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WECC Standards Activities All three unanimously approved at the September Board meeting The Two WECC Regional VAR Standards were posted for 45-day NERC public comment - 8/7/14 – 9/22/14 No negative comments received Next step is to work with NERC to file the revisions with FERC for approval 3 W ESTERN E LECTRICITY C OORDINATING C OUNCIL
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W E S T E R N E L E C T R I C I T Y C O O R D I N A T I N G C OU N C I L
Standards Update
Merrill Brimhall Staff Engineer
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W E S T E R N E L E C T R I C I T Y C O O R D I N A T I N G C OU N C I L
WECC Standards Activities
• Recent Ballot Results:– WECC-0105 VAR-002-WECC-2 (AVR)
• Quorum 83.1% - Approval 100%
– WECC-0105 VAR-501-WECC-2 (PSS)• Quorum 83.5% - Approval 100%
– WECC-0106 INT-018-WECC-CRT-1 (E-Tag Codes)• Quorum 82.4% - Approval 97.2%
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WECC Standards Activities
• All three unanimously approved at the September Board meeting
• The Two WECC Regional VAR Standards were posted for 45-day NERC public comment - 8/7/14 – 9/22/14
• No negative comments received • Next step is to work with NERC to file the
revisions with FERC for approval
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WECC Standards Activities• WECC-0101 – Generator Validation Policy Conversion
– Proposal to lower the applicable facility thresholds in the Western Interconnection for generator testing and validation identified in the recently approved NERC MOD standards.
– Proposal to modify the periodicity of validation.
– Would become a Regional Variance to the NERC Standards
– Closer to current WECC Policy
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WECC Standards Activities
• WECC-0107 – PSS Design and Performance– RPIC assignment to review document appropriate
categorization
– Control Work Group identified several PSS documents to consider for inclusion in standards
– Drafting Team proposing changes to VAR-501-WECC-2 that would maintain the requirement to have PSS in service and add tuning and installation requirements
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WECC Standards Activities
• Two new Regional Criteria projects
– WECC-0108 – Modification of INT-021-WECC-CRT-1.3, WIT Check Out Confirmation
– WECC-0110 – Modification of INT-011-WECC-CRT-2, Ten Minute Recallable e-Tag Functionality for Reserves
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NERC Standards Activities
• Project 2014-03 Revisions to TOP/IRO Standards– Most recent ballot closed on September 19
• All six IRO standards passed• Two of Three TOP standards passed• TOP-001-3 only received 48.73% Weighted Segment
Approval• Two new definitions were approved
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NERC Standards Activities
• BAL-002-2 – Addresses the 2009 NWPP Request for
Interpretation– Ballot window closed 10/2/2014
• PRC-006-2 UFLS– Minor revisions to address FERC Order– Balloted 9/29 – 10/8
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NERC Standards Activities
• Upcoming Ballots in October– TPL-007-1 GMD 10/1-10– Revised Definition of RAS 10/3-14– VAR-002 Dispersed Generation Revisions 10/7-16– CIP Version 5 revisions 10/8-17– EOP-011-1 Emergency Operations 10/10-20– PRC-002-2 Disturbance Monitoring 10/10-21– PRC-004 Dispersed Generation Revisions 10/10-22
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WECC and NERC Standards Activities
• All current WECC project information is available on the WECC Under Development website page. http://www.wecc.biz/Standards/Development/Pages/default.aspx
• NERC Standards Under Development http://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Pages/Standards-Under-Development.aspx
• If you wish to receive announcements related to WECC Standards Development, send a note to [email protected] asking to be added to the WECCSTDS distribution list