1. Jason Ausmus, Jason Smith and Akshay Shivaram Peak Operations Planning
Outage Coordination, Data Quality Improvement and OPWG Efforts
October 24, 2017
Jason Ausmus, Jason Smith and Akshay Shivaram Peak Operations Planning

2. Overview Outage Coordination Process Data Quality Improvements
COS Data Dictionary
Operations Planning Working Group (OPWG)
Outage Coordination Phase II
Outage Coordination Process Metrics

3. Outage Coordination Process Observations
Process currently in the 5th month of existence (Apr 1st implementation)
Have had more than 43,119 outages submitted to COS (Apr – Sept)
21,462 considered in-scope for OC
7,767 generator outages
13,695 transmission outages

4. Outage Coordination Process Observations
Most of the issues from study process being observed/addressed in Short-Range
About 75% of all issues being identified in OC are being caught in the SR process vs the day-ahead OPA
One of the anticipated benefits of the OC Process
Multiple study iterations of the study are allowing for more potential issue to be identified
Reduces surprises for RT Ops

5. Outage Coordination Process Observations
All in-scope outages must be RC Confirmed prior to Implementation
Planned generator outages must be “BA & TOP Confirmed” not just “BA Confirmed”
Submitted vs Confirmed outage state usage
Enhancement being pursued to address this
Outage records looking ahead T+3 hours, need to be within +/- 1 hour accuracy

6. Outage Coordination Process Observations
Currently have a daily manual check for new outages
Late to start, missing outages, etc.
New EMS module Forced Outage Detection (FOD) will help automate these checks
COS enhancement already designed to allow for updating of record with actual start/end date/times, Phase 3a

7. Forced Outage Detection (FOD)
Compares COS data export, mapped to WSM
Delayed, early – Planned Outages, Missing – Forced A/E

8. Outage Coordination Process Reports
Two weekly reports being sent out
Short-Range “Outages at Risk” of missing window
Preliminary, proposed and planned gen outages with only BA Confirmation (need both BA and TOP)
Week ahead report for outage that have missed the window
E.g. outages in the submitted state, expired outages

9. Example Weekly Report – Approaching SR submission timeline

10. Example Weekly Report – Outages that missed SR

11. Outage Coordination Process Reports
Two COS Report variation also available at:
PeakRC.org->Library->Entity Studies->COS Outages

12. Example COS Outage Report

13. COS Patches / Minor Enhancements Apr 1st -> mid-Oct
Several small patches to COS have been applied since Apr 1st
Addressing miscellaneous software and OC Process issues
Examples include:
remote id search
revert auto-transitioned outages due to time updates
allow outage extensions with sufficient notice
prevent “Station” outages, enforce specific equip
Peak RCSO/ROE view improvements

14. COS Phase 3 Summary Implemented in production on 10/12/17
Please refer to recorded 12/7/16 webinar for details
Changes mostly centered around increased usage of COS Data Dictionary related to outage history
Some additional minor enhancements currently underway to expand on Phase 3 COS Data Dictionary build out, i.e. Phase 3a

15. Additional Enhancement Phase 3a
Another enhancement planned that will indicate key outage attribute data by record
OC In-Scope flag to be utilized in the future to eliminate the confusion with “Submit”
Additional usability improvements, e.g. filtering, dictionary update improvements

16. COS Status – Dictionary Standardization
Objective was ensure a one-to-on mapping of WSM to COS equipment
Other non-WSM also allowed in COS (e.g. RTU, SCADA, iccp, relay)
Initial effort focused on duplicates and including missing WSM equipment
Effort began last Oct 2016
Good response, but more work needed in this area

17. COS Status – Dictionary Standardization
Recently started 2nd and 3rd rounds of duplicate elimination and missing WSM elements
Peak Modeling is leading this effort and have been contacting each company as spreadsheets are developed
Spreadsheets were simplified for clarity
Sent out in “pieces”, duplicates and unmapped CROW are first

18. COS Dictionary Standardization Roadmap
Finish 2/3rd Cleanup rounds
Equipment Grouping
Jointly Operated Equipment
BES/non-BES Identification
Switching Point Association

19. Future COS Outage Record - w/COS Data Dictionary Populated

20. COS Outage Record w/Dictionary Populated

21. Operations Planning Working Group (OPWG)
WECC
NDSTF
NDSWG
Peak
OPWG
Group focused on Operations Planning study input data and study process
Group will have subgroup efforts (aka “small teams”)

22. OPWG and Subgroup Efforts?
Operations Planning Working Group
Outage Coordination Phase II
Outage Metrics ? ?

23. Outage Coordination Phase II
Initial focus will be on “cleaning up” process issues
One area of focus is in regards to change requests, e.g. delayed starts, outage extensions
Discussion around outage state, outage type changes, requiring actual start/end date/time entries, etc.

24. Outage Coordination Phase II
Future COS changes may result of process changes
OC Phase II will be involved in the design
Collaborate with other Peak efforts small team efforts
Seasonal Planning process
Data Request

25. Outage Coordination Metrics
Identify insightful outage metrics
Feedback necessary for Peak’s process improvement
Develop industry metrics to ensure OC Process consistency
Design metrics reporting, identify recipients and distribution

26. Example In-Scope Outages by Type

27. Example In-Scope Outages by Type - Generation outages

28. Example In-Scope Outages by Type - Transmission outages

29. Group Membership
will be forthcoming regarding volunteers for all 3 efforts
OPWG
OC Phase II
OC Metrics
Group formation in Nov
Kickoff meetings in Dec/Jan