Unscheduled Flow Administrative Subcommittee Report

1. Unscheduled Flow Administrative Subcommittee Report Robin Chung October 8, 2014 Western Electricity Coordinating Council

2. UFAS fully seated at nine members • Next meeting dates are tentatively scheduled for January 27th & 28th in Salt Lake City • USF Task Force on January 27th • UFAS on January 28th Membership and Meetings Western Electricity Coordinating Council

3. UFAS recommending 1995 caps be lifted for UFMP Qualified Device compensation Interim proposal to collect full amount that WECC members have committed to compensate the Device Operators for their incurred costs. Interim solution while a permanent modification to UFMP Assessments is developed Lifting 1995 Caps Western Electricity Coordinating Council

4. The WECC Member Advisory Committee voted to support this resolution: • Recommended that WECC membership support lifting the 1995 caps, allowing for Phase Shifter Device Owners to receive full compensation. • Excerpt: “The MAC requests that each member support this initiative, and direct your OC representatives to vote in favor of lifting the cap when the vote is taken at the October OC meeting.” MAC Support Western Electricity Coordinating Council

5. Resolved, the OC approves the following: • For the USF Assessment Calculation Methodology, UFAS will remove the 1995 cap on the Qualified Device Compensation to allow full compensation to the QD owners. UFAS and the USFTF will continue to pursue a permanent updated methodology. UFAS Motion Western Electricity Coordinating Council

6. Approved by FERC on May 16, 2014 • Implementation upon completion of applicable webSAS changes • Must report back to FERC one year from implementation • Peak Reliability now holds webSAS contract, UFAS will be involved in testing • Optimistically, implementation at beginning of 2015 Guideline Implementation Plan Western Electricity Coordinating Council

7. Continued participation in Peak Reliability's ECC project Monitoring CAISO/PAC EIM impacts on USF Education on current USF zone methodology Other Meeting Activities Western Electricity Coordinating Council

8. Path 23 is up for Disqualification Review • Tri-State Gladstone PST seeking qualification • Tri-State provided studies stating its device met UFMP Qualifications • WECC Staff needs to independently verify device meets requirements • Peak Reliability needs to incorporate PST into coordinated operations plan • UFAS will recommend approval Path and Device Qualification Status Western Electricity Coordinating Council

9. 230 kV Phase Shifter is fully owned and operated by Tri-State Generation and Transmission, Inc. Positioned on Colorado-New Mexico Interconnection Project Angle range from -60 to +60 degrees with 33 tap positions Commercial operation on November 10, 2014 Gladstone PST Western Electricity Coordinating Council

10. Resolved: That the Operating Committee accept the recommendation of UFAS that the Tri-State application to include the Gladstone PST as a Qualified Device in the Unscheduled Flow Mitigation Plan be approved by the Operating Committee. Proposed OC Motion on Gladstone PST Western Electricity Coordinating Council

11. Plan Year 20 (CY2014) activity as of September 29, 2014 has 1,874 hours of Coordinated Operations of Phase Shifters (COPS) with 804 hours of contributing schedule curtailments • Total of 105,224 MWhs of Unscheduled Flow relief was provided by curtailments • 65 hours of competing path usage to date, Primarily Path 30, Path 36 and Path 66 Operating Statistics Western Electricity Coordinating Council