1. Steve Rueckert Director of Standards WSC Meeting Overview
March 5, 2019
Steve Rueckert
Director of Standards

2. INT-009-WECC-CRT-2 Capacity e-Tag Functionality
Motion to forward to WECC Board of Directors with request for approval
Five-year review
1) The Purchasing-Selling Entity was replaced with a newly-created applicable entity, “Any NAESB registered Entity (NRE),”, 2) measures were conformed to current drafting conventions, 3) rationale section was updated / use of proper nouns, and 4) syntax was corrected.
100 percent approval / no minority position

3. IRO-002-5, RC Monitoring/Analysis Regional Variance
Motion to forward to WECC Board of Directors with request for approval
Reliability Coordinators (RC) serving the Western Interconnection to: 1) develop a common Interconnection-wide method to determine the modeling and monitoring of elements necessary for providing operational awareness, and 2) use the method.
100 percent approval
Minority positions: use a specified model / “necessary” is ambiguous

4. BAL-002-WECC-2a Contingency Reserve
Motion to proceed to ballot
Request to retire Requirement R2 as redundant to NERC BAL-003 (Frequency Response)
Retire: BA/RSG to maintain at least ½ Contingency Reserve as Operating Reserve – Spinning that is: 1) is immediately and automatically responsive to frequency deviations through governor action or other control system, and 2) capable of fully responding within ten minutes

5. Standard Authorization Request
Motion to approve SAR / solicit a drafting team
SAR WECC-0137
Mandated five-year review
INT-018-WECC-CRT-1.2, Use of e-Tag Energy Product Codes Specific to the WECC
Generic review of the entire document

6. WECC Guideline Assignment of Drafting Teams
Motion to approve WECC Standards Committee Assignment of Drafting Teams (a WECC Guideline)
Uniform treatment when multiple candidates from the same company volunteer for a single team
Where multiple drafting team nominees from the same firm seek assignment to a single drafting team, that assignment is permissible; however, the represented entity has only one vote on matters presented to the drafting team for ballot.
Where presented with a list of drafting team nominees proposed for assignment to a drafting team created per the Procedures, the WSC may request that the names of nominees be kept confidential until assignment has been made.

7. W. Shannon Black
WECC Consultant, Standards Processes
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