SPP-ITO LG&E/KU Stakeholder Meeting

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1 . Southwest Power Pool, Inc. SPP-ITO LG&E/KU Stakeholder Meeting November 18, 2009

2 SPP-ITO LG&E/KU Stakeholder Meeting November 18, 2009 Hyatt Regency Louisville 320 W Jefferson Louisville, KY Attendees: Daryn Barker, E.ON-U.S. John Chamberlain, City Utilities Richard Chapman, Owensboro Municipal Utilities Dave Clark, KMPA Calvin Daniels, Energy Consulting Group Becky Davis, EKPC Mike Dickens, E.ON-U.S. Brenda Fite, SPP-ITO Shervon Frazier, E.ON-U.S. Charlie Freibert, E.ON-U.S. Matthew Harward, SPP Jonathan Hayes, SPP-ITO John Humphries, KMPA Jennifer Keisling, E.ON-U.S. David Kelley, SPP-ITO Tim Lyons, OMU Chris Mann, SPP-ITO Larry Monday, E.ON-U.S. Linn Oelker, E.ON-U.S. Katherine Prewitt, SPP-ITO Chadwick Randall, E.ON-U.S. Nate Schweighart, TVA Tom Seeley, E.ON-U.S. Keith Steinmetz, E.ON-U.S. Edward Stottmann, E.ON-U.S. Michael G. Toll, E.ON-U.S. Tom Trauger, Spiegel & McDiarmid Keith Yocum, E.ON-U.S. Materials: All presentation materials can be found at: Fall 2009 Stakeholder Documents Minutes Agenda Item 1 Introductions & Overview SPP Manger of ITO Contract Services Katherine Prewitt opened the meeting at 8:30 am EST. Logistics were discussed covering building safety, breaks, and lunch. Introductions were made of those in attendance. Agenda Item 2 Open Action Items from May, 2008 Stakeholder Meeting There were eleven Open Action Items from the May, 2008 Stakeholder Meeting that were presented and discussed by Katherine Prewitt. Action items remaining open are included on the last page of this document. There was no other discussion on the open action items. Agenda Item 3 ITO Operations Operational data was presented by Chris Lax. The data presented covered: Tariff Admin Statistics Fall

3 Scheduling Statistics TLR Statistics ATC Metrics Questions/Discussion: Daryn Barker questioned the number of summer TLRs. Mike Toll responded that there was a scheduled outage in the area that was a possible cause. Calvin Daniels asked what the cost of Operations was last year with respect to the contract. Katherine Prewitt responded that costs had not bee broken down by function. Keith Yocum mentioned that it could be an option for ITO to restrict data reporting to the import and export paths between LGE-PJM and LGE-MISO. [Action Item] Mike Toll would like to see the flowgate breakdown of how many days the top five most limiting flowgate show up as a constraint. Agenda Item 4 OATI Katherine Prewitt reported that the new OATI OASIS implementation occurred on June 26 th without incident. Next, Jonathan Hayes gave a demonstration of navigation within the new OATI tool. He covered ATC postings, reports and scenario analyzer. Questions/Discussion: It was pointed out by Larry Monday that Priority 7 is Non-Firm. There was a question from Keith Yocum for flowgate file long name and short name clarification. Jonathan Hayes explained that the system keys off the short name and showed the location of the translation tables. Calvin Daniels asked if data will be available after the contract termination. Katherine Prewitt answered that the data will be available and is public information. Keith Yocum also responded that the tool will probably remain the same, but some changes may be seen in OATI around September Another question was asked about individual customers getting data. Jonathan Hayes answered that yes, it can be done by typing in the TSR submitted and it will break down all the affected flowgates and pointed to the scenario analyzer tool. [Action Items] Chris Lax will check with OATI and report to the group to see if OATI can resolve the issue with no details given on scenario analyzer tool. Agenda Item 5 ITO Tariff Studies and Generator Interconnect (GI) Studies Jonathan Hayes updated the group on SIS Metrics, FS Metrics and gave a process overview for GI studies. Questions/Discussion: Tom Trauger asked for clarification on the queue process. Jonathan confirmed that a customer can request studies using a set of assumptions for studies ahead of them in the queue. Daryn Barker asked if an SIS study can be done out of queue but not the Facility Study. Jonathan Hayes answered that yes that was correct. Charlie Freibert asked about progress being made toward separating out the small generator (SGI) requests. Jonathan Hayes responded that he had reviewed the tariff and confirmed that they have to stay in the linear queue. But he pointed out that the customer is not restricted from making assumptions to get to the SIS process. Tom Trauger next asked if there is a timeline estimate fro the GI studies in the queue. Jonathan Hayes responded that while the process and procedures can be detailed, an attempt to estimate a timeline is affected by numerous factors and changing assumptions. Tom Trauger then asked when the first study would be completed. Jonathan Hayes answered that the timeline for completion is 90 days after the agreement, payment and technical data have all been confirmed. Tom Trauger asked if the next in queue has to wait for the facility study to get the SIS. Jonathan Hayes replied that yes, the upgrade information has to be in place before the next study can be started. Daryn Barker Fall

4 asked how often the queue list on OASIS was updated. It is updated weekly as reported by Jonathan Hayes. Agenda Item 6 ITO Review of 2008 Transmission Expansion Plan (TEP) The SPP-ITO review of the 2008 TEP was presented by David Kelley of SPP. Topics covered included Contingency Analysis, Issue Solutions and Powerflow Analysis Results. Questions/Discussion: John Humphries asked for a description of the issue at Lebanon Junction on the 161kV line. Tom Seeley stated that Lebanon Junction is tapped off that line. If the feed is lost from Paddy s Run, the TVA busses run at a higher voltage; thus there would be a higher standard voltage at that Lebanon bus. Charlie Freibert asked for further explanation on Grahamville. Tom Seeley answered that it is a similar voltage issue at DOE. During an outage the busses are getting isolated and causing them to run slightly hot. Agenda Item 7 Flowgate Methodology Nate Schweighart of TVA gave a presentation on available flowgate capability and the AFC methodology. Questions/Discussion: Charlie Freibert asked for clarification on the flowgate slide if the order of the bucket was priority order. Nate Schweighart replied that it was not necessarily in priority order. Mike Toll commented that E.ON. s methodology for TRM is posted and CBM value reserved is zero. Charlie Freibert asked for the difference between the models used for ATC calculations and models used for real time reliability. Nate Schweighart explained real time could not be in numeric order. Models are offline and pull from SDX every hour whereas real-time changes occur more frequently. Some entities are trying to use their EMS models and others are trying to get information from EMS models to gain accuracies in real time. Daryn Barker asked about the occurrence of netting of transmission reservations. Nate Schweighart explained that the present process has changeable values for each flowgate of how much netting, firm, non-firm - values have not been set. Each entity determines the value to set for each flowgate. Daryn Barker followed up asking if values in real time assume 100% netting and Nate Schweighart replied that was correct. Agenda Item 8 Open Forum Stakeholder Feedback Katherine Prewitt closed the meeting by leading an open discussion of any questions or comments. Questions/Discussion: Calvin Daniels asked if there is a transition plan for the ITO contract termination. Katherine Prewitt and Keith Yocum both responded that business will continue as usual until a filing from FERC is received. Based on FERC s filing, transition plans will be made. E.ON. is currently trying to run dual paths of in-house and independently. The goal will be to make a transition as smooth as possible. AFC models will remain the same, as will the RC (TVA). Tom Trauger wanted to know Plan B if FERC does not like the nonindependent ITO. Keith Yocum responded that RFP s had been sent, with one entity initially replying, and then backing out, so no bids were received. MISO is not interested in performing that service. Calvin Daniels asked why SPP was not interested. Katherine Prewitt answered that this service type does not fit into the business model at SPP. A question about Entergy s contract was also posed. Katherine Prewitt answered that Entergy is looking at either joining the RTO or enhancing their ICT with SPP. They will be extending their current contract while this decision is made. The meeting was adjourned. Fall

5 Action Items Item: Assigned To: Status Submit requests for different statistics at future stakeholders meetings to Katherine Prewitt or Keith Yocum ITO will review the proposed DNR/NITS process changes and NITS Application changes based on the feedback from Stakeholders Mike Toll would like to see the flowgate breakdown of how many days the top five most limiting flowgate show up as a constraint. Chris Lax will check with OATI and report to the group to see if OATI can resolve the issue with no details given on scenario analyzer tool. All Attendees Katherine Prewitt Chris Lax Chris Lax Ongoing Carryover from Spring Fall