1. Reliability & Market Impacts Resulting from RC Expansion
OC Leadership Team
Rich Hydzik & Bert Peters
MIC Leadership Team
Andy Meyers & Brad Bouillon
April 30th 2018

2. Reliability & Market Impacts Resulting from RC Expansion
RC Expansion & Market Impacts
Proposed construct has 3-4 Reliability Coordinators in the West
Binding commitments by entities are expected late 2018 (~November)
Many entities currently saying “all options” are on the table meaning they are evaluating PEAK, CAISO, SPP (for MTWG)
Respective RC’s will have clear visibility to the footprint of their Market
Coordination agreements between RC’s would be required
Will RC’s have clear visibility to neighboring RC’s footprints?
Potential for Swiss Cheese
West is currently contiguous but with all the choices, neighboring entities could select differing RC’s/Markets (resulting in each RC footprint looking like Swiss Cheese)

3. Reliability & Market Impacts Resulting from RC Expansion
Markets
Impacts to watch for
Affects on bilateral liquidity
Differences in market products and scheduling timelines
Is one market incentivizing a product compared to another
Resource availability to meet energy emergencies & reliability issues
Barriers to market entry and participation

4. Reliability & Market Impacts Resulting from RC Expansion
Today’s Operating Conditions with Single RC
Visibility of entire interconnection
Common data sharing process and library
Consistent System Operating Limit methodology
Single West System Model at RC level
EOP coordination (EEA, restoration, etc.) with one RC
Reliability Messaging Tool
Unscheduled Flow Mitigation coordination
Western Interchange Tool (WIT) administrator
Coordinated Outage System

5. Reliability & Market Impacts Resulting from RC Expansion
Peak RC developed tools
Hosted Advanced Applications
Enhanced Curtailment Calculator
Voltage Stability Tool
Real Time Displays
Synchrophaser applications

6. Reliability & Market Impacts Resulting from RC Expansion
Multiple RC Challenges
Interconnection wide operational processes and tools
Unscheduled Flow Mitigation
Western Interchange Tool
Coordinated Outage System
West System Model
Remote Messaging Tool
Next Day Study library
Merchant Alert Protocol
These responsibilities must be coordinated among RC’s or delegated to one RC

7. Reliability & Market Impacts Resulting from RC Expansion
Multiple RC Challenges
Process Coordination
System Restoration, review, training
RAS review and coordination
There are others that will come up
It may be appropriate to consider a Reliability Coordinator coordinating group similar to NERC’s Operating Reliability Subcommittee

8. Reliability & Market Impacts Resulting from RC Expansion
Conclusions
Conditions are changing in the West, and will continue to change for the next several months
Most entities have not confirmed their direction so far as RC choice
There is no requirement to confirm an RC provider until after summer
Interconnection wide operating processes will require careful coordination

9. Questions? Andy Meyer (BPA) MIC Chair
Brad Bullion (CISO) MIC Vice Chair
Rich Hydzik (AVA) OC Chair
Bert Peters (APS) OC Vice Chair