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Boundary Conditions (from Jim Robb)
1. Assume that WECC will not take on NERC-registered entity function (i.e., Planning Coordinator function), absent direction from NERC
2. Start with an assumption that we don’t want to take on any FERC Order 1000-related compliance obligations. Provide support for those RPGs that have those obligations.
3. Make sure the work we’re doing has a very strong reliability hook (consistent with Section 215 funding); any variance would require serious discussion with the Board
TEPPC Customers
Customer / Products Valued /Public / Resulting actions from analytical products- system reliability, scenario work, judgments about how to study the system
· Need broad, stakeholder-based function to vet assumptions and results
· Confidence that results are connected to public needs and values
Stakeholders / TEPPC work products support their analyses and data needs
· Independent, open, unbiased review - broad participation
Western Planning Regions / Collaboration, data, analytical results
State and Provincial agencies / independent analysis of the future that they can act on
· "End use" products
Federal regulators / NERC/FERC: event analysis, reliability assessments, frequency response studies...
Transmission Developers / Intermediate and end results; PCM studies/environmental information
Innovators (businesses, DOE, academics) / Results of 10-year and 20-year studies, frequency response studies
· DOE: intermediate reports
· Innovators: intermediate and final results
Transmission owners, providers and customers
Developers of energy imbalance markets
Marketers
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TEPPC Products
Product / Valued By / Reliability / Economic / Current Product / Future Product /Data
Common Case / Many stakeholders / X / X / X
20-year Reference Case / X / X / X
Fuel price assumptions, other Common Case components / State regulators (review and analysis of rate case proceedings, other state regulatory proceedings) / X
Environmental data (access to data, use of data viewer and environmental review process) / Transmission developers, regulators, environmental organizations / X / X / X
Data (e.g., production cost model data) / Multiple stakeholders / X / X / X
Tools
Capital cost calculator / Regional Planning Groups, transmission developers / X / X
PCM modeling enhancements / X / X / X
Round Trip functionality / Regional Planning Groups, WIRAB / X / X
Long-Term Planning Tool (internal staff use only) / WECC SAP staff / X / X / X
Analyses
Study case results (e.g., potential savings from importing Wyoming wind into California) / Consumers / X / X / X
10-year study case results / X / X / X
20-year study case results / Public policy makers, NGOs / X / X / X
Intermediate (e.g., 15-year) study cases / X / X / X
Reliability Impact Analysis (e.g., CPP) / State governments, public policy makers, others / X / X
Library of potential transmission expansion options / NGOs, transmission developers / X / X / X
Other Products
Scenario planning process / Policy makers, NGOs / X / X / X
“Anchor Case” / Multiple stakeholders / X / X / X
Independent stakeholder review process / All stakeholders / X / X / X
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TEPPC Strengths
· WECC brand - impartial objective/ stakeholder-driven organization
· WECC is a leader/pace setter for other reliability areas
· Compare inputs to complete analyses from an Interconnection-wide perspective
· Open stakeholder process
· Independent perspective
· Only entity with Interconnection-wide perspective
· Consistent/ reliable funding through 215 process
· Dedicated participation from real experts from throughout the Interconnection
· Commitment to transparency and inclusion
· Environmental data review process
TEPPC Opportunities
· Common accurate data base across models
· Anchor Case
· Understanding and responding to change (e.g./ technologies)
· Understanding and responding to reliability risks
· Understanding and responding to physical and cyber security (Need to think about the appropriate role for TEPPC)
· Formulate coherent snapshot of the Western Interconnection for use in future stability analyses
· Analyze potential risks of large PV penetration (large-scale trip of inverters)
· Improved coordination with Regions
· Outreach to stakeholders re: desired products/services
TEPPC Challenges
· Complete reliability assessment (beyond PCM only)
· Ensure that activities meet Section 215 funding requirements
· Resolve competing interests for data release; ensure data security and appropriate data release
· Change in general (change management, scope and pace of change)
· Perceived limitations on TEPPC's activities - budget or past activities
· Keeping up with changes in the system (e.g., reduction in load on distribution system, growth of renewables)
· Efficiency- prioritizing requested work
· Potential duplication of work (e.g., reliability analyses)
· Relevance - keeping TEPPC and its products relevant to stakeholders' needs (e.g., entities doing their own modeling)
· TEPPC role WRT FERC Order 1000 – Regions are legally responsible, WECC is not
· Software development risks (e.g., BCCS)
Follow Up/Action Items
1. Define distinction between reliability and economics
2. Identify RPG timelines vis-à-vis timeline for WECC planning needs
3. Determine right time/way to get input from other TEPPC customers (transmission owners and transmission providers)
4. Identify opportunities to gain efficiency with TEPPC and PCC
· Consider needed process changes for gathering and managing load, resource and transmission data
· Consider options to increase consistency in models, data and assumptions
· Consider combining the two committees into one (would require Board action)?
5. Refine/revise TEPPC Value Proposition
6. Consider options for data release—test assumption that data can’t be used effectively unless it’s totally transparent
7. Consider new products/services that may be appropriate for TEPPC to offer
8. Develop additional detail of the Western Planning Regions' (WPRs’) proposal that TEPPC use each region's transmission plan-based "snapshot" power flow case to create an 8,760-hour "anchor" grid simulation case (e.g., a future year Gridview case).
9. Develop a plan to fill in the “white space” in the U.S., British Columbia, Alberta and Mexico that is not covered by Western Planning Regions (WPRs)
10. Create web site for TEPC Review Task Force
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