NAESB Update Kathy Anderson October 2015 MIC Meeting.

NAESB Update

Kathy AndersonOctober 2015 MIC Meeting

August 18, 2015 WEQ EC Meeting

• Request was to develop, modify, or delete business practice standards to support Request R14002 (NERC Project 2012-05 ATC Revisions (MOD A))

• NAESB WEQ preserving NERC rejected ATC standards


• The Business Practice Subcommittee’s recommendation contained two controversial standards, as follows:

• XXX-1.4 Each Transmission Service Provider shall not grant a request for Firm Transmission Service on an ATC Path that serves as an interface with another BA if the net of the Firm Transmission Service transactions into and out of the Transmission Service Provider’s BA would exceed the sum of the Facility Ratings of Tie Facilities to which Transmission Service Providers mutually agree they have the right to use the Tie Facilities that comprise the ATC Path, between the two BAs.


• XXX-1.4.1 Each Transmission Service Provider shall limit the Interchange Schedule (both Firm and non-Firm) of the reservations on an ATC path into and out of Transmission Service Provider’s BA on an interface with another BA such that the net Interchange Schedule does not exceed the sum of the Facility Ratings of Tie Facilities to which Transmission Service Providers mutually agree they have the right to use the Tie Facilities that comprise the ATC Path, between the two BAs.


• The Independent Grid Operator (IGO) segment does not like these two standards and tried to get them removed. That attempt failed, so a compromise was crafted.

• Recommendation finally passed by the EC with agreement to form a new EC task force to address more fully these two standards.


• EC also approved eliminating the masking of TSRs’ source and sink when requested status reaches any final state (a.k.a. denied, withdrawn refused, displaced, invalid, declined, annulled, retracted, or confirmed).


• Approved a “No Action” recommendation regarding 2005 standard request asking for a standard that would eliminate the disparity of posting “sensitive” information. (CIS and CSS worked on PKI standards which have resolved this, thus no actions)


• Develop standards to support the Transmission Provider right to reassess the availability of “conditional firm” - the Transmission Provider may elect to waive or extend the right to perform a Biennial Reassessment.


• To be consistent with ¶51 of FERC Order No. 890-A, added TFC, FAFC, and NFAFC values to the “System_Attribute” data element of the NAESB Standard WEQ-003: OASIS S&CP Data Dictionaries

• To be consistent with ¶51 of FERC Order No. 890-A, added TFC, FAFC, and NFAFC values to the “System_Attribute” data element of the NAESB Standard WEQ-003: OASIS S&CP Data Dictionaries.

• Corrected WEQ 013-2.6.7.2 for Resale off OASIS by eliminating the “no later than 24 hours prior” to confirming requirement.– The Assignee must execute a service agreement with the

Transmission Provider that will govern the provision of reassigned service no later than twenty-four hours prior to the Assignee confirming the Resale on OASIS. the scheduling deadline applicable for the commencement of the reassigned service. The Transmission Provider may establish a blanket service agreement to include Resale transactions.


• Approved modifications to WEQ-004 Coordinate Interchange Business Practice Standards to require the tagging of Intra-Balancing Authority transactions.

• This was NERC INT-011-1.1 – LSE issue


• Approved “no action” recommendation regarding the modification of WEQ standards to address XML vulnerability exploits.– CISS and CSS - no known vulnerabilities to fix


• Approved Minor Correction to NAESB WEQ Business Practice Standards Version 003.1, WEQ-001, WEQ-002, and WEQ-013 OASIS, Version 2.0 - To change the wording of the phrases: – “shall have the right to”, – “shall be allowed to”, – “shall be permitted, but is not required, to”, – “shall be permitted to”, and – “shall have the ability to”

• to “may”, along with other consistency changes.


• One conference call– Evident that non-consensus still exists

• Still waiting for FERC staff guidance• Earlier this month, NAESB received word that internal to

FERC, consensus on how to handle the conditional parent scenario has not been reached and was unlikely based on our informal request.

• As such, NAESB staff and WEQ leadership will proceed with preparing a filing of Version 3.1 of the WEQ standards. It is intended that the filing include a concise request for guidance regarding the conditional parent scenario.

NAESB WEQ Firm Redirects from Conditional Parents Task Force Update

• Continued work on Competition and Preemption (split into LTerm & STerm)• Some rework expected once FERC accepts the

Entergy/Dynergy modification in the 3.1 publication• Working on standards to support a “merger” or

“consolidation” function for firm TSRs

NAESB OASIS SubcommitteeUpdate

• Market Operator as an unique Code-Roll• Will require changes to:• EIR• WEQ-004• e-Tag

• Collecting next round of e-Tag changes

NAESB CISS Update

• Western Interconnection needs representation at NAESB

• NAESB standards find their way into your tariffs

NAESB StandardsMembership

NAESB Update Kathy Anderson October 2015 MIC Meeting.

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