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Wind Workshop

March 17, 2008
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
ERCOT Austin
8000 Metropolis (Building E), Suite 100
Austin, TX 78744
Room 206
Teleconference: 866-469-3239
Meeting number: 359 308 194
Meeting password: wind123!@#

Agenda

1

Introduction

J. Dumas

 9:00 a.m.

2

Current Operational Challenges

L. Villanueva/
T. Mortensen

 9:15 a.m.

 

  • Computing West - North CSC Limits

 

 

 

  • Potential IROLs

 

 

 

  •  Local Voltage & Thermal Issues (OOME)

 

9:45 a.m.

 

  •  High Voltage

 

 

 

  • Outages

 

 

 

  • Registration Capabilities

 

 

 

  • Training on Response to Voltage Control (TO/Resource responsibility)

 

 

3

Balancing Energy & Schedule changes

J. Dumas/
T. Mortensen

10:15 a.m.

 

  • Balancing Energy Offset (related to Wind)

 

 

 

  • Schedule updates

 

 

 

  • Some Wind QSEs have submitted down balancing bids & some have not

 

 

 

  • Some Wind QSEs have the HSL, Planned output and LSL all equal in the Resource Plan (Possible Protocol Change needed)

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

Break

 

10:45 a.m.

5

Upcoming Challenges

W. Lasher

11:00 a.m.

 

  • Follow up questions from February 27th GE study review

 

 

 

  •  Status of the Generation Interconnect for Wind Generation

 

 

6

Wind Forecasting

AWS True Wind

 1:00 p.m.

 

  • Presentation by AWS True Wind on wind power forecasting

 

 

 

  • Wind in SPD

 

2:00 p.m.

 

  • Forecast Results

 

 

 

  • Proposed PRR to use AWS True Wind 80% forecast

 

 

7

Break

 

 2:45 p.m.

8

Ancillary Services

 

 3:00 p.m.

 

  • Current Ancillary Services available to deal with Wind Generation

 

 

 

  • Incorporating Weather changes into Ancillary Service Requirements

 

 

 

  • Changes to Ancillary Services to deal with increase Wind Generation

 

 

9

Panel Discussion

Planning,
Operations, &
AWS Expert

4:00 p.m.

 

  • Operating standards for Wind

 

 

 

  • Existing Wind Owner practices (Reactive & Energy related)

 

 

 

  • Operating with Wind Generation in the Nodal Market

 

 

 

  • Address issues captured today

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key Documents

Mar 13, 2008 - ppt - 4.9 MB
Mar 13, 2008 - ppt - 1 MB
Mar 14, 2008 - ppt - 5.6 MB
Mar 14, 2008 - ppt - 4.3 MB
Mar 13, 2008 - ppt - 93.5 KB
Mar 13, 2008 - ppt - 117 KB

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