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1 Meeting Minutes Operating Committee September 11-12, 2018 Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 1300 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, MN 55403 A regular Meeting of the nerc Operating Committee (OC) was held on September 11-12, 2018, in Minneapolis. Minnesota. The Meeting agenda and the attendance list are affixed as Exhibits A and B, respectively; and individual statements and minority opinions as Exhibits C and D, respectively. The Meeting presentations are posted in a separate file at OC Presentations. OC Chair Lloyd Linke convened the Meeting at 1:00 CDT on Tuesday, September 11. Sandy Shiflett announced that a quorum was present, read the Notice of Public Meeting and referred the Committee to the nerc Antitrust Compliance Guidelines.

2 Chair s Opening Remarks Chair Linke welcomed members and observers to the Meeting and recognized the recently appointed OC members as a result of the June election. Consent Agenda (Item 2) Chair Linke noted that there were no changes to the Minutes and he requested a motion to approve. Doug Hils made the motion to approve the Minutes which carried without dissent. By consent, the Committee approved the Minutes of the June 5-6, 2018 Meeting . Chair s Remarks (Item 3) Chair Linke reported on August 15, 2018 Member Representatives Committee (MRC) Meeting and the August 16, 2018 Board of Trustees (Board) Meeting . The major discussion items included providing the presentation that Chair Linke gave at the MRC Meeting on the OC and our major accomplishments of the past two years and the Boards approval of the Committee members elected during the recent OC/PC election process.

3 Chair Linke reported that Leonard Kula s resignation from the OC created a vacancy on the OC Nominating Committee . Chair Linke nominated and the OC approve the appointment of Meg Albright to the Nominating Committee as his replacement. Meeting Highlights 1. Chair Linke recognized the recently elected OC members as a result of the June election. 2. Chair Linke appointed Meg Albright to the Nominating Committee . 3. The OC approved the EAS Scope document v 4. The OC approved the Reference Document and Reliability Guideline Communications Process Document. 5. Howard Gugel, nerc presented a request from the SC for the OC to review the BAL-002-3 SAR.

4 Chair Linked assigned the review of the SAR to the RS. 6. The OC approved the Methods for Establishing IROLS Reliability Guideline, the IROL Framework Assessment Report, and the BPS-Connected Inverter-Based Performance Reliability Guideline. Meeting Minutes Operating Committee Meeting September 11-12, 2018 2 OC Action Item Review (Item 4) Vice Chair Zwergel reviewed the list of action items and reported that several have been completed or are on the agenda for this Meeting . The revised action item list is attached as Exhibit E. Doug Peterchuck recommended making sure the updated RTA Quality compliance guideline item in the action plan was a new one for this year and ensure that the older RTA compliance guideline was closed.

5 Chair Linke state that he would review the plan and ensure this took place. Operating Reliability Subcommittee (ORS) Status Report (Item 5a) ORS Vice Chair Chris Pilong summarized the subcommittee s status report which was included in the agenda package. Highlights of the report include: The ORS continues to monitor pending changes to the MISO and PJM Reliability Plans. These expected minor changes are required due to the OVEC Balancing Area moving from MISO to the PJM RC area. ORS will provide an update at the December OC Meeting . ORS received an update from California ISO on their transition to an RC role. CAISO has prepared a draft Reliability Plan that was shared with the group.

6 At the request of the OC, ORS has re-examined the draft Reliability Coordinator Reliability Plan Reference Document. The revised document maintains a forum for RCs to discuss pending changes to other RC s plans, while shifting the assessment of an entity s capability from ORS to the nerc registration process. The group has some concerns about the OC suggestion to incorporate a notification to Regional Entities, and will seek clarification of the OC s intent. Reliability Plans how do we notify the RC that the reliability plans are approved? Are the Minutes sufficient along with posting them on the nerc website? Currently only plans that are approved are posted on the website.

7 If a plan is not endorsed it is not posted. For transparency purposes, should it be posted that a plan was not endorsed or should that information just be found in the Meeting Minutes noting it was not endorsed? o Overall consensus of OC: Present the plan as it was originally presented. Continue with the current practice. No letter or message indicating the ORS/OC did not endorse a plan. Information will only be indicated in the Minutes or lack of posting on the nerc website. As part of the 2018 work plan, the ORS has formed a task team that will review and revise the ORS Scope document. Changes are required due to the transition of reliability tools away from nerc .

8 The final version will be revised to reflect changes to the ORS role in reviewing RC Reliability Plans. The Chairs of ORS and RS presented overviews of the activities of their respective Subcommittees at each other s recent meetings. The groups will continue to look at ways to assist each other with their work plans. The ORS has reviewed the ERSWG final measures to determine if there should be revisions to the group Scope. Specifically, Measures 1 (inertia), 2 (initial frequency deviation), 4 (frequency response), and 6 (Ramping capability) were discussed. The ORS will continue to monitor RS Meeting Minutes Operating Committee Meeting September 11-12, 2018 3 activities related to these measures and will assist as needed.

9 ORS does not recommend a scope change to do so. ORS continues to receive updates from the EIDSN Steering Committee on the IDC Tool enhancements. Specifically, the Parallel Flow Visualization (PFV) project is intended to improve the data quality used by the IDC during curtailment of transactions and may eventually result in changes to both nerc Reliability Standards and NAESB Business Practices. The 12-18 month field trial began on schedule in September 2107. Throughout the field trial, ORS will receive updates on tool performance from the IDCWG. At present, the PFV seems to be functioning correctly. Net Actual and Net Scheduled Interchange - There are current plans to move this initiative to a web based portal application hosted by EIDSN.

10 EIDSN has indicated that this transition should be completed in late 2018 or early 2019. ORS members discussed operational impacts and observations related to severe weather events through summer 2018. The Electricity Infrastructure Security Council (Frank Koza) provided a presentation related to Black Sky scenarios. EIS is working with regulators and the nuclear industry to consider the use of nuclear generation to support public health and safety following extreme contingencies/events. Resources Subcommittee (RS) Status Report (Item 5b) RS Chair Tom Pruitt provided an overview of subcommittee s status report which was included in the agenda package.