Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation

Schedule of Meetings

Tuesday April 3, 2007	Wednesday April 4, 2007	Thursday April 5, 2007
WIEB Board Meeting 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. - Joint WIEB/WIRAB dinner (Maggiano's)	WIRAB meeting 8:00 a.m. - 12 noon CREPC meeting 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	CREPC meeting 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.


7:00 a.m.	Continental breakfast

8:00 a.m.	Implementation of WREGIS
	· WREGIS Administrator, Phil Lusk [presentation]

	Background information
	New launch of WREGIS website - 03-19-07

8:30 a.m.	Greenhouse gases and Western LSE resource plans
	· Ryan Wiser/Galen Barbose - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [presentation]

9:45 a.m.	Overview of state/federal proposals to limit carbon emissions in power generation
	· Five-western state proposal
	· Kevin Moran, WGA Washington Office Director - U.S. federal proposal [presentation]
	· Canadian actions

	Background information
	Five state cap and trade initiative - press release and initiative
	Oregon "median" cap-and-trade proposal
	Summary of U.S. Senate climate change legislation
	EIA analysis of a cap and trade system

10:15 a.m.	Calculating the carbon content of power on the grid
	· Phil Carver, OR DOE

	Background Information
	A proposed process for consistent state, provincial, and tribal estimates of utilities'
	electric CO2 emissions
	February 26, 2007 WRAP joint letter

10:30 a.m.	Break

10:45 a.m.	What are we learning from wind integration studies and future efforts
	(Northwest, e.g. BPA/NWPPC study; Idaho Power, Avista; Southwest, e.g., NREL-led SW
	study, APS, Xcel; California)
	· National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Brian Parsons (NREL) [presentation]
	· Discussion

12:00 p.m.	Business meeting
	· WECC Activities
	o Compliance hearing body - Bill Chamberlain - CEC [presentation]
	o New WECC regulatory committee - Lori Zaozirny (BCUC)
	o Candidates for Class 5 - Bill Chamberlain - CEC
	o Class 5 issues - Bill Chamberlain - CEC
	· Discussion of potential future CREPC activities
	o Potential webinars on: the status of advanced coal technology development/
	deployment; the feasibility of wind/coal hybrid technologies; etc.
	o Usefulness of WECC webinars on transmission expansion plans
	o How to expand state/provincial participation in regional transmission planning
	o How to better link LSE resource plans and regional transmission planning
	o FERC - Western state/provincial collaboration of monitoring of western power markets
	o Other suggestions
	· Other business

	Background information
	CREPC appointments

1:00 p.m.	Adjourn CREPC meeting

1:15 p.m.	Potential for CREPC members to discuss with National Renewable Energy Laboratory
	elements of specific western wind integration studies


1:00 p.m.	Introductions
	Report of the Chairman

	Background information
	2007-08 CREPC work plan
	CREPC positions since September meeting
	· CREPC supports WECC's request for rehearing to FERC on funding Western Reliability
	Centers 12-20-06)
	· Comments of CREPC on Nat'l Electric Transmission Congestion Study (10-17-06)
	· Letter from CREPC to FERC Commissioners regarding funding of reliability
	centers (10-06-06)
	· CREPC resolution on WECC Exhibit B (10-03-06)

1:15 p.m.	Key western issues in implementation of mandatory reliability standards
	· NERC implementation of standards - Rick Sergel, NERC CEO
	· WIRAB priorities - John Savage, OR PUC, WIRAB Chair [presentation]
	o Suggested priority issues from CREPC members

	Background information
	Past WIRAB advice to FERC and NERC

	A dialogue on FERC policies and Western energy goals

	· Order 890 and FERC 2007 priorities
	■ John Moot, FERC General Counsel
	■ Shelton Cannon, Director, FERC Office of Energy Markets & Reliability
	· Standards of Conduct
	■ Dick Byers, WA UTC [presentation]

	Background information
	Washington, Oregon, Idaho comments on standards of conduct NOPR
	FERC Order 890 fact sheet
	FERC Summary Order 890 compliances deadlines
	FERC press release on standards of conduct NOPR

2:30 p.m.	DOE Implementation of Section 1221(h) and Section 368
	■ Larry Mansueti, DOE
	■ Darby Collins, DOE

	Background information
	DOE information on 1221(h)
	DOE Section 1221 implementation web page
	DOE Section 368 implementation web page

3:00 p.m.	Break

3:15 p.m.	Transmission expansion
	· Overview of expansion proposals - Doug Larson/Thomas Carr, WIEB [presentation]
	o High Plains Express, the newest mega project proposal
	■ Tom Green, Xcel [presentation]

	Background information
	Map of transmission proposals
	High Plains Express fact sheet
	High Plains Express presentation

	· Compliance with planning requirements of Order 890
	o Overview - Rob Kondziolka (SRP), WestConnect [presentation]
	o WECC activities - Steve Walton (WECC)
	o Columbia Grid - Jon Kaake [presentation]
	o Northern Tier Transmission Group - Marsha Smith (ID PUC) [presentation]

	Background information
	Excerpt of planning requirements in Order 890
	NTTG letter to WECC

	· WECC expansion planning - Steve Walton (WECC) [presentation]
	o Comment panel - Wally Gibson (NWPCC), Grace Anderson (CEC) [presentation]

	Background information
	TEPPC Update
	TEPPC Charter
	TEPPC Member List
	TEPPC Work Plan 2007-2008 (Text)

	Study of control area consolidation and elimination of pancaking
	o WestConnect - Charlie Reinhold [presentation] [handout]

5:00 p.m.	Recess