1. Data Coordination Working Group (DCWG) Status Report
Chuck Chakravarthi
Chair, DCWG
April 2008

2. DCWG Meeting April 9-10, 2008 (Washington, DC)
Met with EIA
Discussed DCWG Scope
Reviewed Action Items from the Last Meeting
Discussed DCWG Work Plan
Evaluated Confidence Levels for Capacity
Deliberated on Regional Feedback on Summer/LTRA data collection.
Discussed NERC’s current & future data analysis approach

3. Work Status: Joint Meeting with EIA (Task 6 of DCWG Work Plan)
Meeting held on April 9, 2008 in Washington D.C.
EIA to write letter to NERC outlining (Task 7 of DCWG work plan):
Improvements to Current EIA 411 Data Collection
Future Areas of Collaboration
Update NERC/EIA MOU
NERC to send letter to EIA thanking them (Bob Schnapp) for support on Schedule 7 (Transmission Outage Data) & Schedule 3.
DCWG to re-design Schedule 2 (Unified Generator Database):
Support LTRA
True-up to EIA 860
NERC to support Presidential Permitting for Canadian/Mexico Interconnections
EIA desires Spring/Fall Meetings

4. Work Status: DCWG Meeting
Meeting held on April 9-10, 2008 in Washington D.C.
Consistent Posting of Meeting Materials
Formed a task force defining confidence levels for capacity data (Fedora, Simons & Molesky along with a representative from SERC and NERC)
SERC to summarize data submittal recommendations based on regional feedback on the Summer/LTRA data collection
Request RAS move the LTRA due date to May 1 corresponding to EIA’s new due data of July 15, 2008
NPCC Representative (Fedora) will perform a trial run to demonstrate risk assessment approaches to capacity margin analysis (Supporting Task 4 of the DCWG Work plan)