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Dated: June 19, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 2880–011]
Broad River Electric Cooperative and
Cherokee Falls Associates; Aquenergy
Systems, Inc.; Notice of Application for
Transfer of License, and Soliciting
Comments and Motions To Intervene
On June 18, 2013, Broad River Electric
Cooperative and Cherokee Falls
Associates (transferors) and Aquenergy
Systems, Inc. (transferee) filed an
application for transfer of license for the
Cherokee Falls Project, FERC No. 2880,
located on the Broad River in Cherokee
County, South Carolina.
Applicants seek Commission approval
to transfer the license for the Cherokee
Falls Project from transferor to
transferee.
Applicants’ Contact: Transferor: Mr.
Douglass E. Wilson, President & Chief
Executive Officer, Broad River Electric
Cooperative, Inc., P.O. Box 2269, 811
Hamrick Street, Gaffney, SC 29342,
telephone (864) 489–5737 and Mr.
Charles R. Zappala, Shareholder,
Cherokee Falls Associates, 625 Liberty
Ave., Suite 3100, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.
Transferee: Mr. Steve Champagne,
Executive Vice President and General
Counsel, Aquenergy Systems, Inc., c/o
Enel Green Power North America, Inc.,
One Tech Drive, Suite 220, Andover,
MA 01810.
FERC Contact: Patricia W. Gillis (202)
502–8735.
Deadline for filing comments and
motions to intervene: 30 days from the
issuance date of this notice by the
Commission. Comments and motions to
intervene may be filed electronically via
the Internet. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)
and the instructions on the
Commission’s Web site under https://
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up to 6,000 characters, without prior
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Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
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access the document. For assistance,
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Dated: June 19, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Reliability Technical Conference
Agenda
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Reliability Technical Conference .........................................................................................................................
North American Electric Reliability Corporation ...............................................................................................
North American Electric Reliability Corporation ...............................................................................................
As announced in the Notice of
Technical Conference issued on May 7,
2013, the Commission will hold a
technical conference on Tuesday, July 9,
2013 from 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to
discuss policy issues related to the
reliability of the Bulk-Power System.
The agenda for this conference is
attached. Commission members will
participate in this conference.
After the close of the conference, the
Commission will accept written
comments regarding the matters
discussed at the technical conference.
Any person or entity wishing to submit
written comments regarding the matters
discussed at the conference should
submit such comments in Docket No.
AD13–6–000, on or before August 8,
2013.
Information on this event will be
posted on the Calendar of Events on the
Commission’s Web site, www.ferc.gov,
prior to the event. The conference will
be transcribed. Transcripts will be
available immediately for a fee from Ace
Reporting Company (202–347–3700 or
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1–800–336–6646). A free webcast of this
event is also available through
www.ferc.gov. Anyone with Internet
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can do so by navigating to
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locating this event in the Calendar. The
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you have any questions, visit
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Commission conferences are
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Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For
accessibility accommodations, please
send an email to accessibility@ferc.gov
or call toll free 1–866–208–3372 (voice)
or 202–208–1659 (TTY), or send a FAX
to 202–208–2106 with the required
accommodations.
For more information about this
conference, please contact: Sarah
McKinley, Office of External Affairs,
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Docket No. AD13–6–000
Docket No. RC11–6–004
Docket No. RR13–2–000
Not consolidated.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE., Washington, DC
20426, (202) 502–8368,
sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov.
Dated: June 19, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
Reliability Technical Conference
Commissioner-Led Reliability
Technical Conference
July 9, 2013,
8:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
8:45 a.m. Commissioners’ Opening
Remarks
9:00 a.m. Introductions—
Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur,
Conference Chair
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9:15 a.m. Panel I: State of Reliability
and Emerging Issues
Presentations: Panelists will be
asked to address the state of reliability,
including NERC’s May 2013 State of
Reliability Report and its findings with
respect to the adequacy of Bulk-Power
System reliability. In addition, panelists
will be invited to address related issues
that have affected or are expected to
affect the state of reliability going
forward. Specifically, panelists will be
asked to address some or all of the
following:
a. What does the 2013 State of
Reliability Report show about the state
of reliability? What metrics are most
useful for measuring reliability? Has
NERC developed new or improved
metrics over time? How do the results
in the 2013 Report compare to the
results in the 2012 Report? How have
NERC and the industry implemented
recommendations from the 2012 Report?
What have been the lessons learned in
implementing last year’s
recommendations?
b. What are the most critical issues
affecting the state of reliability today
and what should NERC, the industry,
and the Commission do to address
them? What trends have been identified
with respect to bulk electric system
events that resulted in load loss, e.g.,
protection system misoperations or
equipment failures, and how can the
frequency of such events be reduced?
How have NERC’s event analysis
reports, lessons learned, and related
documents contributed to industry’s
understanding of common causes and
solutions to prevent similar events from
occurring?
c. Panelists will be asked to identify
emerging issues that will impact
reliability, including cybersecurity and
high impact low frequency issues. This
topic should not include issues covered
by other panels of this conference, but
should address emerging issues and the
biggest challenges to addressing those
issues. What long-term objectives
should NERC be pursuing, i.e., over the
next five to ten years, both internally,
with respect to its own processes, and
externally, with respect to reliability
objectives?
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Panelists:
1. Gerry W. Cauley, President and
Chief Executive Officer, North American
Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)
2. Tom Burgess, Vice President and
Director of Reliability Assessment and
Performance Analysis, NERC
3. Kevin Burke, Chairman, President
and CEO, Consolidated Edison Inc., on
behalf of Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
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4. Allen Mosher, Vice President,
Policy Analysis and Reliability
Standards, American Public Power
Association
5. The Honorable Todd Snitchler,
Chairman, Public Utilities Commission
of Ohio, on behalf of National
Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners
6. Peter Fraser, Managing Director,
Regulatory Policy, Ontario Energy Board
11:15 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Panel II: Continuing
Evolution of NERC Enforcement
and Compliance Activities
Presentations: NERC will be invited
to provide an update on its efforts to
streamline its compliance and
enforcement processes. Panelists will be
invited to express their views on
NERC’s progress in these areas as well
as recommendations moving forward.
Specifically, NERC and panelists will be
asked to address some or all of the
following:
a. What are the trends in compliance
and enforcement of Reliability
Standards Requirements? Which are the
Reliability Standards Requirements
most violated? In what way has
implementation of the Find, Fix, Track,
and Report program enhanced
reliability?
b. What is the status of the NERC
Reliability Assurance Initiative (RAI)
program? What progress has been made
in developing criteria for evaluating
internal controls and risk assessments?
How do NERC and the Regional Entities
plan to implement RAI? How will NERC
ensure consistency among the regions?
Presentations: Panelists will be
asked to address NERC’s standards
development process, the status of that
process, and various initiatives to
improve the timeliness, substance, and
prioritization of issues. Panelists may
suggest improvements in both the
process and overall approach to
standards development. NERC and
panelists will be asked to address some
or all of the following:
a. What is the status of NERC’s efforts
to improve NERC’s standards
development process, including the
quality and timeliness of standards?
What are the primary deficiencies in the
current standards development process
and how are they being addressed? Are
there changes in the Commission’s
processes that the Commission should
consider?
b. Please provide an update on the
role of various initiatives to improve the
standards development process and
priorities (e.g., Reliability Issues
Steering Committee, Standards
Oversight Project Group, and ‘‘P 81’’
efforts). How are they working and is
there room for further improvement.
c. What is the status and progress of
NERC’s Cost Effective Analysis Process
in introducing cost considerations and
effectiveness into the development of
new and revised standards?
d. What can the North American
Transmission Forum do to inform the
standards development process? What is
the role of the North American
Transmission Forum in identifying and
communicating lessons learned to
NERC, the Commission, and industry?
Panelists:
1. Mark Rossi, Senior Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer, NERC 1
2. Joseph T. Kelliher, Executive Vice
President for Federal Regulatory Affairs,
NextEra Energy, Inc., on behalf of EEI
3. Barry Lawson, Associate Director,
Power Delivery and Reliability
Government Relations, National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association
4. William J. Gallagher, Special
Projects Chief, Vermont Public Power
Supply Authority, on behalf of
Transmission Access Policy Study
Group
5. Stacy Dochoda, President and CEO,
Florida Reliability Coordinating Council
and 2013 Chair Regional Entity
Management Group
12:45 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Panel III: NERC Standards
Development Process and Priorities
Panelists:
1 Gerry Cauley, President and Chief Executive
Officer of NERC, may also participate in the panel
discussions for Panels II, III, and IV, but will not
present any formal remarks on behalf of NERC.
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1. Mark Lauby, Vice President and
Director of Standards, NERC
2. Jeffery J. Gust, Vice President,
Compliance and Standards,
MidAmerican Energy Company, on
behalf of EEI
3. John A. Anderson, President &
CEO, Electricity Consumers Resource
Council
4. Brian Murphy, Chair of NERC
Standards Committee; Manager, NERC
Reliability Standards, NextEra Energy,
Inc
5. Christine Schwab, Chair of NERC
Reliability Issues Steering Committee;
Vice President and Chief Compliance
and Risk Officer, Dominion Resources
Services
6. Thomas J. Galloway, President and
Chief Executive Officer, North American
Transmission Forum
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Panel IV: Other Issues
Presentations: Panelists will be
asked to address the following issues:
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a. What approaches are being taken by
the industry, ISOs, and other system
planners to address the continued
changes in projected resource mix
resulting from Environmental Protection
Agency rules and, among other things,
recent trends in natural gas prices? How
are regulators, system planners, and
industry participants identifying and
responding to potential changes in the
generation resource mix or in capacity
reserve levels due to retirement of aging
or other non-economically viable
plants? Which regions are expected to
be most affected by retirement of coal
plants or other changes in resource mix,
and how are those regions responding?
How are regions accommodating
outages necessitated by generator
retrofits?
b. What is the status of
implementation (in the Western
Electricity Coordinating Council Region
and in the other regions) of the
recommendations made or lessons
learned in the September 8, 2011
Southwest blackout and from the
February 2011 cold weather outages?
The purpose of this panel is not to
discuss any ongoing investigation but to
address what steps are being taken to
ensure that the lessons learned are being
implemented and are not lost over time.
Also, what have been the primary
obstacles in implementing the changes
recommended in the NERC/FERC
blackout reports issued in response to
these outages?
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Panelists:
1. David Souder, Director Operations
Planning, PJM Interconnection
2. John Lawhorn, Senior Director,
Policy and Economic Study,
Midcontinent Independent System
Operator, Inc.
3. Jeff Burleson, Vice President,
System Planning, Southern Company
4. Joel Beauvais, Associate Assistant
Administrator, Office of Air and
Radiation, Environmental Protection
Agency
5. Melanie M. Frye, Vice President,
Operations and Planning, Western
Electric Coordinating Council
6. Michael Moon, Senior Director of
Reliability Risk Management, NERC
4:30 p.m. Commissioner Closing
Remarks
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 14527–000]
Kings River Conservation District;
Notice of Preliminary Permit
Application Accepted for Filing and
Soliciting Comments and Motions To
Intervene
On June 3, 2013, the Kings River
Conservation District filed an
application, pursuant to section 4(f) of
the Federal Power Act, proposing to
study the feasibility of the Gould Weir
Hydroelectric Project, to be located on
the Kings River, near the city of Sanger,
in Fresno County, California. The sole
purpose of a preliminary permit, if
issued, is to grant the permit holder
priority to file a license application
during the permit term. A preliminary
permit does not authorize the permit
holder to perform any land-disturbing
activities or otherwise enter upon lands
or waters owned by others without the
owners’ express permission.
The applicant is considering two
alternatives for this proposed project.
The first option would include the
installation of facilities immediately
downstream of the existing Gould weir.
The second option would include the
installation of facilities in a bypass
channel adjacent to Gould weir. Based
on a reconnaissance-level study of the
site performed in 2002, the project
could have an installed capacity of 0.96
megawatt and an estimated average
annual generation of 4.4 gigawatt-hours
utilizing one Kaplan-bulb turbine. A
preliminary design of the facilities and
selection of the turbine and generator
would be performed during the
feasibility study.
Applicant Contact: Mr. David Orth,
4886 East Jensen Avenue, Fresno, CA
93725, phone (559) 237–5567, extension
101.
FERC Contact: Corey Vezina, (202)
502–8598 or Corey.vezina@ferc.gov.
Competing Application: This
application competes with Project No.
14497–000 filed February 11, 2013.
Competing applications had to be filed
on or before June 3, 2013.
Deadline for filing comments and
motions to intervene: 60 days from the
issuance of this notice. Comments and
motions to intervene may be filed
electronically via the Internet. See 18
CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the
instructions on the Commission’s Web
site https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp. Commenters can submit
brief comments up to 6,000 characters,
without prior registration, using the
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eComment system at https://www.ferc.
gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You
must include your name and contact
information at the end of your
comments. For assistance, please
contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll
free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY,
(202) 502–8659. Although the
Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing, documents may also be
paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an
original and five copies to: Kimberly D.
Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE., Washington, DC 20426.
More information about this project
can be viewed or printed on the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link of Commission’s Web
site at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number
(P–14527) in the docket number field to
access the document. For assistance,
call toll-free 1–866–208–3372.
Dated: June 19, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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Notice of Commission Staff
Attendance
The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission) hereby gives
notice that members of the
Commission’s staff may attend the
following joint stakeholder meeting
related to the transmission planning
activities of PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.,
ISO New England, Inc., and New York
Independent System Operator, Inc.:
Inter-Regional Planning Stakeholder
Advisory Committee—New York/New
England
June 20, 2013, 8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.,
Local Time
The above-referenced meeting will be
held over conference call.
The above-referenced meeting is open
to stakeholders.
Further information may be found at
www.pjm.com/committees-and-groups/
stakeholder-meetings/stakeholdergroups/ipsac-ny-ne.aspx.
The discussions at the meeting
described above may address matters at
issue in the following proceedings:
Docket No. ER08–1281, New York
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Docket No. EL05–121, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Reliability Technical Conference Agenda
Reliability Technical Docket No. AD13-6-000
Conference.
North American Electric Docket No. RC11-6-004
Reliability Corporation.
North American Electric Docket No. RR13-2-000
Reliability Corporation.
Not consolidated.
As announced in the Notice of Technical Conference issued on May 7,
2013, the Commission will hold a technical conference on Tuesday, July
9, 2013 from 8:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to discuss policy issues related to
the reliability of the Bulk-Power System. The agenda for this
conference is attached. Commission members will participate in this
conference.
After the close of the conference, the Commission will accept
written comments regarding the matters discussed at the technical
conference. Any person or entity wishing to submit written comments
regarding the matters discussed at the conference should submit such
comments in Docket No. AD13-6-000, on or before August 8, 2013.
Information on this event will be posted on the Calendar of Events
on the Commission's Web site, www.ferc.gov, prior to the event. The
conference will be transcribed. Transcripts will be available
immediately for a fee from Ace Reporting Company (202-347-3700 or 1-
800-336-6646). A free webcast of this event is also available through
www.ferc.gov. Anyone with Internet access who desires to listen to this
event can do so by navigating to www.ferc.gov's Calendar of Events and
locating this event in the Calendar. The event will contain a link to
the webcast. The Capitol Connection provides technical support for
webcasts and offers the option of listening to the meeting via phone-
bridge for a fee. If you have any questions, visit
www.CapitolConnection.org or call 703-993-3100.
Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please
send an email to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 1-866-208-
3372 (voice) or 202-208-1659 (TTY), or send a FAX to 202-208-2106 with
the required accommodations.
For more information about this conference, please contact: Sarah
McKinley, Office of External Affairs, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502-8368,
sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov.
Dated: June 19, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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Reliability Technical Conference
Commissioner-Led Reliability
Technical Conference
July 9, 2013,
8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
8:45 a.m. Commissioners' Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. Introductions--Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur, Conference Chair
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9:15 a.m. Panel I: State of Reliability and Emerging Issues
Presentations: Panelists will be asked to address the state of
reliability, including NERC's May 2013 State of Reliability Report and
its findings with respect to the adequacy of Bulk-Power System
reliability. In addition, panelists will be invited to address related
issues that have affected or are expected to affect the state of
reliability going forward. Specifically, panelists will be asked to
address some or all of the following:
a. What does the 2013 State of Reliability Report show about the
state of reliability? What metrics are most useful for measuring
reliability? Has NERC developed new or improved metrics over time? How
do the results in the 2013 Report compare to the results in the 2012
Report? How have NERC and the industry implemented recommendations from
the 2012 Report? What have been the lessons learned in implementing
last year's recommendations?
b. What are the most critical issues affecting the state of
reliability today and what should NERC, the industry, and the
Commission do to address them? What trends have been identified with
respect to bulk electric system events that resulted in load loss,
e.g., protection system misoperations or equipment failures, and how
can the frequency of such events be reduced? How have NERC's event
analysis reports, lessons learned, and related documents contributed to
industry's understanding of common causes and solutions to prevent
similar events from occurring?
c. Panelists will be asked to identify emerging issues that will
impact reliability, including cybersecurity and high impact low
frequency issues. This topic should not include issues covered by other
panels of this conference, but should address emerging issues and the
biggest challenges to addressing those issues. What long-term
objectives should NERC be pursuing, i.e., over the next five to ten
years, both internally, with respect to its own processes, and
externally, with respect to reliability objectives?
Panelists:
1. Gerry W. Cauley, President and Chief Executive Officer, North
American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)
2. Tom Burgess, Vice President and Director of Reliability
Assessment and Performance Analysis, NERC
3. Kevin Burke, Chairman, President and CEO, Consolidated Edison
Inc., on behalf of Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
4. Allen Mosher, Vice President, Policy Analysis and Reliability
Standards, American Public Power Association
5. The Honorable Todd Snitchler, Chairman, Public Utilities
Commission of Ohio, on behalf of National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners
6. Peter Fraser, Managing Director, Regulatory Policy, Ontario
Energy Board
11:15 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Panel II: Continuing Evolution of NERC Enforcement and
Compliance Activities
Presentations: NERC will be invited to provide an update on its
efforts to streamline its compliance and enforcement processes.
Panelists will be invited to express their views on NERC's progress in
these areas as well as recommendations moving forward. Specifically,
NERC and panelists will be asked to address some or all of the
following:
a. What are the trends in compliance and enforcement of Reliability
Standards Requirements? Which are the Reliability Standards
Requirements most violated? In what way has implementation of the Find,
Fix, Track, and Report program enhanced reliability?
b. What is the status of the NERC Reliability Assurance Initiative
(RAI) program? What progress has been made in developing criteria for
evaluating internal controls and risk assessments? How do NERC and the
Regional Entities plan to implement RAI? How will NERC ensure
consistency among the regions?
Panelists:
1. Mark Rossi, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,
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2. Joseph T. Kelliher, Executive Vice President for Federal
Regulatory Affairs, NextEra Energy, Inc., on behalf of EEI
3. Barry Lawson, Associate Director, Power Delivery and Reliability
Government Relations, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
4. William J. Gallagher, Special Projects Chief, Vermont Public
Power Supply Authority, on behalf of Transmission Access Policy Study
Group
5. Stacy Dochoda, President and CEO, Florida Reliability
Coordinating Council and 2013 Chair Regional Entity Management Group
12:45 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Panel III: NERC Standards Development Process and Priorities
Presentations: Panelists will be asked to address NERC's standards
development process, the status of that process, and various
initiatives to improve the timeliness, substance, and prioritization of
issues. Panelists may suggest improvements in both the process and
overall approach to standards development. NERC and panelists will be
asked to address some or all of the following:
a. What is the status of NERC's efforts to improve NERC's standards
development process, including the quality and timeliness of standards?
What are the primary deficiencies in the current standards development
process and how are they being addressed? Are there changes in the
Commission's processes that the Commission should consider?
b. Please provide an update on the role of various initiatives to
improve the standards development process and priorities (e.g.,
Reliability Issues Steering Committee, Standards Oversight Project
Group, and ``P 81'' efforts). How are they working and is there room
for further improvement.
c. What is the status and progress of NERC's Cost Effective
Analysis Process in introducing cost considerations and effectiveness
into the development of new and revised standards?
d. What can the North American Transmission Forum do to inform the
standards development process? What is the role of the North American
Transmission Forum in identifying and communicating lessons learned to
NERC, the Commission, and industry?
Panelists:
1. Mark Lauby, Vice President and Director of Standards, NERC
2. Jeffery J. Gust, Vice President, Compliance and Standards,
MidAmerican Energy Company, on behalf of EEI
3. John A. Anderson, President & CEO, Electricity Consumers
Resource Council
4. Brian Murphy, Chair of NERC Standards Committee; Manager, NERC
Reliability Standards, NextEra Energy, Inc
5. Christine Schwab, Chair of NERC Reliability Issues Steering
Committee; Vice President and Chief Compliance and Risk Officer,
Dominion Resources Services
6. Thomas J. Galloway, President and Chief Executive Officer, North
American Transmission Forum
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Panel IV: Other Issues
Presentations: Panelists will be asked to address the following
issues:
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a. What approaches are being taken by the industry, ISOs, and other
system planners to address the continued changes in projected resource
mix resulting from Environmental Protection Agency rules and, among
other things, recent trends in natural gas prices? How are regulators,
system planners, and industry participants identifying and responding
to potential changes in the generation resource mix or in capacity
reserve levels due to retirement of aging or other non-economically
viable plants? Which regions are expected to be most affected by
retirement of coal plants or other changes in resource mix, and how are
those regions responding? How are regions accommodating outages
necessitated by generator retrofits?
b. What is the status of implementation (in the Western Electricity
Coordinating Council Region and in the other regions) of the
recommendations made or lessons learned in the September 8, 2011
Southwest blackout and from the February 2011 cold weather outages? The
purpose of this panel is not to discuss any ongoing investigation but
to address what steps are being taken to ensure that the lessons
learned are being implemented and are not lost over time. Also, what
have been the primary obstacles in implementing the changes recommended
in the NERC/FERC blackout reports issued in response to these outages?
Panelists:
1. David Souder, Director Operations Planning, PJM Interconnection
2. John Lawhorn, Senior Director, Policy and Economic Study,
Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
3. Jeff Burleson, Vice President, System Planning, Southern Company
4. Joel Beauvais, Associate Assistant Administrator, Office of Air
and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency
5. Melanie M. Frye, Vice President, Operations and Planning,
Western Electric Coordinating Council
6. Michael Moon, Senior Director of Reliability Risk Management,
NERC
4:30 p.m. Commissioner Closing Remarks
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