1. Andy Meyers Market Interface Vice Chair January 2016 Tempe, AZ
OC & MIC Highlights
Andy Meyers
Market Interface Vice Chair
January 2016
Tempe, AZ
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2. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
OC/MIC Highlights
Standing Committee Meetings
OC, MIC, & Joint Session were held October 13-15, 2015
OC Recap
OC Structure Review Task Force
ISAS Charter
ATF eTags
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3. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
OC Recap
Structure Review Task Force
OC has created task force to look at committee/subcommittee/work group structure
OC Vice Chair, Rich Hydzik, will be TF Chair
TF to be comprised of 9 members
Volunteers for TF were sought last fall
TF will complete an evaluation in 2016 which will review the current need/value of all subcommittees
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OC Recap
ISAS
OC approved updated ISAS charter
ISAS members has approved charter in August 2015
eTag table was presented to OC members
OC member requested additional explanation behind the numbers
Action Item assigned to ISAS
ISAS to do an analysis of the reasons for the jump in numbers from 2013,2014, The results and additional statistics will be reported back to the OC at the next meeting to be held in March meeting.
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MIC Recap
MIC
Merchant Alert Protocol
Board Technical Session
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6. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
MIC Recap
Merchant Alert Protocol
MIC Chair presented to the WECC Board the specifics of the MAP and MIC’s efforts to keep MAP in place and functioning
Board expressed favorable sentiments of the work MIC has been doing related to MAP
Contract solution for work to get MAP messages from OASIS bulletin board to RMT has been worked out.
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MIC Recap
Merchant Alert Protocol
Contract solution for work to get MAP messages from OASIS bulletin board to RMT has been worked out
CO was issued through Westtrans user group. Idaho Power agreed to have OATI charge CO costs to them. PEAK will be reimbursing Idaho
CO required time to get proper contracting in place.
Contracts between all parties were resolved around Christmas.
If not already commencing, work will begin shortly on CO
Peak’s delay of RMT should mean that MAP functionality will be in place prior to Peak cutting over to RMT
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MIC Recap
Board Technical Session
As part of 4.9 review process each standing committee is being asked to provide a technical session on relevant committee topic to WECC Board
MIC will be facilitatimg technical session at WECC board meeting in early March
MIC has chosen EIM as the topic the technical session
Currently in the process of reaching out to number of entities in order to get a panel put together for the presentation
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9. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
OC/MIC Recap
OC & MIC Meeting minutes available on WECC website
Upcoming Standing Committee Meeting
March 22-24, 2015 La Jolla, CA
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Questions
Andy Meyers – Bonneville Power Administration
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