1. Kathy Anderson October 2015 MIC Meeting
NAESB Update
Kathy Anderson
October 2015 MIC Meeting

2. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
Request was to develop, modify, or delete business practice standards to support Request R14002 (NERC Project ATC Revisions (MOD A))
NAESB WEQ preserving NERC rejected ATC standards

3. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
The Business Practice Subcommittee’s recommendation contained two controversial standards, as follows:
XXX-1.4 Each Transmission Service Provider shall not grant a request for Firm Transmission Service on an ATC Path that serves as an interface with another BA if the net of the Firm Transmission Service transactions into and out of the Transmission Service Provider’s BA would exceed the sum of the Facility Ratings of Tie Facilities to which Transmission Service Providers mutually agree they have the right to use the Tie Facilities that comprise the ATC Path, between the two BAs.

4. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
XXX Each Transmission Service Provider shall limit the Interchange Schedule (both Firm and non-Firm) of the reservations on an ATC path into and out of Transmission Service Provider’s BA on an interface with another BA such that the net Interchange Schedule does not exceed the sum of the Facility Ratings of Tie Facilities to which Transmission Service Providers mutually agree they have the right to use the Tie Facilities that comprise the ATC Path, between the two BAs.

5. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
The Independent Grid Operator (IGO) segment does not like these two standards and tried to get them removed. That attempt failed, so a compromise was crafted.
Recommendation finally passed by the EC with agreement to form a new EC task force to address more fully these two standards.

6. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
EC also approved eliminating the masking of TSRs’ source and sink when requested status reaches any final state (a.k.a. denied, withdrawn refused, displaced, invalid, declined, annulled, retracted, or confirmed).

7. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
Approved a “No Action” recommendation regarding 2005 standard request asking for a standard that would eliminate the disparity of posting “sensitive” information. (CIS and CSS worked on PKI standards which have resolved this, thus no actions)

8. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
Develop standards to support the Transmission Provider right to reassess the availability of “conditional firm” - the Transmission Provider may elect to waive or extend the right to perform a Biennial Reassessment.

9. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
To be consistent with ¶51 of FERC Order No. 890-A, added TFC, FAFC, and NFAFC values to the “System_Attribute” data element of the NAESB Standard WEQ-003: OASIS S&CP Data Dictionaries
To be consistent with ¶51 of FERC Order No. 890-A, added TFC, FAFC, and NFAFC values to the “System_Attribute” data element of the NAESB Standard WEQ-003: OASIS S&CP Data Dictionaries.

10. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
Corrected WEQ for Resale off OASIS by eliminating the “no later than 24 hours prior” to confirming requirement.
The Assignee must execute a service agreement with the Transmission Provider that will govern the provision of reassigned service no later than twenty-four hours prior to the Assignee confirming the Resale on OASIS. the scheduling deadline applicable for the commencement of the reassigned service. The Transmission Provider may establish a blanket service agreement to include Resale transactions.
The Assignee must execute a service agreement with the Transmission Provider that will govern the provision of reassigned service no later than twenty-four hours prior to the Assignee confirming the Resale on OASIS. the scheduling deadline applicable for the commencement of the reassigned service. The Transmission Provider may establish a blanket service agreement to include Resale transactions.

11. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
Approved modifications to WEQ-004 Coordinate Interchange Business Practice Standards to require the tagging of Intra-Balancing Authority transactions.
This was NERC INT – LSE issue
BPA supported recommendation; Independent Grid Operators/Planners (IGO)

12. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
Approved “no action” recommendation regarding the modification of WEQ standards to address XML vulnerability exploits.
CISS and CSS - no known vulnerabilities to fix
CISS and CSS - no known vulnerabilities to fix

13. August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting
Approved Minor Correction to NAESB WEQ Business Practice Standards Version 003.1, WEQ-001, WEQ-002, and WEQ-013 OASIS, Version To change the wording of the phrases:
“shall have the right to”,
“shall be allowed to”,
“shall be permitted, but is not required, to”,
“shall be permitted to”, and
“shall have the ability to”
to “may”, along with other consistency changes.

14. NAESB WEQ Firm Redirects from Conditional Parents Task Force Update
One conference call
Evident that non-consensus still exists
Still waiting for FERC staff guidance
Earlier this month, NAESB received word that internal to FERC, consensus on how to handle the conditional parent scenario has not been reached and was unlikely based on our informal request.
As such, NAESB staff and WEQ leadership will proceed with preparing a filing of Version 3.1 of the WEQ standards. It is intended that the filing include a concise request for guidance regarding the conditional parent scenario.

15. NAESB OASIS Subcommittee Update
Continued work on Competition and Preemption (split into LTerm & STerm)
Some rework expected once FERC accepts the Entergy/Dynergy modification in the 3.1 publication
Working on standards to support a “merger” or “consolidation” function for firm TSRs

16. NAESB CISS Update Market Operator as an unique Code-Roll
Will require changes to:
EIR
WEQ-004
e-Tag
Collecting next round of e-Tag changes

17. NAESB Standards Membership
Western Interconnection needs representation at NAESB
NAESB standards find their way into your tariffs