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Agenda |
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Hyatt Regency (Convention Center) |
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Mineral Hall |
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Denver, Colorado |
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April 4, 2007 |
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| Schedule of Meetings | ||||||
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Tuesday, April 3 |
| 6:30 p.m. | Joint WIRAB/WIEB Board of Directors Dinner (Maggiano's) |
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Wednesday, April 4 |
| 7:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 8:00 a.m. | Introductions |
| WIRAB background and key issues - WIRAB Chairman and staff | |
| · Evolution of WIRAB and interests of Western Governors [presentation] | |
| · Key issues in past WIRAB advice | |
| Background Information | |
| WIRAB advice | |
| WIRAB main webpage | |
| 8:30 a.m. | For each of the following issues WECC, NERC and FERC representatives |
| are asked to highlight their views on the major challenges and next steps | |
| Issue 1: Compliance and enforcement: Near-term challenges in enforcing | |
| mandatory standards beginning June 1 | |
| · WECC - Louise McCarren, CEO | |
| Tom Schneider, Compliance & Enforcement Program Hearings Officer | |
| Steve McCoy, Director of Compliance [presentation] | |
| · NERC - Rick Sergel, CEO | |
| · FERC - John Moot, General Counsel | |
| Shelton Cannon, Director, Office of Markets & Reliability | |
| · Discussion | |
| Background information | |
| WECC Compliance Enforcement Program (CEP) Overview | |
| WECC Settlement and Hearing Process | |
| WECC CEP Sanction and Penalty Calculations | |
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NERC’s
Game Plan for Mandatory Standards Implementation 2007 |
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| Issue 2: Funding and upgrading the capabilities of Western Interconnection | |
| Reliability Centers | |
| · WECC | |
| · NERC | |
| · FERC | |
| · Discussion | |
| Background Information | |
| Relialibility Center Strategic Initiative | |
| Issue 3: Improving the usefulness of reliability adequacy assessments | |
| · WECC | |
| · NERC | |
| · FERC | |
| · Discussion | |
| Background Information | |
| NERC 2006 Long-Term Reliability Assessment | |
| Issue 4: Implementation of the NERC-WECC delegation agreement | |
| · WECC | |
| · NERC | |
| · FERC | |
| · Discussion | |
| Background Information | |
| Proposed NERC-WECC Delegation Agreement | |
| Issue 5: How to improve the economic criteria for evaluating reliability | |
| standards | |
| · WECC | |
| · NERC | |
| · FERC | |
| · Discussion | |
| Issue 6: How can WIRAB add value | |
| · Increased WIRAB-FERC Collaboration | |
| Other Issues | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Business meeting |
| · Approval of the summary of the March 26 WIRAB meeting | |
| · 2008 WIRAB work plan and budget [presentation] | |
| · Election of WIRAB chair and vice chair | |
| 11:30 a.m. | Public comments |
| Noon | Adjourn |