MEETING AGENDA MRO Protective Relay Subcommittee June 12, 2018 9:00 a.m. to Noon WebEx 380 St. Peter Street #800 Saint Paul, MN 55102 P. 651.855.1760 F. 651.855.1712 W. MidwestReliability.org
MEETING AGENDA-MRO Protective Relay Subcommittee June 12, 2018 MEETING AGENDA MRO Protective Relay Subcommittee June 12, 2018 WebEx/Conference Call AGENDA ITEM ACTION 1 Call to Order Greg Hill Information Item a. Determination of Quorum b. Standards of Conduct and Anti-Trust Guidelines Mike Bocovich 2 Consent Agenda Action Item Approve Meeting Minutes of April 4, 2018 Approve the June 12, 2018 Meeting Agenda 3 Chairman s Report Greg Hill Discussion Item 4 Secretary s Report Mike Bocovich and Sam Zewdie Discussion Item 5 NERC Activities Discussion Items Update on NERC SPCS Mike Bocovich NERC Misoperations Reporting Process Mike Bocovich 6 Misoperations Mike Bocovich Discussion Items a. 2018 Q1 Results and Trending b. MIDAS Review Process 7 Event Analysis Report Bill Kunkel and Mike Bocovich Discussion Item a. Transmission Events Since Last PRS Meeting 8 Update on SPS Review Team Activities Mike Bocovich a. Review upcoming SPA s for 2018 Discussion Item 9 Other Business a. Discussion Item 10 Next Meeting Action Item a. Determine future 2018 PRS meeting dates August 14-15, 2018- In person meeting at MRO offices. 11 Adjourn Action Item
AGENDA 1 - Determination of Quorum and Standards of Conduct AGENDA 1 Determination of Quorum and Standards of Conduct and Anti-Trust Guidelines Committee Roster Name Role Sector or Locale Company Greg Hill Chair Nebraska Nebraska Public Power District John Grimm Member Minnesota Xcel Energy Alex Bosgoed Member Canada Sask Power Brian Fettig Member Dakotas Montana-Dakota Utilities Terry Fett Member Iowa Central Iowa Power Cooperative Grant Gunderson Member Minnesota Minnkota Dennis Lu Member Canada Manitoba Hydro Casey Malskeit Member Nebraska Omaha Public Power District Wayne Miller Member Iowa ITC Holdings Steve Mittelsteadt Member Dakotas Basin Electric Power Cooperative Derrick Schlangen Member Minnesota Great River Energy Greg Sessler Member Wisconsin American Transmission Company Robert Soper Member Dakotas Western Area Power Administration Michael Weir Member Wisconsin Dairyland Power Cooperative Standards of Conduct Reminder: Standards of Conduct prohibit MRO staff, committee, subcommittee, and task force members from sharing non-public transmission sensitive information with anyone who is either an affiliate merchant or could be a conduit of information to an affiliate merchant. Anti-trust Reminder: Participants in Midwest Reliability Organization meeting activities must refrain from the following when acting in their capacity as participants in Midwest Reliability Organization activities (i.e. meetings, conference calls, and informal discussions): Discussions involving pricing information; and Discussions of a participants marketing strategies; and Discussions regarding how customers and geographical areas are to be divided among competitors; and Discussions concerning the exclusion of competitors from markets; and Discussions concerning boycotting or group refusals to deal with competitors, vendors, or suppliers.
DRAFT MEETING MINUTES MIDWEST RELIABILITY ORGANIZATION Protective Relay Subcommittee MRO Offices Saint Paul, MN April 3, 2018 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm April 4, 2018 8:00 am to 12:00 pm 1. Call to Order a. Determination of Quorum Protective Relay Subcommittee (PRS) Secretary Bocovich called the meeting to order at 1:00 pm and welcomed all those in attendance. A quorum was determined. The following PRS members, guests, and MRO staff were present during the meeting: PRS Members Present Alex Bosgoed, SaskPower Casey Malskeit, OPPD (Phone) Brian Fettig, MDU Greg Sessler, ATC (Phone) Wayne Miller, ITCM John Grimm, XCEL, Vice Chair Dennis Lu, MHEB Michael Weir, DPC (Phone) Robert Soper, WAPA (Phone) Terry Fett, CIPCO Greg Hill, NPPD, Chair Derrick Schlangen, GRE (Phone) Steve Mittelsteadt, BEPC Members Not Present Grant Gunderson, MPC Staff Present Mike Bocovich, MRO, Secretary William Kunkel, MRO Sam Zewdie, MRO Guests Present Mark Gutzmann, Xcel b. Standards of Conduct and Anti-Trust Guidelines Pursuant to Policy and Procedure 4, Mr. Bocovich reviewed the Standards of Conduct and Anti-Trust Guidelines. c. Non-Disclosure Agreement verifications- WebEx participants Mr. Bocovich verified all in attendance has signed an NDA. 2. Consent Agenda a. Approve Meeting Minutes of January 4, 2018 The subcommittee members reviewed the prior meeting minutes and were solicited for comments, additions, or changes. The Protective Relay Subcommittee approved the PRS minutes from January 4, 2018 as written upon motion by Mr. Mittelsteadt, seconded by Mr. Miller. b. Approve the April 3-4, 2018 Meeting Agenda The subcommittee members reviewed the meeting agenda and were solicited for comments, additions, or changes.
The Protective Relay Subcommittee approved the April 3/4, 2017 agenda as written. 3. Chairman s Report The Chair of the PRS, Greg Hill stated that he had reviewed the agenda and had an interest to discuss the event analysis and category 1a guidance document in length later on. 4. Secretary s Report Mr. Bocovich stated that he has added the misoperations report in the agenda and it is going to be discussed in detail during this meeting. 5. NERC Activities a. Update on NERC SPCS Mr. Gutzmann provided report on the recent activities of the SPCS. He gave the status of Guidance documents on PRC-019, PRC-023, and PRC-024. Mr. Gutzmann explained that reactive generator undesired tripping analysis/tracking is not ongoing and the SPCS might not be the proper group for this activity. Finally, he mentioned that the SPCS has provided several SMEs to support the ERO Misoperations Task Force on DRI and the final product is being reviewed. b. NERC Misoperations reporting Process Mr. Bocovich explained that the individual company submittals into MIDAS are being reviewed and he is working with the entities to assure their misoperations and total operations count are accurate. Mr. Bocovich also stated that NERC is preparing a guidance document with examples to help entities accurately submit their counts. Also he mentioned that some MRO entities are participating on a series of WECC webinars that walk through examples on establishing misoperation and total operation counts consistently. The PRS group discussed the definition tab of the MIDAS reporting template related to the low side of transformers. c. NERC MIDAS Team Formation Mr. Bocovich discussed the formation of NERC MIDAS team to develop a DRI. The outcome of their work will be a development of better reporting instruction. He asked if there are people who might want to participate in the new team even though, time to register for the team has passed. d. Standard Application Guide Team Being Formed for PRC-002-2 Mr. Zewdie informed the group that the MRO Standards Committee has created a Subject Matter Expert Team (SMET) to develop a Standard Application Guide (SAG) to address PRC-002-2 R4.3. He asked the PRS members to volunteer if they are interested or to nominate someone no later than April 18, 2018. e. NPPD Lessons Learned Approved and Issued by NERC Mr. Hill discussed the lesson learned document about breaker failure due to trip coil polarity that NERC has approved and published. f. PRC-024 Implementation Guidance document Mr. Bocovich discussed the draft implementation guidance document on PRC-024 R2. The document was developed by SPCS sub-group and he was asked to review it. As it currently stands, he doesn t indorse the document. He stated in general to use the point of interconnection voltage rather than the generator terminals as values to be used in this standard implementation. 6. Misoperations
a. MIDAS Review Process Mr. Bocovich discussed that the MIDAS review process document was written by the request of some SPP members. He discussed the document in detail and asked the group to review the draft process document and provide comments back to him. The group discussed the idea of not scrubbing the misoperation reports before sharing amongst the members or giving companies identification numbers so it will help on trending and analysis. b. 2017 Q4 Results and Trending Mr. Bocovich explained the MRO misoperation results and trending through Q4 2017. He stated the MRO 2017 Misoperation rate is 9.1% and that the overall total misoperation count per year has been consistently dropping since 2008. Mr. Bocovich also demonstrated the abilities of the MIDAS tool in great detail by producing a variety of reports which generated a lot of discussion by the PRS. He also generated reports to compare MRO and SPP RE misoperation data. c. Discussion on Total Operation Counts Mr. Bocovich explained there were 21 misoperations reported for Q4 2017 in MRO but he removed 6 of them as they didn t qualify. d. Non-Disclosure required for 2017 Misops Mr. Bocovich discussed that everyone needs to have a signed NDA in order to view the MIDAS misoperations data being shown in the meeting. 7. Event Analysis Report a. Transmission Events Since Last PRS Meeting Mr. Kunkel went through four event reports submitted to MRO since the last PRS meeting on January 4, 2018. b. Review Event Category 1.a Guidance Document Mr. Kunkel discussed the category 1a event guidance document. 8. Update on SPS Review Team Activities a. Discuss Recent RAS Reviews and updated Schedule Mr. Zewdie stated that MRO staff and the SPSWG held webinars on January 19, 2018 and February 23, 2018. He reported that the SPSWG reviewed the following RASs and reached the following conclusions: The Heskett RAS retirement study submitted by MDU was approved. The Boundary Dam Phase Shifter RAS five-year review study submitted by SPC which made changes to the existing RAS was approved. The Port Edwards RAS retirement study submitted by ATC was accepted pending completion of facility upgrades identified in the documentation. The Fieldon capacitor bypass RAS five-year review study submitted by XCEL was sent back to be updated to reflect recent reinforcements in the area. The Eau Claire cross-trip RAS five-year review study submitted by XCEL was sent back to include explanation on the continued justification and effectiveness of the RAS. The Tiffin RAS retirement study submitted by MEC was sent back with questions that require follow-up with MEC to better understand the conditions that allow its retirement. Mr. Zewdie stated the following are an upcoming RAS Reviews per the five-year review process:
XCEL Mankato Energy Center (Q2 2018) Alliant Energy Edgewater Generating Plant (Q2 2018) MHEB Dorsey/Whiteshell 230 kv (Q2 2018) MHEB Ravens Lake (Q2 2018) MHEB Grand Rapids (Q2 2018) b. Review Updated MRO RAS Procedure for PRC-012-2 Mr. Zewdie informed the group that MRO staff has updated the MRO RAS review procedure to reference PRC-012-2 and to update the RAS definition per the NERC Glossary of Terms. 9. Other Business a. Integration of entities from SPP RE and impact on PRS Mr. Dan Schoenecker provided an update on the transition work and outreach efforts by MRO to integrate entities from SPP RE. He informed the PRS that MRO is in the process of learning about SPP groups and discussion is ongoing about different committee structures and models to form. He stated that MRO hasn t decided yet how to incorporate the new SPP members onto PRS. SPP entities need to join MRO as a member to join the MRO committee structure. He notified the group that SPP RTO has submitted an application to be an MRO member. 10. Next Meeting a. Determine future 2018 PRS meeting dates The next webcast PRS meeting is scheduled for Tuesday June 12, 2018, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. The in person meeting is scheduled for August 14th -15th. 11. Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 10:17 am on April 4, 2018.