Western Electricity Coordination Council

							     Western Electricity Coordination Council
                          Operating Committee Meeting
                                June 26-27, 2008
                                 Spokane, WA
                                 Voting Results



1.      Motion:

               To approve the Reliability Coordination Plan with editing to clarify
               references to an RC being to an individual coordinator or the
               coordinator office and a modification of replacing section 2.2.1 with the
               following language from the WECC Standards of Conduct document:

               “WECC RCOs and individual RC employees shall be independent and
               maintain functional separation from all WECC employees involved in
               the WECC Compliance Program. All exchanges of information between
               the WECC Compliance Program and the WECC RCO’s shall be fully
               documented and such documentation shall be preserved for the purpose
               of auditing by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and
               by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission”


      Explanation: The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) Reliability
      Coordinator Plan describes the Reliability Coordinator requirements implemented to
      ensure the reliable operation of the Bulk Electric System (BES) within the WECC
      Region. This plan replaces the WECC Regional Reliability Plan dated June 5, 2007,
      and it has been reviewed and updated to address the changes in the WECC
      Reliability Coordinator with operations moved to the Loveland and Vancouver
      centers.


        Result: PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

2.      Motion:

               The pre-scheduling calendar be adopted with the exception of a
               proposed pre-scheduling holiday around the WECC schedulers meeting.

        Explanation: the 2009 Pre-schedule calendar was created by ISAS by following
        the pre-schedule guidelines with the exception of the addition of scheduling
        around the Spring WECC schedulers meeting held in April, 2009. The ISAS vote
        on the calendar was unanimous. The purpose of the pre-schedule calendar


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     guidelines is to identify and establish WECC pre-schedule holidays, establish a
     common method of pre-scheduling holidays based on the day of the week they
     fall on and recognize new month transactions for pre-scheduling. ISAS also
     included a pre-schedule holiday during the WECC schedulers meeting. Attendees
     requested it since the meeting is hosted by ISAS and it maximizes attendance
     allowing schedulers from small shops to attend.


     VOTING CLASS               YES               NO              ABSTAIN
     TRANSMISSION
                                 22                 2                  1
     PROVIDERS
     TRANSMISSION
                                  9                 6                  2
     CUSTOMERS
     STATE and
                                  0                 0                  0
     PROVINCIAL
     TOTALS                      31                 8                  3


     Result: PASSED

     Minority Opinion:
        • There is benefit to scheduling around the WECC schedulers meeting. The
            schedulers meeting offers discussion on business practices, training and
            opportunity to meet people in the industry.
        • Due to small staff, eliminating the WECC schedulers meeting causes
            staffing constraints; entities will be shorthanded and cannot finish the
            work
        • One member was in support of eliminating the WECC schedulers meeting
            but wanted to send the calendar back to the ISAS to find more
            opportunities to reduce the number of pre-schedule days
        • One member expressed that the scheduling around the WECC scheduler’s
            meeting is not a big deal from a reliability respective since the schedulers
            meetings is not scheduled around weekends
        • As a seven day shop they don’t see the need for this

3.   Motion:

            To approve the WECC OTS training proposal


     Explanation: The Operations Training Subcommittee (OTS) proposal focuses
     on re-affirming ownership of the WECC training and education program in this
     changing industry environment in some of the following areas:
         • Participating in NERC/WECC committees
         • Managing WECC instructors and overseeing new or improved operator
             courses


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        •   Managing vendors
        •   Coordinating regional and sub-regional restoration exercises
        •   Managing the annual training budget and coordinating annual events
            seminars
        •   Managing NERC accreditation, compliance and an array of reports to
            various entities


     Result: PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

4.   Motion:

            To approve the PacifiCorp February 14, 2008 Detailed Disturbance
            Report.


     Explanation: On February 14, 2008, at approximately 09:12:30 MST, the
     PacifiCorp East (PACE) Huntington Unit No. 1 345/21-kV No. 1-1 Generator
     Step Up (GSU) Transformer deluge system activated and approximately three
     minutes later, at 09:15:30.94 MST, a phase-to-ground fault occurred on the 345-
     kV bushing of the Huntington Unit No.1 GSU transformer. Approximately 160
     milliseconds later, at 09:15:31.10 MST, the fault evolved into a multi-phase-to-
     ground fault. The 345-kV transformer bushing fault was within the 345-kV Tie
     Line 1 differential relay zone of protection. However, a (HEA-61) multi-contact
     lockout relay mechanically failed to operate, preventing the tripping of the two
     GSU 345-kV breakers. The failure of this lockout relay to operate also prevented
     the local Breaker Failure Initiation (BFI) to operate causing the local event to
     become an area wide disturbance. Four 345-kV transmission lines into the
     Huntington Substation subsequently relayed by remote backup line protection to
     clear the fault, which resulted in an extended depressed voltage in the area and de-
     energizing of the station, tripping Huntington Units No.1 and No. 2 and dropping
     40 MW of load connected locally at the substation. Severe voltage depression
     during the disturbance caused additional generator tripping to occur at
     PacifiCorp’s Hunter and Lakeside Generating Plants, and at the Florida Power &
     Light (FPL) Wyoming Wind Energy Project. The total generation loss in the
     PACE Balancing Authority Area was 2,795 MW. System frequency initially
     declined to 59.76 Hz and recovered to 59.90 Hz. in approximately one minute.

     Result: PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

5.   Motion:

            To approve the WECC Event Reporting Procedure

     Explanation: The WECC Event Reporting Procedure is necessary to meet the
     requirement R1 in NERC standard EOP-004-1 that requires the Regional


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     Reliability Organization to establish and maintain a Regional reporting procedure
     to facilitate preparation of preliminary and final disturbance reports. The
     procedure was revised to align the reporting requirements with the NERC EOP-
     004-1 standard. Reference to compliance with any NERC standards has been
     removed from the checklists.

     Result: PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

6.   Motion:

            If Path 20 does not call for any hours of relief by September 15, the Path
            is disqualified as of that date


     Explanation: The review of the qualified Path 20 by the Unscheduled Flow
     Administrative Subcommittee (UFAS) determined that the path has not called for
     Unscheduled Flow (USF) relief in the past three years and had called for relief
     only once (for one hour) in the year prior to the three years. The majority opinion
     at UFAS was that the topology of the system in the region near the path has
     changed with the addition of the Monument phase shifter and additional
     generators installed in the PACE Balancing Area. However, the Path Operator
     strongly believes that the expected high hydro generation from the Northwest this
     summer will have a significant affect on the path but the statement was not
     supported by any study work. Due to the Path Operators expectation that there
     will be loop flow loading from the Northwest runoff, UFAS voted to make a
     conditional recommendation to the Operating Committee that Path 20 be
     disqualified and removed form the list of Qualified Transfer Paths as of
     September 15th, 2008 if none of the criteria necessary for retaining qualification
     have been met by that date.

     Result: PASSED UNANIMOUSLY

7.   Motion:
            Close out WIT phase 2 by December 31, 2008.

     Explanation: During discussions at the Operating Committee meeting it was
     noted by members there were several unresolved issues relating to the Western
     Interchange Tool (WIT). There are specific functionalities associated with WIT
     Phase 2 that have not been completed such as NERC Inadvertent Reporting, Area
     Interchange Error Surveys (AIE) and Bubble Diagram Report. Due to this,
     members have to use other parallel tools subsequently incurring double costs. The
     OC agreed that outstanding issues needed to be identified and resolved before the
     end of 2008.

     Result: PASSED UNANIMOUSLY




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