Agenda

Energy Imbalance Market Meeting
(Co-Sponsored by the PUC EIM Group 
and the 
NWPP Members' Market Assessment and Coordination Committee)

Joint Meeting of Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation
and
State-Provincial Steering Committee

The Grove Hotel

Boise, Idaho

 April 8-10, 2013

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 [Be sure to read or download "Priority 1" items.  Priority 2 items are useful for the discussion.  
Priority 3 provides additional background.]
Business Casual attire; no ties

Schedule of Meetings 
 

Monday 
April 8, 2013

Tuesday 
April 9, 2013

Wednesday 
April 10, 2013

1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. 
EIM Meeting

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 
EIM Meeting

10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Joint CREPC / SPSC Meeting

 

8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Joint CREPC / SPSC Meeting

 

 

Grand Ballroom
Monday, April 8
1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

 

 

Energy Imbalance Market

1:00 p.m.

Introductions, meetings goals and agenda
   ·          Travis Kavulla, MT PSC, PUC EIM Group chair
   ·          Pat Reiten, Pacific Power, NWPP MC co-chair
   ·          Bill Drummond, BPA, NWPP MC co-chair
The purpose of the meeting is to understand analyses of the costs/benefits of an EIM

and discuss next steps by companies and regulators.

1:15 p.m.

Overview of work since September PUC EIM meeting
   ·          PUC EIM Group
                    ■   Travis Kavulla, MT PSC, PUC EIM Group chair [pdf] (priority 1)
   ·          NWPP Members' Market Assessment and Coordination Committee
                    ■   Bill Drummond, BPA, Steering Committee co-chair
                    ■   Pat Reiten, Pacific Power, Steering Committee co-chair 

   ·          Southwest Variable Energy Resource Initiative (SVERI)

                    ■   Ed Beck, Tucson Electric Power [pdf] (priority 1)
Background 
     PUC EIM webpage (priority 2)
     NWPP MC Initiative (priority 3)
     SVERI letter (priority 2)
     JEDI-transmittal letter (priority 2)
     JEDI 02-19-13 meeting notes (priority 2) 

1:45 p.m.

Qualitative analysis of EIM reliability benefits [pdf] (priority 1)
   ·          Mason Emnett, FERC
Background 
     FERC staff analysis (priority 1)

2:30 p.m.

Break

2:45 p.m.

EIM benefit analyses
   ·          Results from the analyses by the NWPP MC
          Including costs and qualitative considerations
                    ■   Patrick Damiano
                    ■   Rich Bayless
   ·          California ISO analysis of the benefits of an ISO/PacifiCorp EIM [pdf] (priority 1)
                    ■   Mark Rothleder, CA ISO
                    ■   Stefan Bird, PacifiCorp
   ·          Comparison of NREL, NWPP MC, CAISO / PacifiCorp analyses
                    ■   Michael Milligan, NREL

   ·          Response panel
                    ■   Ron Schellberg, Idaho Power

                    ■   Steve Beuning, Xcel Energy 
                    ■   Mike Florio, California PUC
                    ■   Brian Whalen, NV Energy
                    ■   Ed Beck, Tucson Electric Power
Background
     NWPP MC EIM Benefits Analysis per 4/3/13 stakeholder mtg (priority 2)
     CAISO / PacifiCorp analysis (priority 2)
     NREL final report (priority 2)

4:30 p.m.

Updates from potential EIM market operators
                    ■   Mark Rothleder, California ISO

                    ■   Carl Monroe, Southwest Power Pool
Background
     Revised CAISO cost proposal (priority 1)
     Revised SPP cost proposal (priority 1)
     WECC Comments to Revised SPP cost proposal (priority 1)
     SPP experience with EIS benefits (priority 1)
     Comparison of CAISO and SPP proposals with straw proposal (priority 1)

5:30 p.m.

Recess

 

 

Grand Ballroom
Tuesday, April 9
8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

 

7:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m.

NWPP MC Enhanced Market/Operational Tools (EMT) [pdf] (priority 1)
                    ■   Patrick Damiano, Columbia Grid
                    ■   Scott Kinney, Avista
Background
     NWPP MC EMT per 4/3/13 stakeholder meeting (priority 2)
     EMT overview per 12/1/12 (priority 2)

8:30 a.m.

Report on PacifiCorp/California ISO MOU  [pdf] | [pdf] (priority 1)
                    ■   Stefan Bird, PacifiCorp
                    ■   Karen Edson, California ISO
Background
     CAISO / PacifiCorp EIM page (priority 1)
     Oregon PUC letter to CAISO Board of Governors (priority 1)

9:15 a.m.

Open discussion of future activities by regulators, companies, and stakeholders

10:00 a.m.

Adjourn EIM meeting

Joint CREPC/SPSC meeting

10:30 a.m.

Introductions, meetings goals and agenda
   ·          John Savage, Chairman

10:35 a.m.

Developments at FERC

   ·          Chairman Jon Wellinghoff
   ·          Commissioner John Norris

Developments at DOE
   ·          Jon Worthington/Larry Mansueti

11:15 a.m.

Proposed bifurcation at WECC
Status and benefits of bifurcation
   ·          Jim Shetler, WECC Governance & Nominating Committee chair 
          Committee chair [pdf] (priority 1)
Opportunities for Class 5 participation [pdf]  (priority 1) 
   ·          Doug Larson, WIEB staff
Background
     The WECC strategic planning initiative webpage (priority 3)
          February Newsletter | March Newsletter
     WECC request for Declaratory Order on Section 215 funding (priority 3)
Discussion of key issues in WECC bifurcation
   ·          Funding functions
   ·          Governance of new organizations
   ·          Other issues

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 p.m.

The future of transmission planning in the West
   ·          WECC Transmission Planning - Brad Nickell and Keegan Moyer, WECC [pdf]  TBA
     o Results from SPSC long-term study cases and SPSG scenarios
     o Preview of 2013 Interconnection-wide Transmission Plan
   ·          Western Interconnection Order 1000 Planning Regions' Interregional
          Coordination Team (ICT) work on interregional planning and its relationship
           to WECC interconnection-wide planning [pdf] (priority 1) TBA
     o California ISO

                    ■   Neil Millar and Gary DeShazo
     o WestConnect
                    ■   Susan Henderson - Xcel
                    ■   Charlie Reinhold - WestConnect Project Manager
     o Northern Tier Transmission Group
                    ■   Sharon Helms - NTTG Project Manager
                    ■   Dave Angell - Idaho Power
     o ColumbiaGrid
                    ■   Kristi Wallis, ColumbiaGrid Coordinator
                    ■   John Phillips, Puget Sound Energy
   ·          Town Hall Meeting Discussion: Where do we go from here?
                    ■   Rebecca Wagner, NV PUC, facilitator
     o What should the relationship be between WECC and the SPGs post-Order 1000?

     o Where does the real value lie?
                            »  Interconnection-wide? Regional plans?
                                A proper interdependence between both?
                            »  Do we need interconnection-wide transmission planning? 
                            »  Do we need interconnection-wide transmission plans?
     o What, if any, role does interconnection-wide planning have in future
                  Regional planning?
     o What analytical capabilities are needed in the Western Interconnection?
Background
     Common Interregional Tariff Language (priority 1)
     TEPPC report to WECC Board, March 14, 2013 (priority 1)

3:30 p.m.

Break

3:45 p.m.

Advanced Transmission Technologies
   ·          Baseline information on use of advanced transmission equipment 
                    ■   Trevor Curry, Black & Veatch [pdf] TBA
   ·          Baseline information on use of real-time technologies 
                    ■   Joe Eto, LBNL / Eric Whitley and Alan Isemonger, GridSME [pdf]
   ·          DOE Grid Tech Team
                    ■   Anjan Bose, DOE
   ·          Response panel
                    ■   Vicki VanZandt, consultant
                    ■   Jeff Hein, Xcel Energy and WestConnect
                    ■   Charlie Reinhold, WestConnect
                    ■   Rich Bayless, NTTG
                    ■   Jeff Miller, ColumbiaGrid
   ·          Recommended next steps from project Steering Committee 
   ·          Discussion of proposed next steps and decision by SPSC
Background
     Black & Veatch draft paper (priority 1)
     Action Plan for Addressing the Electricity System (priority 1)
     Transmission Technology Forum Steering committee members (priority 3)

5:30 p.m.

Recess

 

 

Grand Ballroom
Wednesday, April 10
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

 

7:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m.

Dynamic transfers project by the Regulatory Assistance Project [pdf] (priority 1) 
   ·          Project overview
                    ■   Carl Linvill, Regulatory Assistance Project 
   ·          Presentation of project results
                    ■   Jim McIntosh and Kyle Hoffman, ZGlobal, Inc.
   ·          Discussion of any future work needed on dynamic transfers
SPSC historical flow/schedule/ATC internet tool (Grid Tracker)
   ·          Presentation of tool and examples of analyses
                    ■   Suzanne Liou, Atkins [pdf] (priority 1) 
                    ■   Dean Perry (by phone)
Wind/Solar integration charges
                    ■   Michael Milligan, NREL [pdf] (priority 1) 
Background
     A Review of Variable Generation Integration Charges (priority 2) 
     Cost Causation and Integration Cost Analysis for Variable Generation (priority 2) 

9:45 a.m.

Break

10:00 a.m.

SPSC budget review, funds transfer, new consulting projects
                    ■   Doug Larson, WIEB staff [pdf]
Background
     Staff memo (priority 1)

10:30 a.m.

Decision on funding for the SPSC Gas-Electric Regional Assessment RFP
   ·          Summary of proposal
                    ■   Alaine Ginocchio, WIEB staff [pdf] (priority 1) 
   ·          Comments by SPSC Western Gas-Electric Regional Assessment Task Force
              representatives
                    ■   Melissa Jones, California Energy Commission
                    ■   Clint Kalich, Avista (via webinar) 
   ·          SPSC action
Background
     RFP scope of work (priority 1) 
     SPSC's Western Gas-Electric Task Force website (priority 3)
     Staff memo on Task Force activities (priority 2)
     April 3 webinar - gas-electric RFP scope of work - slides | recording (priority 2)

11:00 a.m.

New utility model for a low load growth / high DG future
   ·          Report on changing trends and new research
                    ■   Chuck Goldman - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [pdf]
   ·          Response panel
                    ■   Commissioner Mike Florio, CA PUC
                    ■   Ron Lehr, Western Grid Group
                    ■   Carl Linvill, Regulatory Assistance Project
                    ■   Ed Burgess, Kris Mayes Law Firm
   ·          Decision on next steps for CREPC/SPSC
Background
     EEI report.  Disruptive Challenges:  Financial Implications to a Changing
          Retail Electric Business.  January 2013
     Peter Fox Penner presentation.  The Future of Utilities:  Business Models
          and Strategy. March 2012
     Moreland Commission Interim Report. Utility Storm Preparation and
          Response. January 2013
     The Math Does Not Lie: Factoring the Future of the Electric Power Industry
          Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions, Oct 2012
     Lehr/Binz draft paper on New Utility Business Models.  March 2013

1:00 p.m.

Adjourn