1. Branden Sudduth Director, Reliability Assessment and Performance Analysis
Planning Coordinator Gap Update
March 25, 2014
PCC Meeting – Salt Lake City

2. Planning Coordinator Gaps Issue
Perceived reliability risk because:
Several entities do not know who their Planning Coordinator is or mistakenly assume another entity is performing this function for them
There is a lack of clarity in Functional Model around who should be a Planning Coordinator
There is no clear definition of a Planning Coordinator Area
There may be reliability functions not being performed

3. Events Creating Urgency
MOD-032 Standard Development
Passed final ballot in December 2013
NERC Board approval February 2014
Requires data providers to submit power flow, dynamics, and short-circuit data to their Planning Coordinator and Transmission Planner

4. Base Case Data Submittal Process (current and general)

5. Base Case Data Submittal Process (MOD-032)

6. Planning Coordination Committee (PCC) Effort
October 2013: PCC asks WECC staff to develop a list mapping Transmission Owners and Generator Owners to Planning Coordinators
December 2013: System Review Work Group survey conducted to identify facilities not in a Planning Coordinator Area
PCs asked to respond to survey
Still collecting and compiling responses

7. Planning Coordinator Preliminary
Survey Results as of

8. “Arizona” Area Unclaimed Buses

9. “Northwest” Area Unclaimed Buses

10. “Montana/WAPA UM” Area Unclaimed Buses

11. “PSCo/WAPA RM” Area Unclaimed Buses

12. “California” Area Unclaimed Buses

13. Rocky Mountain Meeting To Discuss Planning Coordinator Gaps
CAISO, BPA, and Rocky Mountain Region entities present
Topics of discussion:
Interconnection-wide methodology ideal (recommendation)
Need to create a common understanding of PC
Issues around the Transmission Planner function
MOD-032 (Area Coordinator role)
Compliance concerns
Entity-level discussion of topic (BPA, CAISO, Xcel)
Processes for coordination

14. Questions?
Branden Sudduth
WECC