Standards Review Subcommittee Update

2008 Review

November 4, 2008DRAFT

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Standards Review Subcommittee 2008 Objectives

• In December 2007, the 2008 Annual Plan had the following items assigned to the SRS.– Review the need to develop business

practice standards to support Operate Within Limits (R03017)

– Make incremental enhancements to OASIS as an outgrowth of the NAESB March 29, 2005 conference on the future of OASIS (R05026)

• The SRS was also directed to review the NAESB Reliability Standards Development Plan

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Annual Plan Accomplishments

Description Due Comp. Comments

Review the need to develop business practice standards to support Operate Within Limits (R03017)

2nd Qtr 1st Qtr

Make incremental enhancements to OASIS as an outgrowth of the NAESB March 29, 2005 conference on the future of OASIS (R05026)

2008 1st Qtr EC determined at February meeting that no additional work was required by the SRS.

Review Market System Back-Up existing language and review of existing back-up language

3rd Qtr SRS requested this item be moved from provisional items list.

Provide complementary business practice standards to support Coordinate Operations Standards Authorization Request assigned to NERC (R03014)

3rd Qtr Assigned to the SRS after the August EC Meeting

Review and evaluate whether to cutoff or put a size limit on the entities for which the standards apply

3rd Qtr SRS requested this item be moved from provisional items list.

Investigate and review possible modifications to the WGQ Intraday Nominations, Confirmation Scheduling, and Gas Day standards, including possible standards for coordination of wholesale electric and wholesale gas scheduling. (R03031, R03031 revised, Interim Report, Final Report)

3rd Qtr Assigned to the SRS after the August EC Meeting

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Accomplishments • Reviewed the NERC Reliability Standards

Development Plan– Provided feedback to NERC on projects that

should be coordinated with NAESB– Reviewed NERC Standards Development Plan

and identified Annual Plan Item to be included in 2009 Annual Plan.

• Addressed requests from other Subcommittees to review NERC Standards

• Developed SRS Scope of Work Statement• Created SRS Interactive List Serv• Created the SRS NERC Activity Tracking

Report

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Submitted Comments on Recommendations• WEQ-001 changes for Rebid of Partial

Service, Preconfirmation Priority, and Group 2: Metrics; Redispatch Cost Posting

• ATC/TTC Narrative• WEQ-001 changes for “ATC Information Link”

on OASIS and TTC and ATC Methodologies and Values

• Ancillary Services Definitions• Conditional Firm• Existing Transmission Commitments• Postbacks and Counterflows• Time and Inadvertent Management• Continuous Support of TLR Process

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