1. Standards Review Subcommittee Update
February 23, 2016
Chair
Rebecca Berdahl, BPA

2. Ongoing Review Activities
Continue Review of NERC Activity
Review WEQ Recommendations, Interpretations, and Minor Corrections posted for Formal Comments
Glossary Coordination with Retail Glossary Subcommittee
Ongoing Cross Quadrant Review of:
Standards Requests
Minor Corrections
Clarifications /Interpretations

3. NERC Monitored Projects
Project FERC Order 779, Geomagnetic Disturbance
FERC Tech Conference
Project Dispersed Generation
Small scale generation projects
Solar, wind, flywheel, etc…
Project Reliability Coordinator roles
Design and implement aspects of RAS to support system reliability
Impartial from the business relationships between entities involed in the planning/ownership/implementation etc…
Is the approver although technical groups can review and opine
Project Determine and communicate System Operating Limits

4. Project 2010-14.2.1 BAL-005, BAL-006, FAC-001
BAL-005 establish requirements to gather data in support of the calculation and report of ACE for the balance of resource and load under the Tie-Line Bias Control.
BAL-006 define a BA process to mitigate the dependency on other Interconnection BAAs to meet their Interchange (e.g., demand) responsibilities including agreeing upon the hourly MW amounts of scheduled and actual Interchange between them.
During the monthly NERC coordination discussion led by Kathy York, NERC stated that the modification of the BAL-006 would not necessitate the retirement of the NAESB WEQ-007 Booklet.

5. BAL Standard Projects Project 2010-14.1 BAL-002 Contingency Reserve
Multiple NERC Glossary Terms additions and modifications: Balancing Contingency Event, Most Severe Single Contingency, Reportable Balancing Contingency Event, Contingency Event Recovery Period, Contingency Reserve Restoration Period, Pre-Reporting Contingency Event ACE Value, Reserve Sharing Group Reporting ACE, Contingency Reserve
Project BAL-005, -006 Host BA meets balancing obligations
Project technical white paper includes evaluation of WEQ-007 on the basis on modifications made to these two reliability standards
Project Retire BAL-004
Initial ballot scheduled for November 2015, SDT recommends retirement
Various stages of development
BAL-002 balloting complete, submitted to NERC BOT for adoption
BAL-005 & -006 September 2015 industry comments are in SDT review
BAL-004 balloting and industry review November 2015 with the SDT recommending retirement

6. Questions for the EC
Should a WGQ Liason to the SRS be determined to support the WGQ discussions and review (e.g., Minor Corrections)?
The SRS has reviewed 6 Minor Corrections from the WGQ during its meeting in January and February 2016