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October 16, 2009 - Technical Committee Agenda

Northwest Power and Conservation Council
851 SW Sixth Avenue
Portland, OR 97204

Conference Line: 1.800.786.1922, guest code 53922423#
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10:00 AM Introductions, Review Agenda (45k Word)
10:10 AM Council’s Annual Resource Adequacy Assessment (John Fazio)
  • Assessment performed for Sixth Power Plan
  • Questions: (Fazio/Massoud Jourabchi)
    • Compared to last year:
      - 1 hour peak load increased more than 18 hour increase
      - Increase in hydro capacity
    • Economic adequacy thresholds based on 6th Power Plan
11:15 AM Improvements slated for Next Year’s Assessment
  • Reevaluation of contributions to Sustained Summer & Winter Peaking Capacity of:
    • Wind Capacity (Ben Kujala)
    • Hydro Capacity (Mary Johannis/Don Long)
  • Others
12:00 PM Lunch (on your own)
1:00 PM Resource Adequacy Assessment Metrics
  • Background on GENESYS LOLP Modeling & Ongoing Improvements (John Fazio)
  • BPA LOLP Project (Rob Diffely)
  • Proposed PSRI Review of NW Resource Adequacy Metrics
  • Brainstorming Discussion of Metrics to use for NW going forward (All)
2:30 PM Work Plan for 2009-10 (John Fazio)
3:00 PM Schedule Next Meeting & Discuss Steering Committee Meeting
Materials:
>> 2009 PNW Resource Adequacy Assessment - Presentation (230k PowerPoint) | Spreadsheet (430k Excel)
>> Hydro Capacity Analysis (1mb PowerPoint)
>> Developing an Adequacy Metric (240k PowerPoint)
>> Review of PNW Resource Adequacy Assessment Methodology (100k PowerPoint)
>> Industry Standard Metric for LOLP (275k PowerPoint)
>> Contribution to Capacity Adequacy & Reflecting Wind Integration Needs (14mb PowerPoint)
>> Sustained Hydro Peaking Capacity Study (50k PDF)