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Variable Generation Subcommittee

Variable Generation Subcommittee. Michelle Mizumori TEPPC Meeting September 17, 2009. Topics. Background Work Groups Marketing Work Group Planning Work Group Operating Work Group Technology Work Group Next Steps. Background. VG issue survey in December Kickoff call January 15

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Variable Generation Subcommittee

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  1. Variable Generation Subcommittee Michelle Mizumori TEPPC Meeting September 17, 2009

  2. Topics • Background • Work Groups • Marketing Work Group • Planning Work Group • Operating Work Group • Technology Work Group • Next Steps

  3. Background • VG issue survey in December • Kickoff call January 15 • DOE Grant approved • Work Plan approved by VGS July 27 and by JGC on August 11 • Work Groups currently assigning teams for Work Plan activities

  4. Marketing Workgroup Update • Chair – Paul Arnold (ColumbiaGrid) • Workplan Activities • Market mechanisms for Ancillary Services • Product Codes used in scheduling VG • Effect of REC market on VG development, marketing, reliability • NAESB activities

  5. Operating Workgroup Update • Chairs - Bart McManus (BPA)and Grant Rosenblum (CAISO) • Workplan Activities • Assess methodologies for determining reserve requirements to facilitate reliable integration of VG • Inventory VG performance standards and propose modifications where gaps exist • Investigate mechanisms for better utilizing resource flexibility • Inventory forecasting practices • Quantify the benefits of BA consolidation

  6. Planning Workgroup Update • Chair – Ross Guttromson (PNNL) • Workplan Activities • Participate in variable generator model validation • Review the NERC IVGTF report and participate in relevant NERC activities • Investigate transmission capacity assignment for VG resources • Inventory best practices and provide recommendations to aid in the standardizing and validating of planning criteria and methodologies and interconnection standards • Provide input to transmission adequacy analyses for accommodating the integration of VG • Create a centralized database for VG information • Develop a VG-heavy case for TSS and SRWG to use in analyzing dynamics related issues

  7. Technology Workgroup Update • Chair – Len Dorr (First Solar) • Draft Workplan Activities • Investigate performance requirements for VG technologies • Evaluate the impact of technology cost changes on resource allocation and transmission planning • Identify complementary technologies to aid in the integration of VG • Storage • Inverters • Communications and Measurement • Smart Grid

  8. Next Steps • Work Plan activity teams provide first deliverables in late fall • Establish details of scope for grant studies • Existing grant • PNNL/NREL funding • Next meetings • Work Groups – November 16-17 • VGS – December 1

  9. Questions Michelle Mizumori Director of Market-Operations Interface (360) 213-2675 mmizumori@wecc.biz

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