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1 1 P age MIDWEST RELIABILITY ORGANIZATION Meeting Minutes of the MRO Planning Committee Meeting MRO Offices, Saint Paul, MN - 8:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. Central 1. Call to Order Chair Gayle Nansel called the meeting to order at 8:05 a.m. A couple changes to the agenda. Chair Nansel would like to move the PC Chair and Vice Chair Elections to agenda item 3e. Consent Agenda. Add MOD 33 discussion to agenda 12d. other business. Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Planning Committee unanimously approved the August 3, 2016 Planning Committee meeting minutes as written. 2. Determination of Quorum and Standards of Conduct and Anti-Trust Guidelines Chair Nansel asked for introductions from the committee members and guests and determined that a quorum of the MRO Planning Committee was present. A complete list of attendees is included as Exhibit A. Mr. Andiappan reviewed MRO s Standards of Conduct and Anti-Trust Guidelines with the meeting attendees. 3. Consent Agenda a. Approve August 3, 2016 Meeting Minutes Chair Nansel asked the members if there were any requests for changes to the meeting minutes. No suggested corrections were made. Upon motion duly made by Florum and seconded by Anderton, the Planning Committee unanimously approved the August 3, 2016 Planning Committee meeting minutes as written. b. Review 2017 Proposed Meeting Dates The PC reviewed the 2017 revised PC/OC meeting dates as provided by MRO staff. The proposed PC dates were changed to February 8, May 25, August 2 and October 24, The OC dates were changed (pending OC Committee approval) to February 7, May 23, August 1 and October 26 th. The Reliability Conferences will be May 24 th and October 25 th as presented on the calendar. MRO Staff to send out confirmation of new dates via outlook invite. c. Sector Election Results The PC Committee reviewed the 2017 Election Results and accepted the proposed PC members. A change was noted for the At-Large-Nominations; Kevin Ma should have been listed under NERC SAMS. The PC Committee also discussed the status of the Model Building Subcommittee (MBS). This discussion was moved to item 9b. on the agenda.

2 2 P age The PC Committee accepted the proposed 2017 Planning Committee Nominations. Upon motion duly made by Weiland and seconded by Torgerson, the Planning Committee unanimously approved the 2017 Planning Committee nominations. d. NERC System Analysis and Modeling Subcommittee (SAMs) The committee voted on the NERC Committee representative nominations for NERC SAMS. The candidates were: Kerry Marinan, Consultant Transmission Planning Engineer, American Transmission Company LLC. David Duebner, Sr Manager System Modeling, Midcontinent Independent System Operator Chris Colson, Ph.D. PE, Planning Lead, Western Area Power Administration Kevin (shaohua) Ma, System Controls Engineer, Manitoba Hydro A ballot was created and PC members were asked to cast their vote. The results were unanimous to recommend Kerry Marinan to the committee. Upon motion duly made by Weiland and seconded by Torgerson, the Planning Committee unanimously nominated Kerry Marinan for the NERC SAMS position. e. PC Chair and Vice Chair Elections Chair Nansel asked the Committee for nominations for the Chair and Vice Chair positions. Burmester nominated, and Wells seconded the following nominations: Terry Torgerson- Vice Chair Gayle Nansel- Chair Both accepted the nominations. Upon motion duly made by Burmester and seconded by Wells, the Planning Committee unanimously nominated Gayle Nansel for another term as Chair and Terry Torgerson as Vice Chair of the Planning Committee. 4. Chairman s Report Mark Wehlage represented the MRO PC at the last MRO Board Meeting, and reported there are no outstanding directives from the Board at this time. 5. MRO Risk Strategy a. Update on MRO PC Related Activities- Gayle Nansel, Chair SPP will give an update at the February 2017 meeting. Nuclear retirements- MISO/SPP update Is there a role for MRO for the PC group? 6. Special Protection System Activities Mr. Richard Quest updated the group on the SPS activities and schedule for MRO staff will provide to PC group.

3 3 P age 7. NERC a. Update on Reliability Assessments- Salva Andiappan Mr. Andiappan gave an update on NERC Reliability assessments. b. Update on NERC Project GMD- Sam Zewdie Mr. Zewdie provided an overview of his report regarding the updates of the GMD standard and reported the standard is still awaiting FERC approval at this time. 8. Planning Coordinator Updates a. Manitoba Hydro- Bagen Bagen Mr. Bagan reviewed the Manitoba Hydro presentation. (get this from Salva) b. Midwest ISO- Ryan Westphal 2016 MISO LTRA MISO presentation (get this from Salva) c. Sask Power- Wayne Guttormson Mr. Guttormson reviewed the NERC 2016 Long Term Reliability Assessment presentation. (get from Salva) d. SPP RTO- Jason Speer SPP (get presentation from Salva) Mr. Speer presented his presentation to the committee. e. Review and Accept Planning Coordinators 2016 NERC LTRA Report- Chris Haley-SPP The Planning Committee unanimously accepted the 2016 LTRA PC Draft Report. f. Topics for planning Coordinator- Salva Andiappan Update from SPP on the study TPL7/ MOD 33 MISO SPP Study kicked off in November maybe bring to May meeting How the Transmission planning process works- (February) 9. MRO Subcommittee Reports a. Report on Combining MBS-MMTF- Jason Espeseth Mr. Espeseth reported on MRO Model Building Subcommittee activities. Dissolve the MBS and members are welcome to join the MMTF. Validation of performance Coordinate current processes and/or develop new processes and prove that models can be made for validation purposes. b. Model Building Subcommittee- Alan Burbach Mr. Burbach gave his subcommittee report on MRO 2016 Model series development. Potential merger of the MBS and MMTF There is currently nothing that the MBS group is working on in 2017 and no further meetings are scheduled. The planning committee (PC) proposed to disband the MBS on December 31, And recommended to add the MBS group to the MMTF exploder list.

4 4 P age The PC also requested that the MMTF continue with the development of the potential process document on PC-to PC coordination and MISO and SPP RTO build test models to show coordination. The MMTF are to provide periodic reports at each of the PC quarterly meetings and a final report at the October 24th board meeting. c. MRO Model Task Force- Jason Espeseth Mr. Espeseth gave his report on the MRO Model Task Force. 10. Eastern Interconnection Reliability Assessment Group a. Multi Regional Modeling Working Group- Kerry Marinan (Sam Zewdie presented in Kerry s absence) Mr. Sam Zewdie provided a report. MMWG will no longer be an active group is now a stakeholder group Recognize his service at the next PC or Board meeting- Dan will talk to him about this. Recognition for Marinan will be included in the minutes and/or mail a fleece jacket to him. b. ERAG Seasonal and Long-Term Assessments- Sam Zewdie Mr. Sam Zewdie reported on the ERAG Seasonal and long term assessments. c. ERAG Steering Committee- Salva Andiappan Mr. Salva Andiappan reviewed his report which was included in the committee packet. ERAG Special Weather Study Reliability Assessment Issues and Lessons learned during the 2016 Reliability assessment ERAG SC Sunset 11. NERC Committee Reports a. Planning Committee- Dale Burmester PMU Placement and Installation Modeling Distributed Energy Resources in Dynamic Load models b. Transmission Availability Data Systems Working Group- Rich Quest (get document from Salva) TADS Communication Coding decision tree TADS Training Outages with Unknown Cause Quality Assurance Future Considerations c. Generation Availability Data System Working Group- Katie Ege GADS Wind Inactive State EFORd GADS (DRI)

5 5 P age d. Demand Response Availability Data System Working Group- Sam Zewdie DADS Outreach/Training 2016 work plan and action items o Looking for a new Chair /Vice Chair for 2017 e. Modeling Working Group- Kevin Ma Kevin Ma s report was reviewed in his absence. 12. Other Business a. MRO 2016 Strategic Objections Review the PC Goals and Objectives to assure they align with the MRO Board s Five Strategic Objectives (See attached MRO Standards Committees goals update as an example). Will review at a later meeting b. Review MRO Planning Committee Charter The committee reviewed the redlined version of the PC Charter and made the following changes: The following was added to the PC Charter: o Assist with development and support the MRO strategic objectives related to Planning Committee Activities. Upon motion duly made by Sondermann and seconded by Anderton, the Planning Committee unanimously accepted the changes to the MRO Planning Committee Charter. (absent- Florum, Burmester, Torgerson) c. MOD 33-1 discussion (salva send presentation) MRO will not proceed with SAG and with withdraw and identify someone to work with NATF. Chair Nansel will ask Chris to look into this. Upon motion duly made by Wells and seconded by Burmester, the Planning Committee unanimously accepted to not proceed with SAG and will withdraw and identify someone to work with NAFT. 13. Adjourn The MRO Planning Committee adjourned at 3:46 PM Upon motion duly made by Burmester and seconded by Wehlage, the Planning Committee unanimously adjourned the meeting. (absent- Florum, Anderton, Torgerson)

6 6 P age Exhibit A Meeting Attendees Committee Members Present Dale Burmester American Transmission Company, LLC Rob Wells ITC Holdings Dennis Florom Lincoln Electric System Gayle Nansel Western Area Power Administration, Chair Mark Wehlage Xcel Energy, Vice Chair Randy Anderton Rochester Public Utilities Terry Torgerson Dairyland Power Cooperative William Sondermann Central Iowa Power Cooperative Bagen Bagen Manitoba Hydro (via teleconference) Wayne Guttormson Saskatchewan Power Company (via teleconference) Committee Members Not Present Jason Weiers Otter Tail Power Company MRO Staff Dan Schoenecker John Seidel Salva Andiappan Sam Zewdie Lisa Stellmaker Richard Quest Jeff Norman Richard Burt Guests Ryan Westphal Jason Espesth Katie Ege Jason Espeseth Jason Speer Candice Krutzer Tom Mielnek Alan Burbach Chris Haley Vice President Operations Sr. Manager of Operations and Reliability Manager of Reliability Assessments and Performance Analysis Staff Engineer Operations Administrator and Office Manager Principal Systems Protection Engineer Sr. Risk Assessment and Mitigation Engineer VP- Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Standards MISO Xcel Energy (via teleconference) American Transmission Company, Xcel Energy (via teleconference) SPP (via teleconference) (via teleconference) MidAmerican Energy Company (via teleconference) Lincoln Electric System (via teleconference) SPP (via teleconference)

MEETING AGENDA. MRO Protective Relay Subcommittee. February 16 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. February 17, :00 a.m. to Noon

MEETING AGENDA. MRO Protective Relay Subcommittee. February 16 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. February 17, :00 a.m. to Noon MEETING AGENDA MRO Protective Relay Subcommittee February 16 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. February 17, 2017 8:00 a.m. to Noon MRO Corporate Offices, King Conference Center St. Paul, MN 55102 380 St. Peter Street