Transcript 4th Quarter 2012 - Standards and Registration Update

Standards, Registration
and Certification Report
Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
STANDARDS
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
Approve Reliability Standards Committee 2013
Officers (VOTE)
● Chair – Brenda Hampton, EFH Luminant
 Brenda was Vice Chair/Acting Chair of RSC in
2012.
 Brenda is currently Senior Project Manager,
Regulatory Policy for Energy Future Holdings
(EFH), where she is involved in a variety of
regulatory activities for Luminant and other EFH
entities.
● Vice Chair – Andrew Gallo, Austin Energy
 Andrew was Chair of NSRS in 2012.
 He currently serves as Director, Reliability
Compliance for Austin Energy, where he oversees
compliance efforts for FERC, NERC and ERCOT
reliability requirements.
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
NERC Standards Review Subcommittee Officers
for 2012
● Chair – Lisa Martin, Austin Energy
 Lisa is the Transmission Service Compliance
Program Manager for Austin Energy. She works to
ensure compliance with non-CIP NERC Standards
relating to transmission operations.
● Vice Chair – Daniela Hammons, CenterPoint
Energy
 Daniela is the Manager of Policy and Compliance
for CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC.,
where she oversees implementation of the
company’s internal compliance program and other
activities related to regulatory policy and
compliance.
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
Regional Standard – Status and Path Forward
● Ballot conducted February 1-15 – PASSED
 Ballot passed with 80% segment-weighted
affirmative vote (67% required to pass)
 22 Entities Voted (plus 12 abstentions)
• Abstentions were from generation companies and
their affiliated registered entities
● RSC will Approve Ballot Results
● Texas RE Board Approval (April 2013)
● Submit to NERC/FERC (~May 2013)
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
Regional Standard BAL-001-TRE-1
● Primary Frequency Response in the ERCOT
Region
 Requires ERCOT to maintain the Interconnection
Frequency Response at an acceptable level
 Requires Generator Owners to apply specified
Governor settings and to provide Frequency
Response from individual units
 Provides objective performance metrics to assess
compliance by individual generators
● A Field Trial was conducted to demonstrate
and test the individual unit Frequency
Response requirements and measures
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
Other Standards Activities
● The Texas RE NERC Standards Review Subcommittee
(NSRS) continues to meet every few weeks to discuss
issues of interest to our Region.
● Texas RE regularly votes in NERC standards ballots,
based on evaluation of posted drafts by Texas RE experts.
 We file comments as needed to explain negative votes and
to provide our perspective.
● Texas RE staff actively participates in NERC Standards
Committee and related activities.
 NERC Standard Quality Review teams
 Paragraph 81 Working Group
 Cold Weather Event Working Group
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
Current NERC Standards Activities
● There are currently a number of high-profile
NERC projects:
 Major Revision of NERC’s Standards Development
Procedures and Practices
 Addressing recommendations from the 2011 Cold
Weather Event Report
 Bulk Electric System Definition – Phase 2
● Major Projects Completed in 2012
 Paragraph 81 – retire requirements that do not
support reliability
 BES Definition
 CIP Version 5
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
REGISTRATION &
CERTIFICATION
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013
Work Completed in 2012
● Completed TOP Entity Certifications
 Denton Municipal Electric
 TMPA
 Reviewed Several Control Center Moves
● 54 Registration Actions
 Registrations, Retirements, Revisions
 Also processed annual CFR addendums and
revisions
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February 26, 2013
2013 Projects
● CREZ TOP Entity Certifications
 Wind Energy Transmission Texas (WETT)
 Sharyland Utilities
● “Bulk Electric System” (BES) Definition
Implementation
 Administer Exception Process
 Registration issues
● Monitor Proposed CFR Revisions
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Board of Directors Meeting
February 26, 2013