1. Andy Meyers ISAS Chair Operating Committee Meeting October 2015
ISAS Report
Andy Meyers
ISAS Chair
Operating Committee Meeting
October 2015
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2. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Agenda
ISAS Charter
ISAS Leadership
Work Group Updates
After-the-Fact Work Group
Interchange Work Group
Electronic Scheduling Work Group
Peak’s Reliability Messaging Tool (RMT)
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3. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
ISAS Charter
Charter had not been reviewed in two years.
Streamlined the purpose statement
The purpose of the ISAS is to develop scheduling, tagging, and accounting practices and procedures among participants in the Western Interconnection.
Cleaned up the approval process by OC for approving ISAS leadership
Adjusted language to ensure meetings are held and scheduled in accordance with WECC meeting policy, and allowing for the meetings to be held either in person or via webinar.
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4. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
ISAS Leadership
Charles “Bud” Freeman, Seattle City Light - Chair
Raymond Vojdani, Western Area Power Administration – Vice Chair
Beginning their respective two year terms at the 2016 January ISAS meeting.
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5. After-the-Fact Work Group
ATF WG presented on an issue which she was consulted on since last meeting.
Issue involved submittal of WIT schedule change request form & generation imbalance
Appendix of tagging guidelines prohibits use of ATF etags to avoid generation imbalance
Chair presented statistics and reasons for WIT schedule change requests
ISAS members surprised by reasons
Concern about abuse of ATF/WIT schedule change requests
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6. Interchange Work Group
Preschedule Calendar Guideline
Guideline had not been reviewed in 5 years
Discussion centered on whether or not the guideline still provides some alignment with the natural gas scheduling calendar
Additional discussion on the framework provided for the scheduling of the Thanksgiving Day and Christmas holidays
Members feel that the guideline is appropriate and working well and cautioned against making changes to it.
IWG agreed to review the alignment between gas and electricity scheduling
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7. Interchange Work Group
Regional Criteria INT-021 (WECC-0108)
Approved in recent ballot pool
Awaiting Board Approval
IWG Chair noted that requirement WR2 provided timelines for confirming NSI with each adjacent balancing authority;
timelines did not stipulate a requirement to check NSI at the end of the preschedule day
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8. Interchange Work Group
WIT Interchange Authority Backup (WIAB)
IWG chair currently seeking volunteers for table top exercise
Contact IWG Chair Danielle Johnson
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9. Electronic Scheduling Work Group
Met to discuss current WIT Wish List
ESWG is planning to conduct a survey of BA operators to ask for any additional improvements that would be beneficial to WIT
Working collaboratively with Peak as Peak works to stand up WIT User group
Future of ESWG will be evaluated after WIT User Group is established.
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10. Reliability Messaging Tool (RMT)
RMT is scheduled to replace WECCNet – likely in Q1 of 2106
Development is complete and quality testing & beta testing is underway.
RMT continue the capabilities that WECCNet has currently and adds additional capabilities.
ISAS has been interested as WECCNet is an important communication tool
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11. Western Electricity Coordinating Council
Questions
Andy Meyers – Bonneville Power Administration
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