Industry Webinar PER and VAR Updates Jordan Mallory, Standards Developer Specialist Soo Jin Kim, Standards Developer PER and VAR Industry Webinar July 31, 2013
Industry Webinar PER and VAR Updates
Jordan Mallory, Standards Developer Specialist
Soo Jin Kim, Standards Developer
PER and VAR Industry Webinar
July 31, 2013
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Administrative Items
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• Development Process and Informal Efforts
• Project 2010-01 – PER-005
• Project 2013-04 – VAR-001 and VAR-002
Agenda
Development Process and
Informal Efforts
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Standards Revision Process
• August 2012 NERC Board of Trustees Meeting
FERC commissioners urged the industry to focus on creating a more efficient standards development process
NERC CEO focused on revamping the standards process for more efficiency and efficacy
NERC Board issued a resolution instructing the SPIG, MRC, SC, NERC staff and industry stakeholders to reform its standards program (November 2012)
Old Standards Process (1 to 3 years)
Revised Standards Process (Target: less than 1 year)
SAR – 30 day Comment
Standard Drafting Team
Formed
Informal Comment
Period – 30 days
Formal Comment Period - 30
day s
Formal Comment and Initial Ballot –
45 day comment
period
Multiple Successive Ballot – 30
days
Recirculation Ballot – 10
days
NERC Board Adoption
Filing with Regulatory
Bodies
Informal Development
SAR and Pro forma standard – 45-day
comment period and ballot
SDT Formed
Recirculation Ballot NERC Board Adoption Filing with Regulatory
Bodies
Resolving issues starts early
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• Identifies issues and determine possible resolution(s)
• Drafts pro forma standard(s)
Technical drafters Legal
Compliance FERC
• Applies Results-based Standards and P81 concepts
• Build industry consensus through informal outreach
Committees and Sub-committees
Trades, Forums, Professional Organizations
Technical Conferences
• Submit SAR and pro forma documents to Standards Committee
Informal Development
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• Informal outreach began February 2013 Ad hoc group formed
o Open to the public for participation
• Numerous meetings, technical conferences, conference calls, and webinars FERC OER staff has been invited to participate in all events
• Integration of Independent Experts’ Report
• Met with NERC Compliance, other internal departments, technical committees and trade groups to receive feedback on the standards Compliance input to RSAW
Informal Development
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• Approval received from the Standards Committee to move into formal process 45-day formal comment and ballot period o Comment period: July 19, 2013 – September 3, 2013
o Ballot Pools forming: July 19, 2013 – August 19, 2013
o Ballot and non-binding poll: August 23, 2013 – September 3, 2013
Formal Process
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• All projects resolve 67 directives and retire 66 requirements
• MOD A, B and C resolves 49 directives and removes 62 requirements MOD A resolves 20 directives and retires 50 requirements
MOD B resolves 15 directives and retires 5 requirements
MOD C resolves 14 directives and retires 7 requirements
• PER resolves 7 directives and adds 2 requirements
• VAR resolves 11 directives and retires 6 requirements
Project Directives and Requirements
PER Industry Webinar
Jordan Mallory, Standards Developer Specialist
PER Industry Webinar
July 31, 2013
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• Possible Solutions in Response to FERC Directives
• PER FERC directives
• Updated System Operator Definition
• Generator Operator Directive
• Support Personnel Directive
• EMS Personnel Directive
• Implementation Plan Directive
• Local Transmission Control Center Directive
PER Agenda
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• Comply with the directive New standard
Revised standard
• Alternative method to address concern Equally effective and efficient method
• Explain why the directive is no longer needed May develop Guideline if necessary
Must be supported with technical justification as to why the directive would not be implemented
Possible Solutions Responding to FERC Directives
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• Five FERC Directives to the ERO Order 693
o Develop specific Requirements addressing the scope, content and duration appropriate for generator operator personnel.
o Include in PER-002-0, personnel who:
– carry out outage coordination and assessments in accordance with IRO-004-1 and TOP-002-2
– determine SOLs and IROLs or operating nomograms in accordance with IRO-005-1 and TOP-004-0.
o Consider through the Reliability Standards development process, whether personnel that perform functions having an impact on the reliability of the BES, should be included in mandatory training pursuant to PER-002-0.
– Personnel responsible for ensuring that critical reliability applications of the EMS, such as state estimator, contingency analysis and alarm processing packages, are available, up-to-date in terms of system data and produce useable results.
o Direct the ERO to develop modifications to PER-002-0 to include formal training for local control center personnel, that training should be tailored to the needs of the position.
PER Directives
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FERC Order 742
o Direct NERC to consider the necessity of developing a similar implementation plan with respect to PER-005-1, Requirement R3.1. (simulation technology)
o Direct NERC to develop a definition of “local transmission control center” in the standards development project for developing the training requirements for local transmission control center operator personnel.
PER Directives Continued
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Suggested Definitions
Glossary of Terms Definition: Suggested Change:
System Operator: An individual at a control center (Balancing Authority, Transmission Operator, Generator Operator, Reliability Coordinator) whose responsibility it is to monitor and control that electric system in real time. *Control Center: One or more facilities hosting operating personnel that monitor and control the Bulk Electric System (BES) in real-time to perform the reliability tasks, including their associated data centers, of: 1) a Reliability Coordinator, 2) a Balancing Authority, 3) a Transmission Operator for transmission Facilities at two or more locations, or 4) a Generator Operator for generation Facilities at two or more locations.
System Operator: An individual at a Control Center* that operates or directs the operation of the Bulk Electric System in Real-time.
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• Develop specific Requirements addressing the scope, content and duration appropriate for Generator Operator (GOP) personnel No new arguments have been received to date
Current proposed standard complies with the directive
o GOPs are not required to complete training like the RC, BA and TOP
o GOPs are given flexibility in the standard
Generator Operator Directive
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• Include in PER-002-0, personnel who: Carry out outage coordination and assessments in accordance with IRO-
004-1 and TOP-002-2
Determine SOLs and IROLs or operating nomograms in accordance with IRO-005-1 and TOP-004-0.
• No new arguments have been received to date
• Current proposed standard complies with the directive Support personnel are not required to complete training like the RC, BA
and TOP
Support personnel are given flexibility in the standard
Support Personnel Directive
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• Consider through the Reliability Standards development process, whether personnel that perform functions having an impact on the reliability of the BES, should be included in mandatory training pursuant to PER-002-0. Personnel responsible for ensuring that critical reliability applications of
the EMS, such as state estimator, contingency analysis and alarm processing packages, are available, up-to-date in terms of system data and produce useable results.
• A new argument was provided by the Event Analysis Subcommittee The EAS report will be used as a justification as to why EMS personnel
should not be included in the standard
EMS Personnel Directive
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• Direct NERC to consider the necessity of developing a similar implementation plan for entities that may become, in the future, subject to the simulator training requirement in PER-005-1, R3.1 No new arguments have been received to-date
Current proposed standard complies with the directive
Once the studies show that an entity has an IROL the entity has six months before becoming compliant
o Entity that never had an IROL
Implementation Plan Directive
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• Direct NERC to develop a definition of “local transmission control center” in the standards development project for developing the training requirements for local transmission control center operator personnel.
• Direct the ERO to develop through a separate Reliability Standards development project formal training requirements for local transmission control center operator personnel. No new arguments have been received to date
Current proposed standard complies with the directive
Local Transmission Control Center Directive
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• http://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Pages/Project2010-01Training.aspx
• Components: Draft Standard PER-005-2
Implementation Plan
Standard Authorization Request
Technical White Paper
Mapping Document
Compliance Input
Proposed Timeline for the Formal Development
Project 2010-01 Project Page
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VAR Industry Webinar
Soo Jin Kim, Standards Developer
VAR Industry Webinar
July 31, 2013
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Ad-Hoc Group Members
Participant Entity Represented
Dennis Chastain TVA
Bill Harm PJM
Steve Hitchens BPA
Sharma Kolluri Entergy
Martin Kaufman ExxonMobil
Joshua Pierce Southern Company
Hari Singh Xcel
Hamid Zakery Calpine
Scott Berry Indiana Municipal Power
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Outreach Conducted
• Numerous meetings, conference calls, and webinars
• Two technical conferences were conducted
• Presented the pro formas to the NAGF and NATF
• Presented to ISO/RTO council via conference call
• Met with NERC Compliance and other internal departments to receive feedback on the standards
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• Five Major FERC Directives to the ERO from Order No. 693 VAR-001-Summary from P 1880
o Expand the applicability to include reliability coordinators and LSEs;
o Include detailed and definitive requirements on “established limits” and “sufficient reactive resources” and identify acceptable margins above the voltage instability points;
o Include Requirements to perform voltage stability analysis periodically, using online techniques where commercially available and offline techniques where online techniques are not available, to assist real-time operations, for areas susceptible to voltage instability;
o Include controllable load among the reactive resources to satisfy reactive Requirements; and
o Address the power factor range at the interface between LSEs and the transmission grid.
VAR Directives
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VAR-002- From PP 1881-1885
o FERC directed NERC to consider modifying VAR-002 to require more detailed and definitive requirements when defining the time frame associated with an “incident” of non compliance (i.e., each 4-second scan, 10-minute integrated value, hourly integrated value)
VAR Directives Continued
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• VAR-001 Some advocated for a planning standard, and the consensus was that
was not necessary because we have other standards that address the planning horizon
Did not create hard limits for operating margins, tolerance bands, and stability limits
LSE responsibility for maintaining power factors was very divisive, and the consensus was to remove from VAR pending a final rulemaking for P81
• VAR-002 Some advocated for changing the VAR-002 standard completely, but the
consensus was to keep the focus on addressing FERC directives
There is still a concern about how to best achieve voltage coordination
Major Issues Discussed
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Pro Forma Drafted and Posted
• VAR-001 RC added to the standard.
No hard limits or prescriptive margins.
The policies and procedures will dictate frequency of assessments.
Controllable load directive already covered by existing standard.
LSE requirements are proposed to be retired in the P81 NOPR.
Power Factor requirements not added pending the P81 Final Rulemaking.
WECC variance is being retained; therefore, the standard applies to GOPs in WECC.
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Pro Forma Drafted and Posted Continued
• VAR-002
Timeframes have been added to VAR-002 to allow GOPs a window for being out of schedule and to correct an issue with an AVR
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• Ballot Closes and Comments Due – September 3, 2013
• SDT Nominations Due – August 2, 2013
• Board of Trustees Adoption – November 7, 2013
• File with FERC – December 31, 2013
Upcoming Key Dates
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• http://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Pages/Project2013-04VoltageReactiveControl.aspx
• Components: Draft Standard VAR-001-4 and VAR-002-3
Implementation Plan
Standard Authorization Request
Technical White Paper
Mapping Document
Compliance Input
Proposed Timeline for the Formal Development
Project 2013-04 Project Page
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