SAAC, 9:00am - 4:00pm Pacific
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About this meeting: Staff will review regional capital expansion modeling methodology in support of the 9th Plan resource strategy analysis.
Agenda
9:00am – 9:10am Introductions and review of agenda
- Minutes from last meeting
9:10am – 9:45am Review of Internal OptGen Vetting and Scope
- Review of how and why we picked OptGen
- What were we hoping to achieve, timelines and where we landed
9:45am – 10:30am OptGen Methodology Update: Snapshot Years
- How to represent a 20-year study with 7 snapshot years
- Challenges and opportunities
10:30am – 10:45am Break
10:45am – 12:15am OptGen Methodology Update: Clustering
- How many futures are enough to represent the range of risk?
- How did we get to the proposed method?
11:45am – 12:00pm Lunch - adjusted day of meeting
1:00pm – 2:45pm OptGen Methodology Updates
- Review OptGen reserve capabilities
- Discussion of seasonal sampling in OptGen
- Discussion of the dynamic probabilistic reserve
- Enforcing reserves and the associated qualifying resources
- Transmission modeling update
- Market availability update from Transmission Max sensitivity
- Incremental CETA obligation modeling
2:45pm – 3:00pm Break
3:00pm – 3:45pm Update on Needs Assessment Results
- Review adequacy criteria and methodology for converting adequacy metrics to reserve margins
- Updated needs peak and energy/sustained peaking
Topics for Upcoming Meetings and Conclusion
- SAAC/RAAC meetings: February or March
- Topics: Updates on scenario modeling results in OptGen and GENESYS