WECC Reliability Management System

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WECCReliability Management System
Reliability Management System Louise
McCarren WECC CEO

• Louise McCarren
• WECC CEO

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WECC

• One of 10 Members of NERC
• Covers the Western Interconnection
• All or parts of 14 Western States
• British Columbia
• Alberta
• Baja California Mexico
• Voluntary organization

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WECC Mission

• Maintain a reliable electric power system in the
  Western Interconnection
• Support effective competitive power markets
• Assure open and non discriminatory transmission
  access among Members
• Provide a forum for resolving transmission access
  disputes between Members

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WECC RMS

• Developed following industry move to competition
  and 1996 outages
• Contractual arrangement between WECC and
  transmission operators
• Approved by FERC
• Business letter from DOJ
• Covers key reliability requirements
• Enforcement through letter or monetary sanctions
  for noncompliance

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WECC RMS

• Improve compliance until legislation enacted
• Mandatory standards and compliance critical to a
  reliable transmission grid
• Implemented in a phased approach
• 3rd and final phase submitted to Commission with
  a requested effective date of January 1, 2004

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WECC RMS

• 23 of 33 WECC control areas have signed RMS
  agreement
• 88 of load - 83 of generation
• Working to increase participation
• Accountability through RMS data reporting
  reinforces compliance with standards

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Reliability Legislation

• WECC supports reliability legislation and
  mandatory reliability standards
• Provisions important to WECC
• Delegation of authority to conforming regional
  entities
• Deference to Interconnection-wide entities
• Creation of Regional Advisory Bodies
• WECC RMS is only interim solution pending
  reliability legislation