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WestConnect Activities Overview

WestConnect. WestConnect Activities Overview. SWAT Meeting Las Vegas, NV February 16, 2011. WestConnect. Discussion Topics. WestConnect Overview & Membership Virtual Control Area Work Group Activities Wind & Solar Integration Joint Initiatives Regional Pricing Experiment. WestConnect.

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WestConnect Activities Overview

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  1. WestConnect WestConnect Activities Overview SWAT Meeting Las Vegas, NV February 16, 2011

  2. WestConnect Discussion Topics • WestConnect Overview & Membership • Virtual Control Area • Work Group Activities • Wind & Solar Integration • Joint Initiatives • Regional Pricing Experiment

  3. WestConnect WestConnect • Executed Restated MOU Among Transmission Owners (TOs) in the Western Grid – Effective January, 2007 • Purposes: • Continue investigation of feasibility of cost-effective wholesale market enhancements • Work cooperatively with other Western Grid Organizations and market participants • Address seams issues in appropriate forums

  4. WestConnect • Southwest Transmission Cooperative • Transmission Agency of Northern California • Tri-State G & T Association • Tucson Electric Power • Western Area Power Administration • - Rocky Mountain Region • - Desert Southwest Region • Sierra Nevada Region • CRSP Management Office Arizona Public Service El Paso Electric Imperial Irrigation District Nevada Power Company Public Service Colorado Public Service New Mexico Sacramento Municipal Utility District Salt River Project Sierra Pacific Power Company TOTALS Jan. 2010 46,000 MW of Load 32,000 Miles of Transmission Line 7.0 Million Retail Customers Served

  5. WestConnect Accomplishments • Annual ATC Workshop • Disclosure of long-term TTC and potential changes from planned facilities • wesTTrans Common OASIS • Subregional Planning • CATS, SWAT, CCPG and formation of SSPG • Quarterly SPG Coordination Meetings • WECC Seams Issues Process • Development of Annual WestConnect Transmission Plan and Planning Report • Developed Regional Pro Forma Conditional Firm Service Business Practice • WestConnect Regional Pricing Experiment

  6. WestConnect Active Work Groups • Large Generator Interconnection Process WG • Energy Imbalance Service WG • Virtual Balancing Authority Area WG • Regional Planning Management Committee • Regional Pricing Management Committee • Other Activities • Area Control Error (ACE) Diversity Interchange (ADI) • Joint Initiatives

  7. WestConnect Virtual Control Area Three-pronged approach: • ACE Diversity Interchange • Western Wind & Solar Integration Study – will provide analysis of combined balancing area authority operations • Analysis of reserves sharing pool modifications

  8. WestConnect Virtual Control Area • WestConnect TOs participating in the Ace Diversity Interchange (ADI) program • Xcel Energy (PSCO) • SRP • APS • PNM • TEP • NV Energy

  9. ACE Diversity Interchange

  10. What is ADI? • ADI stands for Area Control Error (ACE) Diversity Interchange. • ADI is the pooling of individual Area Control Errors (ACE) to take advantage of control error diversity (sign differences associated with the momentary generation/load imbalances of each control or balancing area).

  11. Benefits of ADI • By pooling ACE, participants are able to: • Reduce control burden on individual control areas through the ADI “equal share” allocation method; • Reduce generator movement; • Reduce sensitivity to intermittent resource output; and, • Improve Control Performance and reduce CPS2 violations.

  12. What ADI is not • An ancillary service; • A process that will impact the terms and conditions of transmission or energy service; • An energy sale nor does it necessitate the purchase of transmission; • A commercial activity; • A tool for making economic dispatch decisions; or, • A burden on other areas. ADI is a reliability tool

  13. ADI Project Implementation • ACE Diversity Interchange Agreement (including the Technical Design) was executed November, 2006. • Operating Group’s goal to “GO LIVE” March 31, 2007 was achieved; due to EMS commitments, Idaho Power Company’s “GO LIVE” date was June, 2007. • On-going discussions regarding ADI (British Columbia stakeholders, CAISO, ColumbiaGrid, FERC, NWPP entities, Northwest Wind Integration Workgroup, PNW Regional Council, Pacific NW Security Coordinator, WECC, WestConnect members, Western Governors’ Association, Utility Wind Integration Group, CAISO, etc.).

  14. Second Phase of ADI • Participating Control Areas include: • Arizona Public Service • Bonneville Power Administration • British Columbia Transmission Corporation (and the Host) • Idaho Power Company • NaturEner • PS New Mexico • Nevada Power • NorthWestern Energy • PacifiCorp – East • PacifiCorp – West • Puget Sound Energy • Salt River Project • Seattle City Light • Sierra Pacific • Tucson Electric • PS Colorado (Xcel) • Expanded evaluation (real-time screen shot) and reporting tools.

  15. Key ADI Design Principles • Reliable operations of ADI assured by suspension protocols, e.g., • Transmission overloads • Directed by Reliability Coordinator • Frequency deviation • Reserve sharing • Participants can suspend or trigger a global suspension, e.g., Idaho Power triggered a global suspension on July 30, 2008 and a global resumption on August 28, 2008. • Suspension defaults to normal (i.e., without ADI) operations; this provides a fail-safe back-up. • Adjacency requirement between/among Participants ensures transmission connectivity.

  16. Reliability Based Control (RBC)

  17. RBC Summary • RBC allows a wider range of operation without negatively impacting reliability, while controlling resources more tightly at times. • Five new Balancing Area standards are under development – BAL-007 thru BAL-011.

  18. RBC Field Trial • On-going since 2008 in the Eastern Interconnection with approximately 40% of BA’s participating, representing 60% of interconnection load. • Began March 1, 2010 in WECC with 75% of BA’s participating, representing 80% of interconnection load. • RBC Field Trial duration is one year, ending February 28, 2011. • NERC will suspend compliance with CPS2 criteria for BA’s participating in the RBC Field Trial. • Compliance with CPS1 criteria is still required. • Compliance with the new BAAL criteria is not required, but any non-compliance must be reported.

  19. RBC Purpose Statements • To maintain Interconnection frequency within predefined frequency limits under all conditions (i.e., normal and abnormal), to manage frequency related issues such as frequency oscillations, instability, and unplanned tripping of load, generation or transmission, that adversely impact the reliability of the Interconnection. • To support corrective action by the BA when its excessive Area Control Error, as determined by this standard, may be contributing to or causing action to be taken to correct an SOL or IROL problem. • To prevent Interconnection frequency excursions of short-duration attributed to the ramping of Interchange Transactions. • To support timely congestion relief by requiring the Balancing Authority to employ corrective load / generation management within a defined time frame when participating in transmission loading relief procedures. • To address the directives of FERC Order 693.

  20. BAL-007 Standard • BAL-007 R1. – ACE may not exceed BA ACE Limit (BAAL) for more than 30 consecutive minutes. During the Field Trial any violation for more than 20 consecutive minutes must be reported and explained. • BAL-007 R2. – Maintain at least 100 % on 12-month rolling average of one-minute CPM. One-minute CPM is similar to the existing CPS1 criteria.

  21. Field Trial Reporting Requirements • Monthly reports submitted to the Standard Development Team (SDT) • Report contains clock-minute averages of ACE, Frequency Error, Actual Frequency, Scheduled Frequency, BA Frequency Bias, BA ACE Limits, Limit Violation Minute Count

  22. EMS Changes • New BA ACE Limit calculation program. • New BA ACE Limit violation alarms. • “ACE exceeds BA ACE limit for 1 minute” • “ACE exceeds BA ACE limit for 10 (or 20) minutes” • “BA ACE limit violation” • Initially, no changes to the AGC control algorithm. • Investigating possible AGC tuning or control algorithm changes.

  23. Pros and Cons • Reduced wear on units assigned to frequency and interchange regulation. • Reduced chance for performance criteria violations. • More severe penalties for performance criteria violations.

  24. WestConnect Western Wind & Solar Integration Study

  25. Revised Study Footprint Control areas: APS El Paso Nevada Power PNM Sierra Pacific SRP Tristate Tucson Xcel WAPA

  26. WestConnect Current Status • Final Report issued May, 2010 • NREL self assessment: Preliminary effort with much more work to do • Additional work in progress: • Working with NOAA to understand value of wind forecasting • Assessing cost & impacts of cycling coal generating units • Assessing dynamic response effects • Benefit/cost analysis • Value of solar thermal storage (focused on CAISO)

  27. WestConnect NREL Wind & Solar StudyContacts and information • Debbie Lew – NREL • 303-384-7037 • debra_lew@nrel.gov • Study Executive Summary: http://www.nrel.gov/wind/systemsintegration/pdfs/2010/wwsis_executive_summary.pdf • Study Final Report: http://www.nrel.gov/wind/systemsintegration/pdfs/2010/wwsis_final_report.pdf

  28. Joint Initiatives Facilitated by: • Columbia Grid • Northern Tier Transmission Group • WestConnect

  29. WestConnect Joint Initiatives Goal • Encourage and facilitate Western Interconnection parties to develop and implement high-value cost-effective regional products • Broader focus than integration of variable generation, but immediate wind and solar integration issues provide significant motivation

  30. JI Work Streams • Existing Efforts • Dynamic Scheduling System (DSS) • Intra-Hour Transmission Scheduling • Intra-Hour Transaction Accelerator Platform (I-TAP)/webExchange • New Effort • FERC VER NOPR Comments/Status Report • ATC MOD Compliance Coordination • Possible New Efforts • Work relating to a Voluntary Capacity Market • Work relating to a Voluntary Energy Imbalance Market • Other 31

  31. New EffortsFERC VER NOPR Comments • JI Facilitators will file a non-positional status report with FERC • Participants can point to Facilitators Comments, as appropriate • Schedule • February 17th - Draft Comments distributed • February 22nd – Comments filed • March 2nd – Deadline for Comments 32

  32. New EffortsATC MOD Compliance Coordination • New Strike Team being formed • Initial meeting on January 27th • Scope work • Firm up participation • Develop contingency plan for April 1 compliance • WestConnect Utilities have requested 18-month extension • Some TSPs planning to comply on April 1 will monitor group for informational purposes 33

  33. Ongoing Efforts - DSS Update • Testing underway • Targeting February “Implementation Date” • Additional training sessions for Participants in March 34

  34. Ongoing Efforts Intra-Hour Transmission Scheduling • TSPS/BAs currently accepting intra-hour schedules NV Energy PacifiCorp BPA PSE PGE Chelan Grant Tacoma Seattle PSCo 35

  35. Standardization • TSPs/BAs working towards 7/1/11 standardized practice • Those already offering intra-hour scheduling • Avista, Idaho Power, NorthWestern Energy, BC Hydro, SRP, other WestConnect providers • CAISO coordinating through dynamic scheduling/pseudo-tie approach • Alberta considering but has some higher priorities 36

  36. Standardization – Step One Requests for new intra-hour e-Tags (INC) can be submitted Requests for intra-hour adjustments to existing e-Tags (INC/DEC) as soon as the TSP or BA establishes sufficient tools/automation (may be after 7/1/11) No transaction limitation (by any party, for any reason, import/export/wheel-through) Intra-hour requests must be submitted between XX:00 and XX:15 for the second half of the current hour 37

  37. Standardization – Step One Intra-hour requests will default to 10-minute duration straddle ramps Intra-hour requests will be for a duration of 30 minutes but will be integrated over the full hour for interchange accounting purposes No bumping (access to intra-hour scheduling is subject to availability on a first-come first-serve basis and the participating TSPs have indicated they will not displace an existing hourly or intra-hourly schedule to "make room" for a subsequent intra-hour request even if that request is utilizing higher priority transmission service) 38

  38. Standardization/Caveats • Focused on intra-hour scheduling opportunities for unanticipated events, NOT going to half-hour scheduling • Relies on more flexible use of existing transmission products (no new intra-hour product) • Requires automation 39

  39. Ongoing Efforts I-TAP/webExchange • Participants include Grant PGE Snohomish PSE Tri-State Seattle WAPA Xcel PowerEx EWEB BPA PNM Avista Tacoma NorthWestern Idaho 40

  40. I-TAP/webExchange • Technical Steering Committee (TSC) formed: • Develop Technical Specification with OATI • Liaison among all ITAP Parties & OATI • Factory testing during product development phase • John Jamieson (PGE) is Chair • Go live implementation mid-2011

  41. I-TAP/webExchange • On track for implementation summer of 2011 • Functional Specifications finalized 12/10 • OATI currently writing code • TSC will review initial results early 2/11 • Testing likely in spring • New subscribers welcome 42

  42. Possible Additional Work • November 19, 2011 Brainstorming Session • Small scale voluntary capacity market/Resource Pool • Identify the functionality, implications, and options as a “proof of concept” tool • Voluntary participants contribute a block of resources into economic dispatch pool and commit to bringing those resources 43

  43. Possible Additional Work • EDT • Get interested participants to discuss implementation issues, might result in a participants agreement as a fundamental starting point • Design options • Contractor options • Solution details, including financing alternatives 44

  44. Possible Additional Work • EIM Strike Team with Information-sharing Role • WestConnect has stakeholder group discussing and sharing information on EIM – this group could be broadened • Add “ghost market” modeling component to I-TAP to see how I-TAP would work if prices cleared through a single dispatch model 45

  45. Possible Additional Work • Continue within-hour transmission scheduling work, taking into account possible implications of VER NOPR • Identify additional ways to improve ability to transact over multiple systems in the same manner 46

  46. Possible Additional Work • Identify whether there are FERC policies that impede within-hour or real-time transactions across multiple systems and seek appropriate modification of such policies (e.g., undesignation of resources – once resources are designated for a system’s use it is difficult to use them to respond to other systems’ issues) 47

  47. DSS Process Overview • The DSS is a communications infrastructure that exchanges dynamic signals via e-Tag and ICCP links • Before the scheduling period, participants will create DYNAMIC type e-Tags reflecting their dynamic schedules. • During the operating hour, webDynamic will use the composite e-Tag data to distribute MW requests to BAs with obligations to requesting participants. • After the scheduling period, webDynamic willupdate the e-Tag with the correct integrated quantity.

  48. Timeline • DSS is scheduled to ‘go live’ early October, 2010 • Moratorium on additional parties joining will be lifted once DSS is operational

  49. WestConnect Joint InitiativesContacts • Products and Services Co-Facilitators Charlie Reinhold (480-215-0299) Kristi Wallis (206-726-1699) • Infrastructure Facilitator Sharon Helms (503-644-6262) • Joint Initiative materials posted on CG website www.columbiagrid.org

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