WECC Criterion – INT-020-WECC-CRT-2, Interchange Schedule Backup Process Page 1 of 13
Posting 2 June 6 through July 6, 2016
Criterion Development Timeline
This section is maintained by the drafting team during the development of the criterion and will be removed upon final disposition.
Description of Current Draft
In accordance with Standard Authorization Request WECC-0118, this project is designed to remove all references to the Interchange Authority (IA) from the Applicability section and the affected WECC Requirements and WECC Measures.
Overview
To meet the specifications of the SAR, WECC Requirements WR1, WR7, and WR17 of Version 1.2 were deleted as part of Posting 1. These WRs called for the Interchange Authority to (WR1) monitor the real-time status of the interchange software, and to (WR7) report the failure and (WR17) restoration of the interchange software. The drafting team concluded these functions are protected and preserved in peripheral documents such as the contract between OATI and Peak; therefore, retention of the WRs is not “necessary to implement, to augment, or to comply with Reliability Standards.”[1] The DT has suggested the language could migrate to the WECC Interchange Tool Functional Requirement (WITFR) document; however, direct migration of the language is outside of the scope of this project.[2]
For readability, the document was restructured grouping WRs by time window such as during and after an interchange software failure. Version 1.2, WR8 and WR18 required the Reliability Coordinator (RC) to declare the start and termination of an interchange software failure and also mandated how that declaration would be communicated. These two WRs were combined into Version 2, WR6 of Posting 1 that now requires the RC to notify its Balancing Authorities whenever the interchange software fails and again when the software is restored. Posting 2 does not specify how that notification is to be implemented; rather, the drafting team opted to leave that discretion with the RC in order to provide flexibility to meet the circumstances of the software failure.
Implementation Plan
The Reliability Standards Development Procedures (Procedures) require that an implementation plan be posted with at least one posting of the project. Because the proposed changes are largely clarification and the proposed new requirements carry a minimal burden, the drafting team is requesting an effective date as of “The first day of the first month following WECC Board of Directors approval.”
Expansion of Scope
The drafting team is aware some of the proposed changes are currently outside of the scope of the current SAR and will seek permission to expand the scope of the SAR when the WECC Standards Committee (WSC) meets in June 2016. If the WSC does not expand the SAR, those changes falling outside of the scope of the original SAR will be retracted and the project posted for comment based solely on the SAR as originally drafted.
The expansion of scope request includes:
- Change/delete affected defined terms;
- Use of generic language instead of defined terms wherever possible;
- Conformity of language and sentence structures to match current drafting conventions; Among other things, the Measures should be conformed from “shall provide” to “will have evidence”;
- Possessive references to WECC’s software should be changed to non-possessive;
- General non-substantive changes added for clarity.
Completed Actions / Date
WECC-0118 Standard Authorization Request (SAR) received / 1/12/2016
WECC Standards Committee (WSC) approved the SAR / 1/28/2016
Drafting Team (DT) solicited / 1/28/2016
WSC approved the DT / 3/8/2016
First DT meeting / 4/5/2016
Posting 1 Open / 4/7/2016
Posting 1 Closed / 5/23/2016
DT Meets to Respond to Comments / 5/31/2016
Posting 2 Open / 6/6/2016
WSC Expands Scope / 6/14/2016
Posting 2 Closed / 7/6/2016
DT meets to answer Comments / 7/14/2016
Anticipated Actions / Date
WSC Meets (TBA) / TBA September 2016
Western Electricity Coordinating Council
WECC Criterion – INT-020-WECC-CRT-2
Interchange Schedule Backup Process
New or Modified Term(s) Used in the WECC Glossary for WECC Criteria and Naming Conventions (WECC Glossary).
This section includes terms for use in the proposed criterion as well as terms proposed for deletion.
If approved, the defined term Interchange Authority Emergency would be deleted and replaced with the more generic phrase “interchange software failure.” This avoids confusion associated with declaration of emergency conditions and provides greater discretion as to what constitutes failure. Although the existing definition contains a substantial list of triggering events, the DT concluded it was not exhaustive – nor should it be.
If approved, the defined term Interchange Authority Software Provider would be deleted and replaced with the generic phrase “software provider.” Deletion of the defined term also eliminates the incorrect inclusion of a requirement inside of a defined term (i.e. “Contact information will be provided on the homepage of the WECC Interchange Tool.”)
Upon approval by the WECC Board of Directors (Board), this section will be removed and the WECC Glossary will be adjusted accordingly.
Term(s) proposed for Deletion:
- Interchange Authority Emergency
- Interchange Authority Software Provider
Term / WECC Board Approval / Approved Definition / Term Origin
Interchange Authority Emergency / July 29, 2010 / A failure of the Interchange Authority software system that prevents the distribution of e-Tags to Reliability Coordinators, Balancing Authorities, Transmission Service Providers, Purchasing-Selling Entities, Load-Serving Entities and Interchange Authorities for assessment of confirmed interchange transactions, for distribution of confirmed interchanged transactions, or both.
/ INT-020-WECC-CRT-1.2
Interchange Authority Software Provider / July 29, 2010 / The Help Desk of the Software Vendor who is supporting the Interchange Authority Software System (WECC Interchange Tool). Contact information will be provided on the homepage of the WECC Interchange Tool. / INT-020-WECC-CRT-1.2
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INT-020-WECC-CRT-2 Interchange Schedule Backup Process Page 1 of 13
A. Introduction
1. Title:Interchange Schedule Backup Process
2. Number:INT-020-WECC-CRT-2
3. Purpose:The purpose of this document is to establish a coordinated back-stop scheduling process that protects the reliability of the grid during Interchange-software failure that prevents the distribution of e-Tag information for assessment of confirmed interchange transactions, distribution of confirmed interchanged transactions, or both.
4. Applicability:
4.1. Functional Entities:
4.1.1. Reliability Coordinators
4.1.2. Balancing Authorities
4.1.3. Transmission Service Providers
4.1.4. Purchasing-Selling Entities
5. Effective Date: The first day of the first month following WECC Board of Directors approval.
B. Requirements and Measures
WR1.Each Transmission Service Provider shall maintain a record of the transactions on its paths for the current hour plus the next four consecutive hours.
WM1.Each Transmission Service Provider will have a record of all transactions on its paths for the hour reviewed in accordance with WR1 plus the following four consecutive hours.
WR2.Each Purchasing Selling Entity shall maintain a record of its interchange schedules for the current hour plus the next four consecutive hours.
WM2.Each Purchasing Selling Entity will have a record of all of its interchange schedules for the hour reviewed in accordance with WR2 plus the following four consecutive hours.
WR3.Each Balancing Authority shall maintain a duplicate copy of its aggregate Net Scheduled Interchange (NSI) as previously confirmed by the interchange software for the current hour plus the next four consecutive hours.
WM3.Each Balancing Authority will have evidence that it retained a duplicate copy of its aggregate Net Scheduled Interchange (NSI) as previously confirmed by the interchange software for the hour reviewed in accordance with WR3 and the following four consecutive hours.
WR4.Each Balancing Authority shall store a duplicate copy of its aggregate NSI on a storage system independent from the interchange software tool.
WM4.Each Balancing Authority will have evidence that storage of its aggregate NSI takes place on a storage system independent from the interchange software tool, per WR4.
WR5.Each Balancing Authority and Purchasing Selling Entity shall report to the interchange software provider any suspected failure of the interchange software.
WM5. Each Balancing Authority and Purchasing Selling Entity will have evidence that it reported to the interchange software provider any suspected failure of the interchange software, per WR5. If no failures were suspected attestation of that fact is sufficient evidence.
WR6.Each Reliability Coordinator shall notify its Balancing Authorities whenever the interchange software fails and again when the interchange software has been restored.
WM6.Each Reliability Coordinator will have evidence that it notified its Balancing Authorities each time the interchange software failed, and again when the interchange software was restored, per WR6.
The following requirements only apply during failure of the software system(s) designed to distribute interchange information within the Western Interconnection.
WR7.Each Balancing Authority shall operate to the most recent duplicate copy of its aggregate NSI as last confirmed by the interchange software (net of all individual adjacent NSI’s).
WM7.Each Balancing Authority will have evidence that it operated to the data contained in its most recent duplicate copy of its aggregate NSI as last confirmed by the interchange software (net of all individual adjacent NSI’s) or as adjusted by changes allowed in this criterion for each specified period covered during interchange software failure, per WR7.
WR8.Each Balancing Authority shall exhaust all of its internal and dynamically scheduled or pseudo-tied external resources before requesting new interchange.
WM8.Each Balancing Authority will have evidence that it exhausted all of its internal and dynamically scheduled or pseudo-tied external resources before it requested a new interchange for each specified period covered during interchange software failure, per WR8.
WR9.Each Sink Balancing Authority shall implement new interchange transactions when necessary to maintain load-to-generation balance, reserve requirements, or to maintain reliability.
WM9.Each Sink Balancing Authority will have evidence that it implemented new interchange transactions that were necessary to maintain load-to-generation balance, reserve requirements, or to maintain reliability, for each specified period covered during interchange software failure, per WR9.
WR10.Each Sink Balancing Authority shall create new interchange by verbally communicating and confirming with the Source Balancing Authority and the Transmission Service Providers that are parties to the transaction.
WM10. Each Sink Balancing Authority will have evidence that, the Sink Balancing Authority created and confirmed new interchange with the Source Balancing Authority and the Transmission Service Providers that were parties to the newly created transaction, for each specified period covered during interchange software failure, per WR10.
WR11.Each Sending Balancing Authority that is a party to the newly created interchange transaction shall verbally communicate and confirm with each Receiving Balancing Authority and Transmission Service Provider involved in the transaction created by the Sink Balancing Authority.
WM11. Each Sending Balancing Authority that is a party to the newly created interchange transaction will have evidence that it communicated and confirmed the newly created interchange transaction with each Receiving Balancing Authority and Transmission Service Provider involved in the transaction created by the Sink Balancing Authority, for each specified period covered during interchange software failure, per WR11.
WR12.Each Balancing Authority shall verbally communicate upward adjustments to existing non-dynamic transactions with each Balancing Authority and each Transmission Service Provider that is a party to the transaction, as if those adjustments were a new transaction.
WM12.Each Balancing Authority will have evidence that upward adjustments to existing non-dynamic transactions were arranged by verbally communicating with each Balancing Authority and each Transmission Service Provider that is a party to the transaction, as if the upward adjustment were a new transaction, for each specified period covered during interchange software failure, per WR12.
WR13.Each Balancing Authority and each Transmission Service Provider shall verbally communicate downward adjustments or curtailments to existing non-dynamic transactions with each Balancing Authority and each Transmission Service Provider that is a party to the transaction.
WM13.Each Balancing Authority and each Transmission Service Provider will have evidence that downward adjustments or curtailments to existing non-dynamic transactions were arranged by verbally communicating with each Balancing Authority and each Transmission Service Provider that is a party to the transaction, for each specified period covered during an interchange software failure, per WR13.
WR14.Each Balancing Authority and each Transmission Service Provider shall complete the Transaction Data Template (Attachment A) for each new transaction.
WM14.Each Balancing Authority and each Transmission Service Provider will have evidence that it completed the Transaction Data Template (Attachment A) for each new transaction created during each specified period covered during an interchange software failure, per WR14.
The following requirements only apply after restoration of software system(s) designed to distribute interchange information within the Western Interconnection.
WR15.Each Sink Balancing Authority shall submit or cause to have submitted an after-the-fact e-Tag, after termination of each interchange software failure and before the end of the after-the-fact e-Tag submission deadline, for each transaction implemented during each interchange software failure.
WM15.Each Sink Balancing Authority will have evidence that it submitted an after-the-fact e-Tag after termination of each interchange software failure and prior to the end of the after-the-fact e-Tag submission deadline, for each transaction implemented during each interchange software failure, per WR15.
WR16.Each Sink Balancing Authority shall update or cause to have updated its dynamic tags, after termination of each interchange software failure and before the end of the dynamic tag adjustment deadline, using the actual interchange values that occurred during the interchange software failure.
WM16.Each Sink Balancing Authority will have evidence that it updated or caused to be updated its dynamic tags, after termination of the interchange software failure and before the end of the dynamic tag adjustment deadline, using the actual interchange values that occurred during the interchange software failure, per WR16.
Version History
Version / Date / Action / Change Tracking1 / June 10, 2010 / Operating Committee Approved / Developed as WECC-0054. Initial version
1 / July 29, 2010 / WECC Board of Directors Approved / Initial version
1 / September 5, 2012 / WECC Board of Directors changed designation from “CRT” to “RBP” / Designation change
1.1 / January 16, 2013 / Errata / In Attachment A, the word “Western” was changed to “WECC” in regards to the “WECC Interchange Tool.” In the Purpose statement, the term “Criterion” was changed to “document”. Attachment A was reformatted from Landscape to Portrait. Conformed to current template.
1.1 / June 25, 2014 / WECC Board of Directors changed designation from “RBP” to “CRT” / Designation change
1.2 / January 28, 2016 / Errata / “WIAB” was added to the Title to match the header. In Attachment A, references to INT-020-WECC-RBP-1 and its location on the WECC Web sites were removed as they are out of date. Reference to the project tracking number was removed from the Attachment and relocated into the document header to match the current template.
2 / TBD / WECC Board of Directors Approved / Developed as WECC-0118. “Interchange Authority” was removed from the Applicable Entity section and affected WECC Requirements and Measures.
When used to describe software, the same term was replaced with “WECC interchange tool.” WECC requirements WR1, WR7, and WR17 were deleted. The RC’s requirement to declare software status was changed to a requirement to communicate that status.
Disclaimer
WECC receives data used in its analyses from a wide variety of sources. WECC strives to source its data from reliable entities and undertakes reasonable efforts to validate the accuracy of the data used. WECC believes the data contained herein and used in its analyses is accurate and reliable. However, WECC disclaims any and all representations, guarantees, warranties, and liability for the information contained herein and any use thereof. Persons who use and rely on the information contained herein do so at their own risk.
Attachments
Attachment A
Transaction Data Template
WECC Interchange Authority Back-Up (WIAB)
TagID:______DateTime Prepared:______TimeZone:______
StartDate: ______StopDate: ______Transaction Type: ______
Contact: ______Phone: ______Fax: ______
Comment: ______
WECC Reserve Requirements Entity: ______WECC Reserve Requirement Percent:______
Generation
Source BA / GEN PSE / SourcePoint / MW Profile / Contracts / GenProductTransmission Segments
S. Entity / TransOwner / POR / POD / MW Profile / TP / TransProduct / Oasis NumberLoad
Sink BA / Load PSE / Sink Point / Product / ContractsMarketPath
PSE / Product / Contract / MiscExpanded Energy Profiles
StartDate / StartTime / StopDate / StopTime / Cur.MW / RampDurStacked Transmission Allocation Profiles
TP:POR:POD:StartDate / StartTime / StopDate / StopTime / MWLevel / TC / Oasis#
Rationale
A Rationale section is optional. If Rationale Boxes were used during the development of this project, the content of those boxes appears below.
Rationale Boxes were not developed for this project.
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[1] Per NERC “Regional Criteria” means reliability requirements developed by a Regional Entity that are necessary to implement, to augment, or to comply with Reliability Standards, but which are not Reliability Standards.
[2] On October 21, 2010, WECC received a series of Standard Authorization Requests (SARs) requesting review and update of the then-approved INT WECC Criteria. The effort was supported by the Interchange Scheduling and Accounting Subcommittee (ISAS) under the auspice of the Operating Committee. The project was colloquially known as the INT Rewrite Project. On concluding its review, the INT Rewrite Drafting Team (DT) identified a number of WECC Requirements that specified software features and concluded these software specifications were better addressed in a technical document designed for that purpose. As a result, those software specifications were removed from the associated WECC Criteria and drafted into the WECC Interchange Tool Functional Requirements document.