Electronic Scheduling Work Group Report Raymond R. Vojdani, P. E. Interchange Scheduling and Accounting Subcommittee Meeting Salt Lake City, UT August 2015

ESWG August 2015 Report The Work Group Has Been In a Dormant Position Most of Previous Efforts Have Been Dedicated to Improving WIT Functionality and Usability Waiting For Transition of WIT Ownership From WECC to Peak RC Creation of WIT Focus Group By Peak RC Completed The WIT Checkout Box Issue

ESWG August 2015 Report The ESWG Submitted A SAR (July 2014) to Modify INT-021-WECC-CRT-1.3 The WSC Approved the SAR and Moved to Create a Drafting Team The Drafting Team Worked on Changes and Revised Criteria (after 5 rounds of comments) The Revised Regional Criteria Was Balloted and Approved In August 2015 It Is Expected WECC Board Approval Next Month Effective Date April 1, 2016

ESWG August 2015 Report Some of the Outstanding Issues: Issue 71378 – Checkout for partial hour schedule – In Dev System When partial hours are checked the hour isn’t checked Issue 71379 – OATI Needs Further Guidance Add checked for missing hours when ATF daily total is checked Transition ATF Check When There Is No Change to NSI Issue 71375 – Add User Check Config Option Issue 71376 – Separate of Daily and Hourly Checkout (Not Relevant Any Longer) The issues in green are in Enhancement Queue

ESWG August 2015 Report Issue 83212 – Ability to Download Partial Hour NSI (15-Minutes) Via EIDE Discussion Necessity Complexity Cost

ESWG August 2015 Report Where We Should Go From Here? Send a Survey to BA Operators and Ask for Improvement to WIT The Peak RC to Finalize The Enhancement Queue Items and Work With OATI to Implement The Changes

Questions? cwilliams@wecc.biz Send Your WIT Related Wishes/Issues to Raymond Vojdani at: avojdani@wapa.gov, or, Craig Williams at: cwilliams@wecc.biz