1. Unscheduled Flow Administrative Subcommittee Report
Pete Heiman
March 22, 2016
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2. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Meetings
UFAS last met on January 19-20, 2016 in Salt Lake City.
The next meeting is scheduled for May 17-18, in Salt Lake City.
Please refer to the UFAS page of the WECC website for further information about scheduled meetings.
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3. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Membership
Igor Kormaz of Tri-State has been selected by WECC OC Device Operator members as the third representative on UFAS for the Device Operators.
The WECC OC Chair appointed Julius Fields of Bonneville Power Administration and Chris Nebrigich of Idaho Power Company to the At-Large positions.
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4. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Lifting 1995 Caps
On March 11, 2016 FERC accepted the amended Plan and agreed with the effective date of January 1, 2016 for calculation of Qualified Device compensation with the Caps removed.
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5. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Lifting 1995 Caps
The FERC acceptance document for Docket ER and ER can be found at the following link:
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6. New Cost Allocation Methodology
As requested by the OC at our last meeting, USFTF and UFAS explored additional options regarding the cost allocation methodology.
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7. New Cost Allocation Methodology
UFAS believes that the latest proposal to use a Balancing Authority’s Net Actual Interchange (NAI) continues to be the best solution for the following reasons:
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8. New Cost Allocation Methodology
Net Actual Interchange data excludes generation used to serve native load
Net Actual Interchange captures dynamic and pseudo-tied resources for each BA
The new method uses the same year for COPS costs and NAI data, greatly simplifying the calculations
This method maintains the correlation between COPS use and Interchange
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9. New Cost Allocation Methodology
By modifying the proposal from the last OC meeting to use the hourly absolute value of a BAs NAI for each month, UFAS believes this addresses the concern that netting NAI would not accurately reflect true interconnection use
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10. New Cost Allocation Methodology
Comparison of the data utilizing the absolute hourly NAI values sorted by month rather than absolute monthly NAI values produced the following:
The total amount of NAI (in MW) utilizing absolute hourly values increased to 277,667,320 from 241,049,816 (an increase of 15%)
The top 12 BAs carry 80% of the costs (up slightly from the previous method)
The average cost per MW was reduced from 1.72 to 1.5 cents (as a result of the increase in total NAI)
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11. New Cost Allocation Methodology
The data for this latest proposal is available on the WECC website under the Unscheduled Flow Administrative Subcommittee by selecting the Supporting Documents link.
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12. New Cost Allocation Methodology
UFAS plans to set up a webinar for discussion of the proposal in the coming months after BAs and other interested entities have been afforded an opportunity to review the latest data.
Again, UFAS believes this is the fairest proposal thus far presented after years of exploration and would appreciate its serious consideration by the committee members.
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13. New Cost Allocation Methodology
Questions?
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UFAS Charter
UFAS is in the process of reviewing their charter and will present it to the OC for approval once changes have been agreed upon by the subcommittee.
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Other UFAS Activities
UFAS continues to participate in and coordinate with Peak Reliability’s Enhance Curtailment Calculator (WebIntegrity) project.
PEAK is anticipating integration of the webSAS program into the ECC late 2016 after parallel testing is complete. WebSAS functionality should not be impacted by the integration and no changes in how events are handled (from present) are expected.
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16. Path and Device Updates
PacifiCorp continues to coordinate with UFAS on the documentation to support qualification of the new PST at Pinto.
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17. Path and Device Updates
UFAS is recommending to the WECC OC the deletion of Path 22 (Southwest of Four Corners) and Path 23 (Four Corners 345/500) as Qualified Transfer Paths.
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18. Path and Device Updates
The Unscheduled Flow Mitigation Policy states:
If the following conditions are maintained for 36 consecutive months, the UFAS shall make a determination as to whether the WECC system configuration has been altered sufficiently so that USF Schedule reductions on the Qualified Transfer Path would no longer be expected:
There have been no Schedule reductions; and
The actual flow across a Qualified Transfer Path has not exceeded 97 percent of the SOL.
An affirmative finding of the UFAS and approval by the WECC OC will be required to delete a Qualified Transfer Path.
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19. Path and Device Updates
Although UFAS could not identify a particular WECC system configuration change accounting for these Paths lack of Unscheduled Flow, the Paths have not called on assistance for at least the last 36 months and UFAS does not see any changes in system configuration in the foreseeable future that would warrant maintaining these Paths in the program.
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20. Request to OC
Resolved, That the Western Electricity Coordinating Council Operating Committee (OC) hereby approves the deletion of Path 22 (Southwest of Four Corners) and Path23 (Four Corners 345/500) as Qualified Transfer Paths.

21. Plan Year 22 Operating Statistics
Activity as of March 2016:
770 hours of COPS
231 hours of tag curtailments.
Activity for 2014:
2,264 hours of COPS
986 hours of tag curtailments
COPS hours continue to run at very low levels compared to previous years.
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