Agenda

Resources Subcommittee

July 23, 2014 | 1:00–5:00 p.m. PDT

July24, 2014 | 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. PDT

Northwest Power Pool

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Portland, Oregon

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Introductions and Chair’s Remarks

NERC Antitrust Compliance Guidelines and Public Announcement

Agenda Items

1.Administrative

a.Membership and Guests* — Chair Beckerle

i.Resource Subcommittee (RS) Organization and Assignments

ii.RS Roster

iii.RS Survey Contacts

b.Arrangements — Don Badley

c.Parliamentary Procedures* — Larry Kezele

d.Approve — Meeting Agenda — Chair Beckerle

e.Approve — April23–24, 2014 Meeting Minutes* — Chair Beckerle

f.Resources Subcommittee Action Items List*—Chair Beckerle

g.NERC–RS Confidentiality Agreement* — Chair Beckerle

2.Working Groups and Task Force Reports

  1. Frequency Work Group — Sydney Niemeyer
  2. Inadvertent Interchange Work Group — Tabitha Hernandez
  3. Reserve Work Group —Bob Klueber

3.NERC Related Activity

  1. NERC Operating Committee Action Items Assigned to RS —Chair Beckerle
  2. Reliability Guideline: Generating Unit Operations During Complete Loss of Communications—Vice Chair Blalock

1)Operating Committee Concerns with Initial Version of the Reliability Guideline:

  • Individuals in substations (personnel safety)
  • Transmission element overloads (SOLs or IROLs)
  • Conflict with EOP-002 (Requirement R5)
  • Generators controlling to voltage
  1. Eastern Interconnection Frequency Initiative Status Report—Vice Chair Blalock
  2. Status – NERC Data Repository
  3. Time Error Correction – Field Test to Reduce the Number and Depth of Time Error Corrections – Chair Beckerle

4.NERC Reliability Standards and Reliability Related Documents

a.Information – Project 2007-12 (Frequency Response)–Time Line of Implementation Activities Prior to the Compliance Enforcement Dates — Tom Pruitt and Bob Cummings

Background – BAL-003-1 (Frequency Response and Frequency Bias Setting) was adopted by the NERC Board of Trustees on February 7, 2013 and was filed at FERC on March 29, 2013. On July 18, 2013, FERC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking wherein FERC proposes to approve Reliability Standard BAL-003-1.On January 16, 2014, FERC approved BAL-003-1.

Regulatory Considerations:

i.Determination of compliance enforcement dates

Technical Considerations:

  1. Fixed and Variable Bias and Forms 1 and 2
  2. BAL-003-1 Webcast
  3. FERC Form 714 data
  4. Field trial to test the transition from 1.0 % Bias to 0.9% Bias

b.Project 2010-14.2 Periodic Review of BAL Standards— Don Badley

i.BAL-004-0 (Time Error Correction)

ii.BAL-005-0.2b (Automatic Generation Control)

iii.BAL-006-2 (Inadvertent Interchange)

5.RS Software Applications — Frank Carrera

6.2013 Frequency Event Characteristics and Observations for each Interconnection — Carlos Martinez

7.Frequency and Control Performance and Time Error

  1. Second Quarter Frequency Performance Report for all Four Interconnections —Song Xue
  2. Frequency Performance, Trends, and Events and Time Error

i.Western Interconnection —John Tolo

ii.Eastern Interconnection — Brad Gordon, Terry Bilke

iii.ERCOT Interconnection — Sydney Niemeyer

iv.Hydro Québec Interconnection — Francis Monette

CLOSED SESSION (NDA required)

a.CPS1, CPS2, BAAL Data Trends — Chair Beckerle

b.DCS Data Trends — Chair Beckerle

END CLOSED SESSION

8.Future Meetings

a.October 29–30, 2014 – Las Vegas, NV (WECC RS Members Coordinating) or Austin, TX (ERCOT RS Members Coordinating)

b.January 28–29, 2015 – Miami, FL (FRCC RS Members Coordinating)

c.April 22–23, 2015 – TBD

d.Schedule future meetings

*Background materials included.

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