event
Performance
Wind
The key conclusions and learning from each individual sub-groups
The conclusions, learning and recommendations.
Comments/concerns raised in each sub-group
Next steps for each sub-group.

7. Friday Agenda Time-table for completing the GADSTF report for the PC
Updates to Sub-group reports due …
Draft of GADSTF report to GADSTF members for review (Due x days to review it and return comments)
Draft of GADSTF report (after GADSTF review) to RIS for review due …
Final of GADSTF report to PC (November 19, 2010)
Next Meeting All
Adjourn

8. NERC Data Collection & Coordination

9. Rules of Procedure: Section 1600 Overview
NERC’s authority to issue a mandatory data request in the U.S. is contained in FERC’s rules. Volume 18 C.F.R. Section 39.2(d) states: “Each user, owner or operator of the Bulk-Power System within the United States (other than Alaska and Hawaii) shall provide the Commission, the Electric Reliability Organization and the applicable Regional Entity such information as is necessary to implement section 215 of the Federal Power Act as determined by the Commission and set out in the Rules of Procedure of the Electric Reliability Organization and each applicable Regional Entity.”

10. Rules of Procedure: Section 1600 Request Details
A complete data request includes:
a description of the data or information to be requested, how the data or information will be used, and how the availability of the data or information is necessary for NERC to meet its obligations under applicable laws and agreements
a description of how the data or information will be collected and validated
a description of the entities (by functional class and jurisdiction) that will be required to provide the data or information (“reporting entities”)
the schedule or due date for the data or information
a description of any restrictions on disseminating the data or information (e.g., “confidential,” “critical energy infrastructure information,” “aggregating” or “identity masking”)
an estimate of the relative burden imposed on the reporting entities to accommodate the data or information request

11. Rules of Procedure: Section 1600 Procedure
Acting
Subgroup
NERC Approval Committees
Not Approved
Submit
Data
Request
to DCS
Submit
Data
Request
to PC
Draft
Data
Request
Not Approved
Data Rule
In Effect
FERC Comment Period
Public Comment Period
Submit
Data
Request
File Data
Request
(21 Days)
Post Data
Request
(45 Days)
No Appeal
Collect,
Respond, &
Post
Comments
NERC Board of Trustees
Affected Parties
Submit
Final Data
Request
Appeal
(30 Days)
Finalize
Data
Request
Approved
Not Approved

12. Rules of Procedure: Section 1600 Limitations
NERC Registered Entities
Subject to FERC Rules
Data Request does not carry the same penalties to non-U.S. entities.
However, all NERC Registered Entities, regardless of their country of origin, must comply with the NERC Rules of Procedure, and as such, are required to comply with Section 1600

13. What If a GO Doesn’t Comply?
Possible NERC actions:
From Rule 1603:  “Owners, operators, and users of the bulk power system registered on the NERC Compliance Registry shall comply with authorized requests for data and information.”  The data request must identify which functional categories are required to comply with the request. In this case, it presumably would be Generation Owners.

14. What If a GO Doesn’t Comply?
Possible NERC actions:
NERC will audit the GADS data submittals through logical evaluations of the data reported and that previously reported by the entity.  Reconciliation findings will be reviewed with the reporting entity.

15. What If a GO Doesn’t Comply?
Possible NERC actions:
NERC may resort to a referral to FERC for only United States entities, not Canadian entities. NERC will make use of the mechanisms it has available for both U.S. and Canadian entities (notices, letters to CEO, requests to trade associations for assistance, peer pressure) to gain compliance with the NERC Rules. A failure to comply with NERC Rules could also be grounds for suspension or disqualification from membership in NERC. Whether or not NERC chooses to use that mechanism will likely depend on the facts and circumstances of the case.
NERC cannot impose penalties for a failure to comply with a data request.

16. What If a GO Doesn’t Comply?
Possible FERC actions:
All members of NERC (US and Canadian) are bound by their membership agreement with NERC to follow NERC’s Reliability Standards and Rules of Procedure, including section  
Under section 215 of the Federal Power Act, FERC has jurisdiction over all users, owners, and operators of the bulk power system within the United States.
FERC could treat a failure by a U.S. entity to comply with an approved data request as a violation of a rule adopted under the Federal Power Act using its enforcement mechanisms in Part III of the FPA.

17. What If a GO Doesn’t Comply?
What about Canada?
Canadian provinces who have signed agreements stating they recognize NERC’s ERO status, will be compliant with the NERC approved standards and Rules of Procedure issued by the NERC Board.
The obligation arises for the Canadian utilities if they are members of NERC. For example, if Canadian Utility “A” is a member of NERC, then it must go by the Rules of Procedure, standards, etc. If Canadian Utility “X” is not a NERC member but its providence recognizes NERC as their ERO, then Utility “X” is not under obligation to follow the rules.

18. Questions?