1.

Antitrust Admonition

Moore

9:30 a.m.

2.

Agenda Review

Moore

3.

Update on ROS, TAC and Board Activity on PLWG Matters

1. TAC Activity: TAC Principles of Consistency
2. ROS Activity: PGRR030 New Planning Guide Section 8A, Declaration of Resource Data Accuracy
3. Review PLWG PGRR Status Bar

Moore

4.

PGRR030 New Planning Guide Section 8A, Declaration of Resource Data Accuracy and 8B, Declaration of Adequate Water Rights {Creates a standardized declaration form to facilitate compliance with the declaration submission requirement in paragraph (2) of Section 5.3.2 and modifies this paragraph to require submission of this standardized declaration.

1. Consider revised language to better address definition of IE
2. Approve revised language

Bigbee

5.

PGRR028 Evaluation of Compliance of Reactive Requirements {Defines ERCOT’s process for evaluation proposed Generation Resources’ ability to provide reactive power.  Protocol Section 3.15, Voltage Support, defines reactive capability requirements for Generation Resources.  Paragraph (3) of Protocol Section 16.5, Registration of a Resource Entity requires ERCOT to opine upon the capability of the proposed Generation Resource’s ability to meet these requirements}

1. Review ERCOT’s revised language as posted by ERCOT on PLWG Meeting site

Flores

6.

PGRR031 Implement 95% Facility Rating Limit in the Planning Criteria  {Changes the planning criteria to plan system improvements when studies indiciate existing facilities will be loaded up to 95% of their applicable rating}.

1.  Review language for two updated alternative approaches defining the 95% threshold
2. Approve one or both for submission to ROS

Billo

7.

PGRR032 Stakeholder Review of Resource Registration Data Requirements. Describes the process for review and approval of changes, additions or deletions to the required Resource Registration data as developed by RDGW.

1. Review language for any concerns

Moore/Showalter

8.

NPRR567 Stakeholder Review of Resource Registration Data Requirements (Companion rule with PGRR032). Describes the process for review and approval of changes, additions or deletions to the required Resource Registration data; define a new term, Resource Registration, to ensure consistency when referencing Resource data throughout the Protocols, Planning Guides and Other Binding Documents as developed by RDWG.

1. Review language for any concerns

Moore/Showalter

9.

NPRR562 Subsynchronous Resonance {Discuss commentary from Sept 9 SSR Workshop re: potential need to develop a follow up PGRR to identify the assumptions for use in the SSR studies

Moore

10.

Final OPSTF Issues List {Review PLWG discussion during June 26 PLWG meeting re: items on Final OPSTF Issues List; have further discussion to decide if additional Planning Guide revisions are needed

1. Issue 5C: Discrete load additions [ Do current TSP load forecasting processes capture the significant load addtions?]
2. Issue 10: Security constrained deliverability of ancillary services [Should a methodology be developed to account for ancillary service requirements in the generation dispatch or load response in planning and operating studies?]

Gnanam

11.

Additional Items

Moore

12.

Next Meeting: October 23, 2013

Moore

Adjourn

3:30 p.m.