North AmericanElectricReliabilityCouncil

PrincetonForrestalVillage, 116-390 Village Boulevard, Princeton, New Jersey08540-5731

Operating Committee Meeting

September 14, 2005  Following Joint Meeting5 p.m.
September 15, 2005  8 a.m.5 p.m.

The Westin Galleria Dallas

13340 Dallas Parkway

Dallas, Texas75240

Phone: 972-450-2954  Fax: 972-851-2869

Agenda

1.Administration

a.Arrangements — Secretary

b.Announcement of Quorum — Secretary

c.Procedures — Secretary

i)Antitrust Guidelines

ii)Parliamentary Procedures

iii)Organization and Procedures Manual for the NERC Standing Committees

iv)Waiver of 10-day Advance Requirement for Motions — Chairman

d.Interim Approval of New Members

e.Introduction of Members and Guests — Secretary

2.Approval of Agenda — Chairman

3.Consent Agenda — Chairman

a.Minutes — June 8–9, 2005 Operating Committee Meeting

b.Flowgate Management Reference Document

c.Geomagnetic Disturbance Reference Document

4.Information Items — Secretary

a.Board of Trustees Highlights

b.Quarterly Disturbance Report

c.Subcommittee Officers

d.Blackout Investigation Team Recommendations

e.Dynamic Transfer Catalog

5.Committee Administration — Chairman

a.Election of Committee Secretary

b.OC Nominating Task Force

c.OC Executive Committee (Thursday, September 15)

6.NERC/NAESB Coordination Items — Rae McQuade and Don Benjamin

a.Transfer of Business Practices to Reliability Standards

b.ATC/AFC SARs and Business Practices

c.Joint Interchange Scheduling Working Group

7.Operating Events

a.Frequency Excursion – Eastern Interconnection – August 14, 2005 — David Zwergel

b.California ISO Load Reduction – August 25, 2005 — Jim McIntosh

8.ERO Transition — Gerry Cauley

9.IDC Granularity Option 3 Project — Larry Kezele

10.“Best Practices” — Paul Murphy

11.Planning CommitteeReport — Armie Perez

12.Functional Model-Reliability Standards Coordination

a.Task Delegation Concepts — Scott Moore

b.Regional Reliability Plan Guidelines — Linda Campbell

13.Balancing Standards — Doug Hils

a.Bal-001 through -006

b.BAL-007 through -012 Field Test

14.Operator Certification— Earl Cass

15.Reliability Plans — Larry Kezele

a.Revised Reliability Plans

b.New Reliability Plan for Approval

c.Reliability Coordinator Reliability Plan “Gap” Analysis

16.Improving the Effectiveness of Joint PC/OC Meetings

Operating Committee Meeting Agenda- 1 -

September 14–15, 2005

Item 1.Administration

Item 1.aArrangements

The secretary will review the meeting arrangements. The meeting begins on Wednesday, September 14 after the joint OC-PC meeting (or after lunch), and will adjourn on Thursday, September 15 at 5 p.m. A luncheon will be served at noon on both days.

Item 1.bAnnouncement of Quorum

The secretary will announce whether a quorum (two-thirds of the voting members) is in place. NOTE: The committee cannot conduct business without a quorum. Please be prepared to stay for the entire meeting.

Item 1.cProcedures

The NERC Antitrust Compliance Guidelines, Organization and Procedures Manual, and a summary of Parliamentary Procedures are attached for reference. The secretary will answer questions regarding these procedures.

Attachments

  • Antitrust Guidelines
  • Parliamentary Procedures
  • Organization and Procedures Manual for the NERC Standing Committees

Action – Waiver of “Ten-Day” rule

“Ten-day” rule. The chairman will waive the rule requiring a ten-day posting before an item can be brought to the committee for consideration. (See text at right.) The committee members are free to make any motions they desire.

Item 1.dInterim Approval of New Members

Action

Approve Jim McIntosh as a member of the Operating Committee on an interim basis. WECC has designated Mr. McIntosh to replace Ed Riley as one of its two regional representatives.

Interim approval is necessary to allow Mr. McIntosh to have full membership privileges at this meeting. The Board of Trustees will formally approve Mr. McIntosh’s appointment to the OC at the board’s October 2005 meeting.

Item 1.eIntroduction of Members and Guests

The chairman will ask the committee members and guests to introduce themselves.

Attachment

Operating Committee roster and organization

Item 2.Approval of Agenda

Action

Approve meeting agenda.

Background

The chairman will review the agenda, ask for amendments, and then approval.

Item 3.Consent Agenda

The consent agenda allows the Operating Committee to approve routine items that would not normally need discussion. Any OC member may ask the chairman to remove an item from the consent agenda for formal discussion and action.

Action

Approve the attached documents.

Attachments

  1. Minutes of June 8–9, 2005 Operating Committee meeting
  2. “Flowgate Administration Reference Document,” Version 3, redline, March 21, 2005
  3. “Geomagnetic Disturbance Reference Document,” Version 2, redline, March 21, 2005

General Background on Reference Document Updates

Reference documents provide additional information on certain reliability standards, but are not themselves standards.The standing committees approve reference documents.

With the approval of the reliability standards, the Operating Reliability Subcommittee (ORS) reviewed the Operating Manual reference documents to determine if any reference document under its purview contained language that might be considered a reliability standard.

The ORS reviewed and revised the Flowgate Management Reference Document and the Geomagnetic Disturbance Reference Document for inclusion as technical reference documents to the standards. As was done with the operating policies, this required converting the reference documents to Functional Model terminology and updating the reference documents, as needed, since some of the documents have not been reviewed for several years. In some instances, the subject matter of the reference document could drive a standard authorization request. In other instances, the subject matter of the reference document may no longer be required, and the document should be retired. The other Operating Committee subcommittees are also revising the reference documents they are responsible for.

Flowgate Administration Reference Document and Geomagnetic Disturbance Reference Document

The Distribution Factors Working Group reviewed and revised the Flowgate Administration Reference Document and the Reliability Coordinator Working Group revised the Geomagnetic Disturbance Reference Document in accordance with the above criteria. The proposed revisions are reflected in the attached redline version of these reference documents.

Item 4.Information Items

These items are listed FYI and we are not planning any formal discussions. However, the NERC staff or subcommittee officers will be prepared to discuss any of these items if the OC wishes.

Item 4.aBoard of Trustees Highlights

Attachment

Highlights from the August 1, 2005 Board of Trustees meeting

Item 4.bQuarterly Disturbance Report

Attachment

“Disturbance Analysis Working Group – Quarterly Update”

Item 4.cSubcommittee Officers

Chairman Jones appointed the following subcommittee officers:

  • Scott Moore as the Transmission Subcommittee’s chairman
  • Jim Castle as the Operating Reliability Subcommittee chairman
  • Michel Armstrong as the Nominating Task Force chairman

The Operating Committee thanks Bob Reed, Roger Harszy, and Gayle Mayo who previously led these groups.

Item 4.dBlackout Investigation Team Recommendations

Summary

The Planning Committee has formed a Blackout Recommendations Review Task Force to review a number of recommendations from NERC’s August 14, 2003 blackout investigation team on transmission and generation performance.

Secretary’s note

The BRRTF has two “slots” for Operating Committee liaisons, recognizing that most of these recommendations pertain to the Planning Committee. Larry Kezele, Tom Vandervort, and Don Benjamin from the NERC staff will participate in the BRRTF’s initial meetings until we can determine whether some of these recommendations need Operating Committee attention. In those cases, it may be possible to bring the recommendations directly to the appropriate OC subcommittees for further work, or to the Operating Committee for additional discussion.

We will keep the OC apprised regarding the task force’s progress and will call on the committee members when needed. Background on the BRRTF and a list of the recommendations follows.

Background

General. The members of the, Generation and Transmission Performance, Modeling, and Dynamics blackout investigation teams recommend that a new task force  Blackout Recommendations Review Task Force  be formed by the NERC Planning Committee, with liaison participation from the NERC Operating Committee, to review the additional blackout recommendations. It is the investigation team’s view that a significant number of the additional recommendations pertains to the Planning Committee’s activities.

Membership. The new task force shall consist of three to five PC members, the chairs of the PC’s Transmission Issues Subcommittee, Interconnection Dynamics Working Group, the System Protection and Control Task Force, the Multiregional Modeling Working Group, two or three Operating Committee representatives, and a NERC staff coordinator.

The task force chairman will be appointed by the PC chairman from among the task force members.

Scope of Activities. This new task force is to review the additional twenty-four recommendations and recommend those additional activities, either new or as follow-on activities to the original sets of blackout recommendations from the NERC Board of Trustees (February 10, 2004) and the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force (April 2004), that should be pursued. The task force also is to recommend which of the recommendations are to be assigned to the Planning Committee, the Operating Committee, jointly to the PC and OC, other NERC committees, and/or the regional reliability councils. The task force is to address “existing” technical recommendations TR1 through TR7, “strengthened” recommendations TR8 through TR13, and “new” recommendations TR14 through TR24.

Reporting. The task force shall report to the NERC Planning Committee. The PC-approved task force report will then be presented to the NERC Technical Steering Committee (TSC) for review and endorsement of the coordination of recommended activities.

Schedule. The new task force will report its findings to the PC at the September 2005 PC meeting. Following PC approval, the task force’s findings will be reviewed by the TSC in early October 2005. Each NERC committee (or region) in turn, will develop a plan and schedule for addressing the recommendations assigned to it and will, in turn, make appropriate assignments to its existing or new subgroups at its December 2005 meeting. Implementation of the additional blackout recommendations should begin in early 2006. These assignments should be completed during 2006 or as soon thereafter as possible.

Implementation of Action Plan. It is recommended that the task force review the twenty-four additional blackout recommendations as categorized by the blackout investigation team and detailed below.

Existing Recommendations — TR-1 through TR-7. The new task force should review the existing NERC and U.S.-Canada task force recommendations, the “existing” technical report recommendations, and the technical report to be issued this summer.

Determine and report any potential changes or additions to the current recommendations.

Strengthened Recommendations — TR- 8 through TR-13. The new task force should review the existing NERC and U.S.-Canada task force recommendations, the “existing” Technical report recommendations, the detailed technical report to be issued this summer, and the proposed “strengthened” recommendations.

It should determine the appropriateness and technical merit of each strengthened recommendation, in consultation with the technical report team, and accept and/or modify the strengthened recommendations as necessary.

Determine and report any potential changes or additions to the current recommendations necessary to accommodate the strengthened recommendations.

New Recommendations — TR-14 through TR-24. The new task force should review the existing NERC and U.S.-Canada task force recommendations, the “existing” technical report recommendations, the detailed technical report to be issued this summer, and the proposed “new” recommendations.

It should determine the appropriateness and technical merit of each strengthened recommendation, in consultation with the technical report team, and accept and/or modify the new recommendations as necessary.

Determine and report any potential changes or additions to the current recommendations necessary to accommodate the new recommendations.

ID / Recommendation / Original Rec. Assigned / Status
Original Recommendations
TR-1 / Evaluate Relay Loadability Issues (Zone 3) and Implement Mitigation Measures / PC / SPCTF / In Progress
TR-2 / Establish Guidelines on the Use of Remote Back-Up Protection Systems in EHV Networks / PC / SPCTF / In Progress
TR-3 / Modify the Interchange Distribution Calculator (IDC) to Increase Operational Awareness of the Causes of Circuit Loading / OC / IDCWG / Completed
TR-4 / Improve Powerflow Modeling Techniques and Correct Discrepancies / PC / MMWG / TIS / In Progress
TR-5 / Strengthen Standards on Tagging of Dynamic Schedules and Pseudo Ties / OC / IS / In Progress
TR-6 / Improve System Data Exchange to Update IDC and Other Reliability Analysis Systems / OC / SDX TF / MMWG / In Progress
TR-7 / Evaluate and Implement Under-Voltage Load Shedding (UVLS) In Areas Susceptible to Voltage Collapse / PC / TIS & SPCTF / In Progress
Strengthened Recommendations
TR-8 / Evaluate and Strengthen Under-Frequency Load Shedding (UFLS) Standards to Enhance Performance Under Severe System Conditions / PC / TIS & SPCTF / In Progress
TR-9 / Clarify Generation Data Exchange Requirements and Evaluate Generator Protection to Ensure Coordination with Transmission System Protection Functions / PC / MMWG, TIS, & SPCTF / N/A
TR-10 / Standardize Disturbance Data Recorder Systems / PC / IDWG & SPCTF / In Progress
TR-11 / Enhance Standards for Rating Transmission Lines / SAC / In Progress
TR-12 / Improve and Validate Dynamic Models / PC / MMWG & TIS / In Progress
TR-13 / Improve Transactional Analysis and Generation Dispatch in Regional and Interregional Studies / PC / MMWG & TIS / N/A
New Recommendations
TR-14 / Establish and Implement Mapping Requirements for Disturbance Analysis / Not Assigned
TR-15 / Establish EMS and SCADA Time Synchronization Standards / Not Assigned
TR-16 / Evaluate and Implement “Defense in Depth” System Monitoring, Control, and Protection Measures to Slow Down and Mitigate the Severity of Cascades / Not Assigned
TR-17 / Review the Response of Switch-on-to-Fault Relay Functions to System Disturbances / Not Assigned
TR-18 / Revise Industry Standards to Establish Under/Over Frequency Design Limits of Operation for Distance Relays / Not Assigned
TR-19 / Evaluate and Report on the Performance and Complexity of Protection and Control Schemes for Three Terminal Lines / Not Assigned
TR-20 / Establish Guidelines on High Speed Reclosing / Not Assigned
TR-21 / Require the Installation of Underfrequency Protection for Generators and Coordination with UFLS / Not Assigned
TR-22 / Evaluate and Implement Coordination Requirements for Generator Backup Protection Responses in Cohesive Generation Groups / Not Assigned
TR-23 / Establish Regime for More In-Depth Analysis in Transmission Reliability Studies / Not Assigned
TR-24 / Continue “What If” Analyses, Promote Research Based on the Blackout, and Preserve Forensic Analysis Techniques / Not Assigned

Item 4.eDynamic Transfer Catalog

The Interchange Subcommittee(IS) will soon ask theregional councils for help in administering theirbalancing authorities’ completion of the dynamic transfer catalog. The Interchange Subcommittee will use the information in this catalog to review system modeling and granularity in the Interchange Distribution Calculator.

The subcommittee will analyze the information to confirm that dynamic transfers are correctly modeled. Once completed, the IS will share this information with the regional compliance managers, Resources Subcommittee, and the NERC Operating Reliability Subcommittee.

Background

At the Operating Committee’s March 2004 meeting,Doug Hils, the Interchange Subcommittee chairman, provided a presentation to the OC (see excerpt at right) regarding the compilation of a dynamic transfers catalog. The Interchange Subcommittee is developing this catalog in response to findings from the August 14, 2003, Blackout Section V Final NERC Report Conclusions and Recommendations. Item 23 of this report noted:

“Numerous control areas in the Eastern Interconnection, including First Energy, were not correctly tagging dynamic schedules, resulting in large mismatches between actual, scheduled, and tagged interchange on August 14. This prevented reliability coordinators in the Eastern Interconnection from predicting and modeling the effects of these transactions on the grid.”

The dynamic transfer catalog was then assigned to the IS at the March OC meeting. The OC also requested that the IS coordinate developing a questionnaire for building this catalog with the Resources Subcommittee to help the RS collect AIE survey information. The questionnaire has been jointly developed with the RS and is ready to be sent to the industry for data collection.

The Interchange Subcommittee estimates the number of dynamic transfers to be between 100 and 500.

Item 5.Committee Administration

When there’s a change in the Operating Committee chairman, the committee needs to do three things at its next regular meeting:

  1. Select the committee’s secretary
  2. Approve the members of the Nominating Task Force
  3. Approve the “at large” members of the committee’s executive committee

We will handle these as items 5a, 5b, and 5c.

Item 5.aElection of Committee Secretary

Action

Elect committee secretary.

The chair will ask for nominations for committee secretary.

Background

From the “Organization and Procedures Manual For NERC Standing Committees:”

“At the first regularly scheduled committee meeting following the appointment of a new committee chairman or the reappointment of a committee chairman, the committee shall elect a member of the NERC staff to serve as secretary of the committee.”

Item 5.bOC Nominating Task Force

Action

Approve Nominating Task Force membership.

Background

Background

We have two vacancies on the OC’s Nominating Task Force as a result of Gayle Mayo’s election to committee vice chairman, and Ed Riley’s resignation from the OC. Chairman Sam Jones has selected John Powell (Platte River Power Authority), and John S. Holeman (Duke Power). Chairman Jones has selected Michel Armstrong as the task force chairman. The Operating Committee needs to approve the proposed task force membership:

  1. Michel Armstrong (chairman)
  2. Bill Hatfield
  3. Van Wardlaw
  4. John Powell
  5. John S. (Sam) Holeman

Nominating Task Force Duties

The duties of the nominating task force are explained in the Organization and Procedures Manual for NERC Standing Committees (page 15 – highlights added).

“Nominating Task Force Responsibilities

“Each standing committee shall have a Nominating Task Force, whose five members shall be nominated by the committee chairman and approved by the committee, respectively. The committee chairman shall appoint the task force chairman from among the five task force members. In addition to the duties, rights, and privileges described elsewhere in this manual, the Nominating Task Force shall have the following responsibilities: