1. Creating Profiles Enoch Davies Staff Engineer W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

2. Profiles What is a Profile File? – Rating Profile – Bus Load and Generation Profile – Device Control Profile – Net Scheduled Interchange (NSI) By Area only Naming Convention – (Area Number)_(Company Name Acronym)_(WECC Convention i.e.23HS)_(Description) 2 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

3. Creating Profiles Profiles must be created from a solved case – Case also includes all projects for final case When using MOD FileBuilder to create a profile there are options – Easiest to select All from “Profile Type” list – Type of profile will be appended to the end of file name Profiles are essentially capturing the solution for the case it is created from 3 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

4. Ratings Profile When creating ratings profile – Select appropriate seasons represented by each rating – Selection name is editable and must be consistent for a case 16_Summer, 16_Winter, … All seasonal ratings should eventually be available for all elements represented in the cases 4 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

5. Uploading and Approval of Profiles Similar to projects – Must be applied to a base profile WECC Staff will upload a blank base profile – Before profiles are able to be applied to a case they must be accepted Essentially the same approval process as for projects 5 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL

6. Tasks Create all profiles(BLG, DevC, Ratings, NSI) for the 2016 Light Winter Case – Rating names need to be consistent across all profiles so we can build the case Upload to the BCCS and apply to “16lw1a BCCS Testing Master (profile type)” base profile 6 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL