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Agenda
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Holiday Inn on the Bay |
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San Diego, California |
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September 19-21, 2005 |
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casual attire (no ties) |
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| Schedule of Meetings | ||||||||
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Monday, September 19 |
| 2:30 p.m. - | Pre-Meeting Workshop: CREPC 101 |
| 5:00 p.m. | The purpose of this workshop is to provide interested CREPC members with background information on the history, operation, and priority topics of the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation. |
| Background material | |
| Larson presentation | |
| Anderson presentation | |
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Tuesday, September 20 |
| 7:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Convene meeting |
| Introductions | |
| 8:45 a.m. | Report by CREPC Chair |
| Background information | |
| WGA Resolution 05-02 on Regional Electricity Policy Making | |
| Governors' letter to companies operating control areas | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Introduction of proposed CREPC work plan (action will be taken on the work plan at the business meeting) |
| Draft Work Plan Background | |
| Draft CREPC Work Plan | |
| Draft Work Plan Appendices | |
| 9:15 a.m. | Overview of DOE actions to implement electricity-related provisions of the Energy Policy Act |
| · Larry Mansueti/Julia Souder, DOE | |
| Background material | |
| Electricity title summary | |
| List of rulemakings in Electricity title | |
| FERC schedule for implementing Energy Policy Act | |
| Issue 1: Identification of transmission congestion and national interest transmission corridors; designation of energy corridors on federal lands | |
| · Larry Mansueti/Julia Souder, DOE | |
| · Dean Perry, SSG-WI | |
| · Discussion | |
| Background material | |
| Text of sections of EPAct | |
| Western Interconnection Transmission Path Flow Study | |
| Observations on process for evaluating congestion and designating National Interest Corridors - presentation | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | Issue 2: Reliability |
| Formation of Electric Reliability Organization; roles of Regional Reliability Organizations and Regional Advisory Bodies; provisions for deference and delegation; comments on FERC's proposed rules to implement reliability section. | |
| · Louise McCarren, WECC | |
| · Bill Chamberlain, CEC | |
| Background material | |
| Chamberlain presentation | |
| Text of reliability section of EPAct | |
| FERC NOPR on electric reliability organization and standards | |
| WGA Resolution 03-27 Protecting the Reliability of the Western Electric Power System | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Issue 3: Economic dispatch |
| EPAct requires DOE to conduct a study of economic dispatch and FERC to establish joint boards to address economic dispatch. | |
| · Larry Mansueti/Julia Souder, DOE | |
| · Marsh Smith, ID PUC | |
| Background material | |
| Text of economic dispatch sections of EPAct | |
| Letter from DOE | |
| 11:30 a.m. | Identification of activities to share information on EPAct implementation |
| Chamberlain-Messenger presentation | |
| 11:45 a.m. | Lunch - on your own |
| 1:00 p.m. | Changes in the Western Industry |
| · WECC and SSG-WI reports on addressing regional commercial issues | |
| o Louise McCarren, WECC | |
| o Dean Perry, SSG-WI | |
| o Kristi Wallis, SSG-WI/LouAnn Westerfield (ID PUC) | |
| Key issues are: WECC role in managing a database for transmission expansion planning and resource adequacy assessments; WECC role in transmission expansion planning; WECC role in resolving commercial issues; SSG-WI role in market monitoring | |
| Background material | |
| Wallis presentation | |
| Highlights of July WECC Board meeting | |
| Additional information from July WECC Board meeting | |
| 2:15 p.m. | Resource Adequacy - Grace Anderson, CREPC West-wide Resource Assessment Team |
| · WECC 2005 Power Supply Assessment methodology and results | |
| o WECC staff | |
| · Conceptual scope of work for implementing WECC assessments and resource adequacy goals | |
| o Mike Jaske, CREPC West-wide Resource Assessment Team/CEC | |
| Background material | |
| Anderson presentation | |
| Holland presentation | |
| Jaske presentation | |
| 2005 WECC Power Supply Assessment | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:45 p.m. | Other regional developments |
| · Grid West - Kurt Conger | |
| · TIG - Kristi Wallis | |
| · WestConnect - Charlie Reinhold | |
| · SSG-WI transmission planning and expansion - Dean Perry | |
| Background material | |
| BPA Analysis | |
| GridWest Decision Point 2 page | |
| TIG information | |
| Conger presentation | |
| 4:30 p.m. | WREGIS status report |
| · Bob Anderson, Chair of Interim WREGIS Governing Committee | |
| Background material | |
| Anderson presentation | |
| WREGIS update | |
| 4:45 p.m. | CREPC work group reports |
| · Transmission Regulatory Principles Work Group | |
| o Becky Wilson/Carl Linvill | |
| · Other | |
| Background material | |
| Nelson presentation to NARUC (07-25-05) | |
| TREG Draft Report (4-13-05) | |
| WIA Comments (8-26-05) | |
| NWE Comments (9-06-05) | |
| BPA Comments (8-24-05) | |
| PacifiCorp Comments (9-16-05) | |
| 5:30 p.m. | Recess |
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Wednesday, September 21 |
| 7:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | CREPC Business Meeting |
| · Market assessment /monitoring | |
| o Chuck Goldman, LBL | |
| · Discussion and action on proposed Draft CREPC work plan | |
| · Other items | |
| Background material | |
| CREPC business session slides | |
| Presentation used in September 16th web seminar | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Adjourn CREPC meeting |
| 10:45 a.m. | WIEB/CREPC Natural Gas Workshop |
| Jim Fore presentation | |
| Dave Maul presentation | |
| Angela Tanghetti presentation | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Lunch - on your own |
| 2:30 p.m. | Bus picks up participants for Solar Turbines tour and harbor boat tour |