1. Business Practices Subcommittee Update
Executive Committee Meeting
October 22, 2013

2. WEQ BPS Update - Meetings
Meetings Since Last Update
September 25, 2013, Conference Call
October 8, (Las Vegas, NV)
October 9, 2013 (Meeting with IDCWG)
Scheduled Meetings
November , 2013, Houston
December 4 - 5, Houston
Additional Assignments made to work on
Recommendation
Recognize Existing Seams Agreements
Treatment of Pseudo Ties 2
Free Template from

3. Draft Standards - Status
Recognize Seams Agreements – Concepts agreed upon
Granularity - Outstanding
Coordination Arrangements/Two-Tier Firm Curtailment - Removed
Pseudo-Ties – Proposed standards being developed
Generator Priority Schedules – Nearly complete
Definitions – Nearly complete 3
Free Template from

4. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
Additional Documents
Whitepaper – nearly complete
Big Picture View
Calculations for Relief Obligations
Updated to include details and examples
IDC User’s Manual – Outside of BPS Scope
How Calculations are Performed
Treatment of Phase Angle Regulators (PARs) 4
Free Template from

5. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
Additional Documents
System Data eXchange (SDX) User’s Manual – Outside of BPS Scope
New Entities Submitting Data
Acknowledgements/Error Processing 5
Free Template from

6. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
Testing
Evaluation Criteria
Data (Input/Output)
Access to Data
Quality of Data
Sufficient Data
Commitment to Testing
NAESB
NERC
Association
Industry
Timeline to testing 6
Free Template from

7. Road Map To Development
September 2013
December 2013
February 2014
April 2014
July 2014
CO’s Development
GTL CO’s Draft
WEQ 008 Assessment
CO 283 Report
Data Submission
Key Assumptions:
WEQ 008 is approved by December 2013
Agreement for funding of the Change Order required is in place by June 2014
IDCWG SC support of the CO’s development by March 2014

8. Road Map To Trial Period 12-18 Month Test
December 2014
(Software Testing)
April 2015
June 2015
(Start month test)
Implement CO’s
Start of Trial Period
Testing Result
Report
Testing
Key Assumptions:
WEQ 008 is approved by December 2013
Agreement for funding of the Change Order required is in place by June 2014
IDCWG SC support of the CO’s development by March 2014

9. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
Timeline Scenarios 9
Free Template from

10. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
Implementation
12-18 month test
Best case 3rd quarter 2015
Delayed until 2nd quarter 2016
Funding
IDC and SDX modifications
Testing Phase
Decision to move to production
NAESB
NERC/Operating Reliability Subcommittee (ORS)
Committed to review and approve test plan
IDC Association
Fund and implement IDC changes to conduct field test 10
Free Template from

11. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
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
Coordinate Interchange
Tagging Intra-BA Point-to-Point (INT-011)
Treatment of Pseudo Ties
Tag Secondary Network Service/Generator Priority Schedules
IRO 5-Year Review Team
Curtailment of Intra-BA Point-to-Point Tags 11
Free Template from

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

13. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
Next Steps
Subcommittee
May post for another round of Informal Comment
Open Issues (proposals being documented/reviewed)
Recognize Existing Seams Agreements
Treatment of Pseudo-ties
Update Recommendation Based on Subcommittee Decision – Ongoing
Update User’s Manuals in Coordination with IDC Working Group – Ongoing
Update Whitepaper – Draft Developed
WEQ Leadership/NAESB Staff – Coordination Issues
NERC - Ongoing
IDC Association – Ongoing 13
Free Template from

14. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
Next Steps
Post Recommendation for Formal Comments
1st Quarter 2014
If not posted for informal comments
2nd Quarter – May even be 3rd Quarter 2014
If posted for informal comments 14
Free Template from

15. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com
Questions/Feedback ? 15
Free Template from