1. 2019 Draft Budget Overview Jillian Lessner – Chief Financial Officer
Melanie Frye – VP, Reliability Planning and Performance Analysis
Dave Godfrey - VP, Entity Oversight
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2. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
2019 Draft Budget Overview
Assessments – $25.28 million
No change from 2018
Penalties - $504K
$1.60 million decrease (76.0%) from 2018
Expenditures - $26.95 million
$147K decrease (0.5%) from 2018
Reserves – use of $620K
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3. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
2019 Budget Drivers
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4. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
2018 to 2019 Comparison
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5. Budget by Statutory Program Area
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6. Reliability Assessment and Performance Analysis
Total FTE: 39
Management / Support                                                                                                    FTE: 6
Performance Analysis
Event Analysis
Reliability Planning
Reliability vulnerability assessments
Reliability Performance Index
Special assessments/deep dive into emerging issues
State of the Interconnection report
Assurance visits and operational practices assessments
NERC data management and analysis
NERC/ERO support and facilitation
Technical Committee support and facilitation
Event Analysis and lessons learned
Cause coding and Root Cause analysis
Event trending
Operational guidelines and good utility practices
RAC support and facilitation
Anchor Data Set development
Base case development
Production cost model development
Short circuit data collection and analysis
Study analysis and report generation
Resource adequacy assessments using probabilistic and deterministic methods
NERC and regional reliability assessments
Special reliability assessments
Database management and model development
Scenario development
BES exception processing
Project coordination and Path Rating process
FTE: 7
FTE: 4
FTE: 22
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7. Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Total FTE: 60
Management / International FTE: 3
Registration
Risk and Mitigation
Compliance Monitoring
Enforcement
Oversight Analysis and Program Services
Process Registration Requests
Ensure that WECC has the correct entities registered for the correct functions
Identify and investigate compliance gaps
Perform CIP and O&P Self Report, Mitigation Plan and Completion of Mitigation Plan reviews
Validate Self Certification responses
Support Enforcement
Perform Inherent Risk Assessments and develop Compliance Oversight Plans
Provide outreach
Compliance Monitoring; audits, spots checks, and investigations
Support for Risk Analysis, Internal Controls, and Enforcement
Process Open Enforcement Action
Conduct settlement activities
Issue Entity Penalty Invoices
Self-Logging Program management
Entity Internal Compliance Program Analysis
NERC/FERC reporting, interface, and data sync
Coordinate NERC Enforcement Oversight Activities
Program Coordination of all Compliance Monitoring Activities
Compliance Monitoring Schedules/History
Oversee Multi-Regional Registered Entity Coordinated Oversight Program
Manage Document Control
Management Reporting
Process Integration
FTE: 2
FTE: 11
FTE: 28
FTE: 8
FTE: 8
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8. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Comment Period Open
Draft BP&B posted on wecc.biz on April 30
Comments due Monday, May 21
Link to 2019 draft BP&B:
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