Standards Review Subcommittee Update August 18, 2015 Chair Rebecca Berdahl, BPA

Meetings Recent Meetings: ◦June 11, 2015 ◦July 13, 2015 ◦August 13, 2015 Next Upcoming SRS Meeting ◦September 21, Monthly Conference Calls are posted to the SRS Webpage 2

Ongoing Activities Continue Review of NERC Activity Review WEQ Recommendations, Interpretations, and Minor Corrections posted for Formal Comments Glossary Coordination with Retail Glossary Subcommittee Ongoing Cross Quadrant Review of: ◦Standards Requests ◦Minor Corrections ◦Clarifications /Interpretations 3

NERC Monitored Projects 4 SRS will continue to monitor: o Project FERC Order 693, Real-time Sys Op Decisions o Project Physical Security (FERC Order 802) o Project FERC Order 804, Complete and accurate Load Forecasts including supporting methodology o Project BAL-002 BA Areas share equally in providing interconnection frequency support o Project BAL-005, -006 BA meets balancing obligations o Project Retire BAL-004 o Project Emergency Ops Periodic Review o Project Sys Ops Limit EPR (FAC-010, -011, -014) o Project Alignment of NERC of Glossary Terms and Definitions Used in the Rule of Procedure

NERC Monitored Projects cont’d 5 New NERC Projects: o Project Periodic Review EOP-004, -005, -006, o Project 2010-INT-03 Interpretation Request to clarify accurate computer models to analyze and plan to maintain a load-interchange-generation balance

Review of Recommendations 6 Multiple recommendations were reviewed by the SRS (The SRS working matrix is posted on the June, July and August SRS meetings) Request R15004 ‘Modify WEQ-004 Coordinate Interchange Business Practice Standards, adds a new definition, “Intra-BA Transaction” which is defined in the NAESB Parallel Flow Visualization (PFV) recommendation that has not yet been ratified and is currently being held in abeyance as testing is performed.

Glossary of Definitions 7 Reviewed RMQ terms modified to include the ‘Market Participant’ term

Draft NERC Reliability Standards Development Plan Review 8  The SRS provided comments to the NERC Unofficial Comment Form and submitted these to the NAESB Managing Committee for review.  Highlights of the SRS review:  NAESB will continue to monitor specific NERC standards as they move to completion in 2015 and 2016  Projects , , , noting the effected NAESB Standard Booklet  NAESB will retain the NAESB definitions of Load Serving Entity (LSE), Purchase Serving Entity (PSE), and Interchange Authority (IA).  Projects initiated in 2016  For the standards undergoing periodic review, recommend that NERC prioritize the EPR candidates using the standard changes due to Project of the LSE, PSE and IA

Questions ? 9