1. Eric Baran, WIRAB Staff April 30, 2018
WIRAB’s Principles for the WECC Board of Directors on Setting Strategic Priorities
Eric Baran, WIRAB Staff
April 30, 2018

2. Background
Report – Reliability Risk Priorities for the Western Interconnection (August 2017)
WIRAB Advice to the NERC Board of Trustees on the ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report (January 2018)
WIRAB Staff’s participation in WECC’s Reliability Workshop (March 2018)
WIRAB Advice to the WECC Board of Directors on Setting Strategic Priorities (April 2018)

3. Today’s Messages Risk Prioritization Follow Through
Uniqueness to the West
WECC’s Ability to Make an Impact
Follow Through
Who?
What?
When?
Preliminary Reactions to Near-term Priorities

4. NERC Prioritization of Reliability Risk Profiles
Inherent Risk Mapping
Risk Profiles
More
Changing Resource Mix
BPS Planning
Resource Adequacy
Increasing Complexity in Protection and Control Systems
Human Performance and Skilled Workforce
Loss of Situational Awareness
Extreme Natural Events
Physical Security Vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Risk Mapping
Higher Likelihood, Higher Impact
Higher Likelihood, Lower Impact
Lower Likelihood, Higher Impact
Lower Likelihood, Lower Impact 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 1 3 2 6
Impact to BPS Reliability 8 4 7 5
Less
More
Likeliness of BPS-wide Occurrence

5. Criteria for Risk Prioritization for WECC
Uniqueness to the West
WECC’s Ability to Make an Impact

6. WIRAB Risk Prioritization for WECC
WECC’s Ability to Make an Impact
Less Ability
More Ability
Uniqueness to the Western Interconnection
More
Unique
Loss of Situational Awareness
 Extreme Natural Events
Resource Adequacy and Performance 
 Increasing Complexity in Protection and Control Systems
Changing Resource Mix
Physical Security Vulnerabilities
Bulk-Power System Planning
Less
Human Performance and Skilled Workforce
Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities 6 7 3 4 1 8 2
Increasing Prioritization 5 9

7. WIRAB’s Top Risks for WECC to Address
Changing Resource Mix
BPS Planning
Resource Adequacy and Performance
Increasing Complexity in Control Systems
Loss of Situational Awareness

8. All Risk Profiles are Important
Monitor
Extreme Natural Events
Human Performance & Skilled Workforce
Participate & Support
Cyber Security
Physical Security
Initiate & Study
Changing Resource Mix
BPS Planning
Resource Adequacy & Performance
Loss of Situational Awareness
Increasing Complexity of Protection & Control Systems

9. WECC Board Follow Through on Top Priorities
Who should be directed to take action?
What is the deliverable they should provide?
When will this be provided?
How is left to WECC management and committees.
How may have WECC budget implications.
The WECC Board should adopt a small set of Follow Through Action Items

10. Suggested Board Actions for Follow Through
Changing Resource Mix:
Direct the WECC RAC to complete a reliability assessment of frequency response in 2028 (under a changed resource mix) by the end of 2019.
Direct the WECC RAC to collect data on current and future penetrations of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) in the West by the end of 2020.
Direct WECC Management to develop probabilistic modeling capability to assess resource adequacy in (under a changed resource mix) by the end of 2020.

11. Suggested Board Actions for Follow Through
Increasing Complexity in Control Systems:
Direct WECC Management to complete a information request of generator control settings (inverter, governor, and plant) to determine if additional outreach and guidance is warranted by the end of 2019.
Loss of Situational Awareness:
Direct a WECC OC task force to provide a report on potential seams issues created by multiple RCs by the end of 2019.

12. Preliminary Reaction to Near-Term Priorities
Near-term priorities proposed by the WECC team:
Align with those identified by WIRAB
Narrow the focus of the Risk Profiles
Near-term priorities could be more effective by:
Clarifying the scope of what action will be taken
Clarifying who will conduct the work
Clarifying when the work will be completed

13. Thank You
Eric Baran
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