NERC Operating Committee BriefingNRWG

July 25, 2013

Alan BernSr. Director Transmission Grid OperationsTRE Sector Participant

NERC StandingCommittees

Operating Committee(OC)

Planning Committee(PC)

Critical InfrastructureProtection Committee (CIPC)

Reliability IssuesSteering Committee (RISC)

Compliance & CertificationCommittee (CCC)

Personnel CertificationGovernance Committee (PCGC)

Randy Jones - Calpine

Alan Bern - Oncor Blake Williams - CPS

David Grubbs – Garland Power

NERC Committees

Mission

The OC and its subgroups will be actively engaged in promoting operational reliability excellence. Recognized as industry experts, the OC will be sought for expertise in Training and Guidance Documents and assessments of system events and causal

analyses, as well as standards recommendations, reviews, interpretations, and assessments. OC focus will be centered on operating and maintaining the BES within

secure limits during the operational planning and real-time periods on an actual and projected post-contingent basis to preserve the efficacy of the BES.

Vision

The vision of the NERC OC is to strive for continent-wide BES operational reliability excellence and seek improvements to reliability through standards, reliability guidelines, communications (reporting, information, advice and understanding), policy and priority

setting, tools identification, training and assessment of the real-time BES reliability.

DRAFT

The OC supports the NERC reliability mission by executing the policies, directive and assignments of the BOT and advising the BOT on operating reliability matters …

• Assess, analyze, and report on the BES operating reliability performance

• Coordinate operating reliability matters with RROs and other organizations

• Enable the reliable operation of interconnected BES by facilitating information exchange and coordination of among reliability service organizations

• Assist the development and implementation of Standards for the reliable operation of BES.

• Advise the Compliance and Certification functions on operating reliability matters

• Advise the NERC staff in the provision of education and training resources

• Assist the CIP program on matters related to operating reliability

• Advise the Dispute Resolution function as needed

NERC OC Members

 

Votes Member(s)Investor Owned Utility 2 Entergy Services, AEP

State / Municipal Utility 2 Omaha Public Power, Orlando Utilities CommissionCooperative Utility 2 Tri-State G&T Assn, Assoc. Electric Cooperative

Federal or Provincial Utility / Federal Power Marketing Adm 4 Hydro One, TVA, BC Hydro, Hydro QuebecTransmission Dependent Utility 2 Lincoln Electric System, Alabama Municipal Electric AuthorityMerchant Electricity Generator 2 Constellation Energy, Open

Electricity Marketer 2 Open, OpenLarge End-Use Electricity Customer 2 ELCON, Open

Small End-Use Customer 2 American Wind Energy Assn, IntellibindIndependent System Operator / Regional Transmission Entity 2 SPP, MISO

1/7 TRE - Alan Bern (Oncor)1/7 FRCC - Tampa Electric Co1/7 MRO - Western Area Power Adm1/7 NPCC - Northest Power Coordinating Council1/7 RFC - Reliability First Corp1/7 SERC - Kansas City Power and Light Co1/7 WECC - Northwest Power Pool Co

State Government 2 Open, Open

Officers 2 Chairman - Jim Castle (New York ISO), Vice Chairman - TBDU.S. Federal Government 0 FERC, Open

Canadian Federal Government 0 OpenProvincial Government 0 Regie de l' energie

Regional Entity Organizations(RROs)

Colleen Frosch

Michael Moon

(NERC)

Subgroup Status Reports Event Analysis Subcommitteeo EMS Lessons Learned

Cold Weather Guideline Standards Committee updateo Cold Weather Preparedness SAR

Approve PJM and MISO Reliability Plans Southwest Outage Report

Recommendationso WECC Recommended NERC activities, real-time tools (phase

angle), protection system loadability, etc.

Operating Committee 2013

RISCo OC assessment of RISC prioritieso Ability to respond to RISC, SC and BOT priorities

PRC-001 Guideline Discussiono Each shall be familiar with purpose and limitations of protection

system schemes applied in its area

State of Reliability Report Geomagnetic Disturbance Task Forceo Templates

Gas / Electric Dependencies Coordinate Interchange

Operating Committee 2013

Strategic Plan Updateo ERO Plan (2013 – 2016)

#1 Clear Standards #3 Culture of Compliance (share/develop procedures/programs) #4 Reliability Risks (HPI, Protection systems, Situational

Awareness) #6 Culture of Reliability Excellence (assist ERO with being

leading source for reliability information)

o OC Plan Task Force assigned to overhaul plan and focus on true priorities

and tasks of Committee August meeting in Denver

Operating Committee 2013

2013 – 2016 Goals (DRAFT)

• Proactively address prioritizing NERC Reliability Standards

• Utilize EA processes to share lessons learned and identify emerging cause code trends to improve reliability of BES

• Focus on impact of protection schemes on operations and recommend improvements in communications, training and Standards enhancement and development

• Improve the depth of NERC reports to include Operations perspective

• Due to changing nature of industry, investigate generation resource mix and identify improvements in operations associated with integration of new resources

Questions