1. Merrill Brimhall – Engineer, Staff
WECC Standards Update
Merrill Brimhall – Engineer, Staff
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

2. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Topics
Upcoming Ballots
Revisions to the WECC Reliability Standards Development Procedures
Recent Ballot Results
Recently Retired Regional Criteria
Standards Retirement Update
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3. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Upcoming Ballot
WECC Regional Variance to NERC MOD and MOD-027-1
Lower threshold for applicability
One baseline test required
More frequent validation
Initially balloted in October 2015
Error in versions posted for ballot
WECC Standards Committee agreed to void ballot results
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4. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Upcoming Ballot
WECC Regional Variance to NERC MOD and MOD-027-1
Ballot Pool forming July 5-29, 2016
Ballot conducted August 9-25, 2016
Results of the ballot presented to the WSC on September 20, 2016
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5. Revisions to the WECC Reliability Standards Development Procedures
Proposed revisions are currently posted for comment through August 1, 2016
Proposal to redefine WECC Standards Voting Sectors
Sectors would no longer be defined based on registration in the NERC Compliance Registry
Proposal is to use the NERC voting segments
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6. Revisions to the WECC Reliability Standards Development Procedures
Reduced the initial 45-day posting requirement to 30 days
Nearly all comments are received during the last three days of the comment window
Application to join the Ballot Body must precede a Ballot Pool by no less than five days
Closer alignment with NERC procedures
Summary of all changes and a redline available on the WECC-0117 web page
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7. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Recent Ballot Results
TPL-001-WECC-CRT-3, Transmission System Planning Performance
Ballot Pool – 92
Quorum percent
Weighted approval 85 percent
VAR-501-WECC-3, Power System Stabilizers
Quorum percent
Weighted approval 66 percent
Both scheduled to be presented to the Board in September
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8. Retired Regional Criteria
MOD-(11 and 13)-WECC-CRT-1-1, Steady State and Dynamic Data
Retirement effective July 1, 2016 coincident with the effective date of MOD-032-1
MOD replaced MOD-010 through MOD-015
MOD-011 and MOD-013 were fill-in-the-blank standard requiring the Region to have a documented process for collecting Steady State and Dynamic Data
WECC Criterion no longer required, so it was retired
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9. Retired Regional Criteria
PRC-024-WECC-CRT-0.1, Low Voltage Ride Through
Retirement effective July 1, 2016 coincident with the effective date of PRC-024-1
Content of the WECC Criterion is addressed in the new NERC Standard
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10. Update on Efforts to Retire Regional Reliability Standards
WECC Regional Variance to FAC-010 and FAC-011
Submittal of materials to NERC for adoption is on hold pending PCC action this week
Majority of the Regional Variance is now addressed in TPL-001-4
Remaining outages and performance requirements proposed for inclusion in the Annual Progress Report Procedures
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11. Update on Efforts to Retire Regional Reliability Standards
TOP-007-WECC-1a, System Operating Limits
A Joint NERC/WECC Petition for Retirement was filed with FERC on March 23, 2016
FERC had questions pertaining to the Standard
FERC, NERC, WECC call in April to discuss questions
WECC developed a response to the questions and had a call with NERC on July 8.
Trying to schedule a call with FERC in the next two weeks
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