Business Practices Subcommittee Update Executive Committee Meeting April 29, 2014

2 Free Template from 2 NAESB BPS Update Recent Meetings –March 18-19, – St. Petersburg/Duke –April 23-24, 2014 – Little Rock/SPP Upcoming Meetings –May 28-29, 2014 – Carmel/MISO –June 24-25, 2014 – Louisville/LG&E/KU –July 18, 2004 – Conference Call –August 6-7, 2014 – Valley Forge/PJM

3 Free Template from 3 Draft Standards - Status Working on a Draft PFV Recommendation Informal Comments Periods –First Round February 18- March 18, 2013 –Second Round January 8-31, 2014

4 Free Template from 4 Informal Comments Issues Real Time Data Requirements 12 – 18 Months Parallel Test –NAESB/IDC Association Coordination. Recognition of Market Coordinated Flowgates Criteria for determination of Generator Priority Schedules

5 Free Template from 5 Data Submission Requirements The data to be submitted by Reliability Coordinators: –Coordinating with IDC Association – representing RCs

6 Free Template from 6 Upcoming Activities Continue to review and address second round of informal comments

7 Free Template from 7 Additional Documents Whitepaper –Big picture view Meeting Materials IDC User’s Manual – Outside of BPS Scope –How calculations are performed System Data eXchange (SDX) User’s Manual – Outside of BPS Scope –New entities submitting data –Acknowledgements/error processing

8 Free Template from 8 Testing Evaluation Criteria –To be developed by IDCWG Data (Input/Output) –Access to data –Quality of data –Sufficient data Commitment to Testing –NAESB –NERC –Association –Industry Timeline to Testing

9 Free Template from 9 Timeline

10 Free Template from 10 Implementation Month Test –Projected 2 nd -3 rd quarter 2016 Decision to Move to Production –NAESB –NERC/Operating Reliability Subcommittee (ORS) –IDC Association

11 Free Template from 11 Coordination – NERC Commitment to Testing Responsibility to Improve Accuracy of the IDC Tool ORS Role Moving Forward (Monitor Reliability Impact) – Approve Test Criteria Standard Drafting Teams –IRO 5-Year Review Team Curtailment of Intra-BA Point-to-Point Tags

12 Free Template from 12 Coordination – IDC Association Commitment to Testing Responsibility to Improve Accuracy of the IDC Tool Access to Data During Testing IDC Working Group –Updates to User’s Manuals –Response to comments related during informal/formal comments –Review and input into Recommendation and Whitepaper –Testing Plan

13 Free Template from 13 Next Steps Subcommittee –Reviewing responses for second round of Informal Comment –Update Recommendation based on Subcommittee Decision –Work with IDCWG Review and provide input on informal comments, Whitepaper, and Recommendation Update User Manuals –Update Whitepaper – Informal Comments WEQ Leadership/NAESB Staff – Coordination Issues –NERC - Ongoing –IDC Association – Ongoing

14 Free Template from 14 Next Steps (Contd.) Post Recommendation for Formal Comments –3 rd Quarter 2014

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