Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation


1:00 p.m.	Joint WIEB/CREPC Workshop on Western Natural Gas Adequacy Study
	In April, the WIEB Board of Directors agreed to collaborate with the California Energy Commission in an analysis of the adequacy of the natural gas infrastructure in the West to support gas-fired electric generating plants. This is one element of the analysis of resource adequacy requested by Western Governors that is not being addressed by WECC or CREPC’s West-Wide Resource Assessment Team. Details of the modeling effort will be presented and important issues for further analysis will be identified.
	· Dave Maul, California Energy Commission

	Background material
	> WIEB natural gas team web page

3:00 p.m.	Break

5:00 p.m.	Adjourn workshop

6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.	Reception hosted by Powerex - Point Grey Room


7:30 a.m.	Continental breakfast

8:30 a.m.	Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation

	Report by the Chair
	· Enhanced regional electricity function
	> Options Paper on Financing an Enhanced Electricity Function
	> Summary of Actions at March CREPC Meeting
	Report by WIEB
	· Implementation of WGA Clean and Diversified Energy Resolution
	> Resolution
	> Larson slide
	Reports on recent developments
	· CREPC Work Groups
	o West-wide Resource Assessment Team, Grace Anderson
	> Anderson presentation
	> CREPC letter to WECC requesting load forecast data
	> WECC letter to WECC membership
	o Market Monitoring, Lou Ann Westerfield
	o Transmission Planning and Expansion, Steve Ellenbecker
	o Reliability and WECC, Bill Chamberlain > Chamberlain presentation > Workshop on WECC Governance and Overall Effectiveness > Criteria for Evaluations and Options for Study - Section 4.9 Review of WECC Effectiveness
	· WREGIS update, Rasa Keanini (CEC)
	> Keanini presentation
	>WREGIS webpage

9:45 a.m.	Department of Energy
	· Larry Mansueti
	>Mansueti presentation

10:00 a.m.	Break

10:15 a.m.	Treatment of gas price risk in LSE resource plans
	· Chuck Goldman, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
	> Goldman presentation


	Background material
	> Status of IRP's

11:00 a.m.	Performance of natural gas markets
	· George Godding, FERC's Office of Market Oversight and Investigations
	> Godding presentation

11:45 p.m.	Lunch - on your own

1:00 p.m.	Formation of a Western Interconnection market monitor
	· Moderator: Lou Ann Westerfield (ID PUC)
	o Presentation of SSG-WI work, Kristi Wallace (SSG-WI)
	o FERC developments – FERC staff
	o Southwest utility actions - Charlie Reinhold
	o Cost and funding of a West-wide market monitor
	o Next steps

	Background material
	> SSG-WI market monitoring proposal
	> SSG-WI proposal background information
	> Tucson Electric market monitoring proposal
	> October 12, 2004 FERC Order on Tucson Electric proposal
	> FERC OMOI/six state "statement of shared understanding and purpose" (2003)

2:30 p.m.	Break

2:45 p.m.	State/Provincial roundtable on recent developments
	(Bring 55 copies of any handouts)
	> Jaske presentation

5:00 p.m.	Recess


7:30 a.m.	Continental breakfast

8:30 a.m.	Electricity Resource Adequacy and Assessment
	· Western resource adequacy: conceptual approach and elements
	o Grace Anderson, Wally Gibson, Mike Jaske (WRAT)
	> WRAT presentation
	· Assessment as the foundation of adequacy
	o Chuck Goldman/Andrew Mingst, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
	> Assessment presentation

	Background material
	> Western interconnection resource adequacy - conceptual approach and elements

	> Resource assessment: A foundation for resource adequacy, LBL presentation
	> WRAT comments on WECC power supply assessment
	> Resource assessment and adequacy - next steps adopted by CREPC in March

10:00 a.m.	Break

10:15 a.m.	Recent transmission planning developments
	· Completion of RMATS Phase I
	o Briefing on Phase I report - Steve Ellenbecker (WY)
	> Ellenbecker presentation
	o Multi-state transmission pricing principles - Constance White (UT PSC)
	· SSG-WI modeling of a "realistic" interconnection-wide transmission scenario - Dean Perry, SSG-WI
	> Perry presentation
	· Other
	o SWAT - Charlie Reinhold, West Connect
	> Reinhold presentation
	o NTAC - Chris Reese, PSE

	Background material
	> RMATS phase I presentation
	> RMATS phase I report
	> Southwest area transmission
	> Northwest transmission assessment committee
	> Southwest transmission expansion plan



11:00 a.m.	Business meeting
	· Adoption of a recommendation to Western Governors on funding an enhanced regional electricity function
	· Proposed action to better link LSE integrated resource plans with regional transmission planning and resource adequacy assessments
	· Proposed RMATS transmission pricing principles work group
	· Continued support for development of western resource adequacy proposals and improvements in WECC resource assessments
	· Review of CREPC appointments



	Background material
	> Presentation on financing an enhanced State/Provincial regional electricity function
	> Options paper on financing an enhanced electricity function
	> Report to western governors on an enhanced regional electricity function in the western interconnection, June 2004
	> Attachment to October 5 memo from CREPC chair
	> Draft staff paper on linking IRPs, transmission planning and resource adequacy assessment
	> Current CREPC appointments

12:30 p.m.	Adjourn

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	CREPC Public Meeting on Recommendations for an Enhanced Regional Electricity Function
	· Briefing on proposal and directions from Western Governors
	o Marsha Smith, CREPC Chair
	· Questions and comments

	Background material
	> Options paper on financing an enhanced electricity function
	> Report to western governors on an enhanced regional electricity function in the western interconnection, June 2004


3:30 p.m.	Workshop on Resource Assessment and Adequacy: Forging an Effective Partnership

	Seminar presentation by Anderson
	Seminar presentation by Johannis

	Convene/Introductions
	Why are we here?
	· State perspective
	o Grace Anderson (WRAT)
	· WECC perspective
	o Bob Dintleman (WECC)
	Overview of agenda

	Western Resource Adequacy
	· Background
	· Four conceptual approaches
	· Voluntary targets approach
	· Elements of a strawman proposal

	The Collaborative Process Initiated by WECC PCC
	Development of resource adequacy criteria by the WECC Resource Adequacy Work Group
	· Mary Johannis (BPA)

	Assessment Provides the Foundation for any RA Approach
	Understanding the resource assessment results
	· Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

	Forging an Effective Workable Region/State Partnership
	Discussion by participants
	· Marsha Smith (CREPC) and Louise McCarren (WECC)
	Identification of next steps
	· Bob Dintleman (WECC) and Grace Anderson (WRAT)

6:00 p.m.	Adjourn
	Informal continuing discussions in hotel lounge