Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation

Agenda
Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation

Horton Grand Hotel

San Diego, California

September 27-29, 2006

Schedule of Meetings

Wednesday September 27, 2006	Thursday September 28, 2006	Friday September 29, 2006
Market Monitoring Workshop 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	CREPC meeting 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	CREPC meeting 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon


1:00 p.m.	*Workshop: A Regional Approach to Market Monitoring in the West*
	LouAnn Westerfield, ID PUC - moderator

	Methods of assessing the Western power market
	· Chuck Goldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	· Ed Kahn/Matthew Barmack, Analysis Group

	Response
	· Charlie Whitmore/Steve Michaels, FERC Office of Enforcement
	[ FERC part 1 \| FERC part 2 \| FERC part 3]

	Questions for FERC
	1. Does FERC use an econometric modeling approach (like that tested by LBNL in its scoping study)
	to identify possible market power problems?
	2. In addition to looking for looking for outliers when identifying possible market power problems,
	what other market monitoring functions does FERC perform?
	3. What type of scrutiny does FERC perform on a daily basis?
	4. How does FERC monitor markets outside RTOs?
	5. What, if any, additional information would be valuable in monitoring markets outside of RTOs?

	Background information
	Regional Approach to Market Monitoring in the West [Goldman present]

5:00 p.m.	Adjourn workshop


7:00 a.m.	Continental breakfast

8:00 a.m.	WECC Reliability Center Strategic Initiative
	· John Stout, WECC Board of Directors [Stout present]

	Background information
	July 2006 Reliability Center Strategic Initiative
	summary \| white paper

	Wind Integration Challenges in the Western Interconnection

9:00 a.m.	CDEAC wind recommendations

	Policy recommendations
	o Thomas Carr, WIEB [Carr present]
	Supply curves and wind integration studies
	o Brian Parsons, NREL [Parsons present]

9:30 a.m.	Break

9:45 a.m.	Wind costs and wind integration

	Western experience and initiatives
	· Responses to RFPs
	o Michael Jacobs, AWEA [Jacobs present]
	· Control area size and integration
	o NWE - John Leland [Leland present]
	o California ISO - David Hawkins [Hawkins present]
	o Xcel - Jim Hill [Hill present]
	o BPA/NWPCC study - Elliot Mainzer [Mainzer present]
	o Consultant - Bob Anderson [Anderson present]

	Background information
	Wind Integration 101
	Utility Wind Integration State of the Art
	Winds of Change
	Making Connections
	CDEAC Wind Task Force Report
	CA ISO white paper: Proposal to Remove Barriers to Efficient Transmission
	Investment

Noon	Business meeting
	· CREPC appointments
	· Transmission Regulatory Principles Work Group (TREG)
	· 2007 work plan
	· CREPC resolution on WECC Exhibit B

1:00 p.m.	Adjourn


7:30 a.m.	Continental breakfast

8:30 a.m.	CREPC Meeting

	Chairman’s report and updates - John Savage, OR PUC [Savage present]
	· CREPC actions since April
	· WIRAB activities

	Background information
	WIEB/CREPC comments on FERC Section 1221 NOPR
	CREPC comments on FERC Order 888 NOPR
	Supplemental CREPC comments on DOE's NOI on Consideration for Transmission
	Congestion Study and Designation of National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors
	WIRAB advice to FERC on reliability standards
	WIRAB home page

9:00 a.m.	FERC-Western Interconnection collaboration
	· Suedeen Kelly, FERC Commissioner
	Mary Elizabeth Tighe, Advisor to Commissioner Wellinghoff
	Jeff Wright, Office of Energy Projects, FERC
	[Potential discussion items: Order 888; Section 1221 rules; reliability standards; use of joint
	boards. Depending on ex parte constraints, this discussion could be expanded to delve into
	elements in these rulemakings, such as the CREPC comments on the 888 NOPR, linkage
	between FERC’s pre-application rules and state transmission siting processes, and how to
	determine if a project is within a DOE-designated National Interest Electric Transmission
	Corridor.]

	Response
	· 1221 Rules - Laurie Woodall, Arizona Line Siting Committee/Adam Bless, Oregon DOE
	· Order 888 Reform - Doug Larson, WIEB [Larson present]

10:15 a.m.	Break

10:30 a.m.	DOE actions to implement Sections 1221 and 368
	· Mark Whitenton/Julia Souder/Poonum Agrawal, Department of Energy
	[Souder present] \| [Agrawal present]

	Response
	· Larry Chaset, CA PUC

11:30 a.m.	Lunch - everyone on their own

1:00 p.m.	Western Governors' Clean and Diversified Energy Initiative
	· Overview - Bill Keese, CDEAC co-chair
	· Recommendations and implementation with a focus on those involving state agency action
	o Efficiency
	§ CDEAC recommendations – Rich Halvey, WGA
	§ Energy Efficiency in Western Utility Resource Plans: Implications for Regional
	Assessments and Initiatives
	· Chuck Goldman/Nicole Hopper, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	[ Goldman-Hopper present]
	o Solar, biomass, geothermal
	§ CDEAC recommendations– Rich Halvey, WGA
	o Advanced coal
	§ CDEAC recommendations – Bill Keese
	§ Report on WA, OR, CA PUC IGCC workshop - Commissioner Lee Beyer, OR PUC
	[Keese present] \| [Halvey present]

	Background information
	CDEAC report to Western Governors, June 2006
	CDEAC task force reports
	Energy Efficiency in Western Utility Resource Plans: Impacts on Regional Resource
	Assessment and Support for WGA Policies, Report \| Spreadsheet August 2006

3:00 p.m.	Break

3:15 p.m.	WECC report - Mark Maher, WECC COO
	· Implementation of Section 215 (reliability standards) and experience with RMS standards
	implementation
	· Transmission expansion planning
	[ Maher on Section 215 \| Maher on TransExPlan \| Maher on RMS ]

	Response
	o Wally Gibson, NWPCC

	· WECC Power Supply Assessment - Stan Holland, WECC [Holland present]

	Response
	o CREPC Western Resource Adequacy Team

	Background information
	WECC 2006 Power Supply Assessment, May 9, 2006

5:00 p.m.	Recess