Duke Energy Carolinas
Quarterly Stakeholder
Meeting
Independent Entity Services
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EDT
Agenda
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Follow-up Action Items from April 21, 2009
Business Practice Clarification – Rollover Rights
Yearly TTC and Yearly ATC Offering Horizon
Review Designated Network Resource Form
Coordination of Transmission Service Queues
FERC NOPRs
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NAESB Practices
NERC Standards
NAESB Wholesale Electric Quadrant Update
Accessing NAESB to View Business Practice Standards
Wrap-up
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Action Items
Follow-up from April 21, 2009
• No Action Items
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OASIS Business Practice
Clarification – 3.J. Rollover Rights
• Revised for clarification on July 17th, 2009
• Yearly requests profiled by increment may be
eligible for Rollover Rights
• The MW value eligible for rollover will be the
capacity granted in the last profiled segment
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Yearly TTC & Yearly ATC
Offering Horizon
• Discontinue posting of yearly ATC offerings
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No consistent methodology for Yearly ATC calculation
No regional studies for Yearly TTC/ATC calculation
Not required by FERC, NERC or NAESB
Yearly transmission service can still be requested
Submission timeline for yearly requests is unchanged
Yearly transmission service request evaluation is unchanged
• Post 13 months TTC & ATC data
– Code of Federal Regulations, NERC, & NAESB require 13
months (current month + 12) of posted TTC & ATC data
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Review Designated Network
Resource Form
• Facilitates the collection of information required by FERC
• Used to fulfill the Customer Attestation requirement
• The Network Customer who has an OASIS certificate may
be an agent to or acting as an authorized officer of the
Network Customer
– When the individual checks the boxes on the form they are
attesting to fulfilling the requirements in the Tariff
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Coordination of
Transmission Service Queues
• Customer requested Duke coordinate with other TPs on
the acceptance of transmission service requests
– Items that affect the timing of Transmission Provider’s responses
• Queue time (higher queued requests)
• Level of transmission congestion (System Impact Studies &
Facilities Studies)
• Number of requests in the queue
• Reservation priority
– Coordination is not required or facilitated by the FERC, NERC, &
NAESB
– TPs must follow the timing requirements set forth in their OATT’s
and NAESB Business Practices Standards.
• Service Requests are processed in the order that they are received
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FERC NOPRs
• NAESB Business Practice Standards (RM05-013)
– Duke Comments (link)
• Request additional time for implementation
• Request FERC not adopt standards that conflict with Order 717
• Request the effective date for posting the ATC Information Link to
coincide with the effective date for implementation of the NERC ATC
standards
• Request FERC not adopt Version 2.1 standards for Rollover Rights
for Firm Redirects
– No Final Order
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FERC NOPRs
• NERC ATC Standards (Docket Nos. RM08-19-000,
RM08-19-001, RM09-5-000, RM06-16-005)
– Duke Comments (link)
• FERC should not direct NERC to perform audits unrelated to the
reliability of the bulk-power system
• FERC should not require the disclosure of implementation
documents to parties who do not have a reliability need for the
information
• Clarification on modeling of designated network resources in ATC
calculations
• FAC-012 and FAC-013 should be retired or withdrawn
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NAESB Update:
Wholesale Electric Quadrant
• NAESB Request & Standards Development Activity
Applicable to WEQ (link to web page)
– Rollover Rights on Redirect on a Firm Basis (Approved by WEQ EC and
Membership)
• Permits customers to decide whether to transfer rollover rights to a qualifying firm
redirect or to retain them on the parent reservation
• Establishes parameters to track rollover rights on OASIS
– Order 717, Standards of Conduct (Approved by WEQ EC, Membership
ballot due 7/27/09)
• Removes requirements for posting standards of conduct information on OASIS
• Retains option to keep OASIS templates if transmission provider wishes to post
standards of conduct information
• Duke IE will continue to post acts of discretion (e.g., annulment of reservation) on
OASIS even though not required
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NAESB Update:
Wholesale Electric Quadrant
• WEQ Executive Committee (EC) (link WEQ EC page)
– May 12 meeting (link)
• 2009 WEQ Annual Plan item 3.d – “FERC Order No 717 Standards of
Conduct” – Revised recommendation and passed by supermajority vote
• Approved recommendation to restructure to WEQ subcommittees with the
following changes:
– Collapse the WEQ Electronic Scheduling Subcommittee and Information
Technology Subcommittee into a single subcommittee named the OASIS
Subcommittee.
– Move the Joint Interchange Scheduling Working Group to a subcommittee named
the Joint Electric Scheduling Subcommittee
– Move the Seams Subcommittee to the Inactive Subcommittees and Task Forces
– Rename the WEQ Joint BPS/ESS/ITS Meetings on ATC/AFC to the WEQ Joint
BPS/OASIS Meetings on ATC to be consistent with merging the ESS/ITS into the
OASIS subcommittee.
– Next meeting is August 18.
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Accessing
NAESB Standards
• NAESB Business Practices Standards (BP) are
incorporated in the Code of Federal Regulations
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NAESB BP Standards are under copyright
Full text is not viewable in the CFRs
Link to Version 1.4 (Duke Business Practices 2.E.)
Link to Version 2.1 (FERC NOPR – slide 8 and 17)
• NAESB Contact
– Home Page: http://www.naesb.org/pdf/homepage.pdf
– Contact Page: http://www.naesb.org/contactus.asp
– NAESB phone: 713-356-0060
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Wrap-up
• Proposed Next Quarterly Stakeholder
Meeting
– Thursday, November 5, 2009 – 2 p.m. to 3
p.m. ET
• Customer Suggested Topics?
– This is the forum for discussing emergent
topics (Upcoming changes, stakeholder input)
• Questions and Comments
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Appendix
• Slide 15 - Reference points Designated Network
Resource Form
• Slide 16 - Reference points Designated Network
Resource Attestation
• Slide 17 - FERC NOPR
NAESB Business Practice Standards
• Slide 18 - FERC NOPR
NERC Reliability Standards
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Designated Network Resource
Form
• 18 CFR 37.6 vi - The Transmission Provider shall post
– a list of its current designated network resources and all network customers' current
designated network resources on OASIS.
– The list of network resources should include:
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the name of the resource
its geographic and electrical location
its total installed capacity
the amount of capacity to be designated as a network resource.
• The posting of DNR’s pursuant to 18 CFR 37.6 vi is created from
gathering information from several steps in the process
– Information required by 29.2 of the OATT
• NITSA initiates the process to become a network customer
– OASIS request
• A statement signed by an authorized officer from or agent of the Network Customer
attesting that all of the network resources listed pursuant to OATT Section 29.2(v)
• Attestation in Customer Comment field (OATT Section 29.2 viii)
– DNR form
• Accompanies every OASIS request for Designated Network Resources
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Designated Network Resource
Attestation
Section 29.2 of the Duke OATT is the Application Process for Network
Service
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29.2 viii - Accompanying an application for a new DNR
• A statement signed by an authorized officer or agent of the Network Customer attests
– Networks Customer owns or has committed to purchase a generation under an
executed contract
– Network Resources do not include any resources, or any portion thereof, that are
committed for sale to non-designated third party load or otherwise cannot be called
upon to meet the Network Customer's Network Load on a non-interruptible basis
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Agent/Network Customer Relationship with respect to the Attestation and
OASIS posting
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If through Contracts your Company has been enabled to acquire Network Service then our
software will not fail your access to Network Service
The Network Customer who has an OASIS certificate may be an agent to or acting as an
authorized officer of the Network Customer
• When the individual checks the boxes on the form they are attesting to fulfilling the
requirements in the Tariff.
FERC Order 890-B
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• “In Order No. 890, the Commission adopted the attestation requirement as the means
by which the network customer can make this demonstration”
• “We affirm this requirement, consistent with the network customer’s obligations under
section 30.7”
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FERC NOPR
NAESB Business Practice Standards
NAESB Business Practice Standards (Docket RM05-5-013)
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http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/common/OpenNat.asp?fileID=11969248
(FERC filed Document)
Official Version NAESB NOPR in the Federal Register
– Proposal to incorporate the latest version (Version 002.1) of
certain business practice standards adopted by NAESB
Wholesale Electric Quadrant
• This version includes Standards in response to Order 890, 890-A &
890-B
• NAESB booklet version 2.1 NAESB link (requires login to view booklet)
– ATC related reforms
– New business practices include rules for treatment of requests with no
value for bid price, treatment of pre-confirmed STF & NF requests,
customer rebid of capacity, treatment of competing bids when
insufficient ATC is available, treatment of rollover rights, conditional firm
reservations, and other items
– Issued March 19, 2009
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FERC NOPR
NERC Reliability Standards
NERC Reliability Standards (Docket Nos. RM08-19-000, RM08-19-001, RM09-5-000,
RM06-16-005)
• http://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/comm-meet/2009/031909/E-5.pdf
(FERC filed Document)
• Official Version NERC NOPR in the Federal Register
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Proposal to approve 6 Modeling, Data and Analysis Reliability Standards submitted by
NERC
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Available Transmission System Capability
http://www.nerc.com/files/MOD-001-1.pdf
Capacity Benefit Margin
http://www.nerc.com/files/MOD-004-1.pdf
Transmission Reliability Margin Calculation Methodology
http://www.nerc.com/files/MOD-008-1.pdf
Area Interchange Methodology
http://www.nerc.com/files/MOD-028-1.pdf
Rated System Path Methodology
http://www.nerc.com/files/MOD-029-1.pdf
Flowgate Methodology
http://www.nerc.com/files/MOD-030-2.pdf
Consistency and Transparency of ATC and AFC Calculations
Issued March 19, 2009
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