1. WECC Staff Risk Prioritization
Branden Sudduth
Director, Reliability Risk Management
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

2. Near-Term Priority Identification
Reliability Issues
Let others take the lead but stay abreast of the issue
Monitor
Let others take the lead (NERC, DOE, EPRI, etc.) but participate and communicate results
Participate & Support
Initiate &
Study
WECC Near-Term Priorities = the issue has a unique impact or importance to the Western Interconnection and/or WECC can make a material contribution
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

3. Efforts Currently Underway
Event Analysis lessons learned
Base case process improvement
Natural gas/electric interdependence
Reliability Coordinator certification
Anchor Data Set (ADS) improvements
Regional Standard review
Data sharing (specifically CEII)
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

4. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Monitor
Cybersecurity
Policy decisions
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

5. Participate and Support
Synchrophasor data management
Essential Reliability Service analysis
System recovery and resilience
Inverter challenges
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

6. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Initiate and Study
Impacts of the changing load and resource mix
Impacts of potential Reliability Coordinator and market structures
Methods to improve coordination between WECC and the Regional and International Planning Groups
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

7. Recommended Near-Term Priorities
Improve the modeling of inverter-based resources in WECC’s base cases with a focus on utility-scale photovoltaic, battery storage and distributed energy resources.
Evaluate the impacts of the changing resource mix on:
Existing Path Ratings
Remedial Action Scheme effectiveness/fault duty
Resource adequacy (evaluate RA methods)
Distributed energy resources
ERS specific to the Western Interconnection
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

8. Near-Term Priorities (cont.)
Evaluate potential reliability risks and market impacts resulting from the expansion of RC/market service providers in the Western Interconnection.
Improve coordination by clarifying the roles, responsibilities and relationships between WECC, the Regional Planning Groups, International Planning Groups, Transmission Planners and other stakeholders involved in BPS planning.
Western Electricity Coordinating Council