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EIA Reporting Proposal:Balancing Authority

Hourly Operating Information

William BoothSenior Electricity Advisor

EIA Stakeholder PresentationJuly 26, 2012

Overview

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• EIA’s mission and authority

• Reporting requirement review process

• Major new electricity industry policy issues

• Proposed balancing authority reporting requirement

• Next steps

EIA Mission and Authority

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Mission

•The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy.

•EIA collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

•EIA is the Nation's premier source of energy information and, by law, its data, analyses, and forecasts are independent of approval by any other officer or employee of the United States Government.

EIA Mission and Authority

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Authority

• The Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. §§ 761 et seq.) and the DOE Organization Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. §§ 7101 et seq.) require the EIA to carry out a centralized, comprehensive, and unified energy information program.

• This program collects, evaluates, assembles, analyzes, and disseminates information on energy resource reserves, production, demand, technology, and related economic and statistical information.

Reporting Requirement Review Process

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Seek Comment

The EIA, as part of its effort to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. §§ 3501, et seq.), provides the general public and other Federal agencies with opportunities to comment on collections of energy information conducted by EIA.

OMB Approval

EIA seeks approval for information collections by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under Section 3507(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. (OMB Clearance)

Reporting Requirement Review Process

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Proposal timeline for 2014-2016 OMB clearance

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Major New Electricity Industry Policy Issues

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• In addition to the 3-year OMB renewals, EIA considers major policy developments in the industry to assess changes to its reporting requirements.

• Some current major electric industry issues:– Integration of renewable generation

– Implementation of demand response

– Integration of new types of facilities, such as storage

– The advent of significant numbers of electric vehicles

• These issues present significant challenges to electric system real-time operations and involve numerous Federal and State laws and regulations.

Major New Electricity Industry Policy Issues

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EIA’s Role

• Policymakers and the public lack an understanding about basic electric system operations:

– Electric systems balance supply, demand and interchange on a continuous basis.

– Demand and certain supply vary significantly over a day.

– The challenge electric systems face in forecasting demand and ensuring adequate supply resources are available.

– The extent and direction of the flow of electricity among electric systems.

• However, EIA lacks basic information about electric system operations needed to illuminate current electricity industry issues.

Proposed Balancing AuthorityReporting Requirement

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Require balancing authorities to post on a publicly available internet site hourly-integrated operating statistics for the day on the next day:

•net generation,

•net energy for load (system demand),

•day-ahead demand forecast, and

•actual interchange with each directly interconnected balancing authority area.

Proposed Balancing AuthorityReporting Requirement

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Feedback so far:

• “It would not be difficult to provide the requested data.”

• Commercially sensitive

• Provisional data/data not available so quickly

• Duplicative reporting (FERC 714, Reliability Coordinators)

• Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII)

• What is EIA going to use it for?/Misuse of the data

Proposed Balancing AuthorityReporting Requirement

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EIA use of hourly forecast and actual demand data:

From: EIA’s Today In Energy Article, July 12, 2012.

Proposed Balancing AuthorityReporting Requirement

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EIA use of actual interchange data:

From: EIA’s Today In Energy Article, December 12, 2011.

Proposed Balancing AuthorityReporting Requirement

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Optional proposal:

Instead of posting today’s hourly demand the next day, require hourly posting of demand soon after the hour.

This will provide comprehensive coverage of current U.S. electric system conditions.

On ERCOT’s Home Page

Next Steps

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• We encourage and appreciate informal comments.

• Please send them to ERS2014@eia.gov.