WICF Event Analysis Focus Group Laurie Williams – Sr. Manager, Reliability Compliance PNM Resources, Inc. WECC EPAS Meeting – February 2019 WWW.WICF.BIZ
WICF Overview • The Western Interconnection Compliance Forum (WICF) is a grass-roots information sharing organization within the Western Interconnection. • Run by and on behalf of entities subject to WECC and NERC compliance requirements. • Volunteers comprise Steering Committee with elected officers. • Over 1,000 members (including non-voting membership) and are growing everyday. • Purpose of WICF is to provide registered functional entities within the Western Interconnection a venue to share knowledge and lessons learned regarding compliance matters, and to collectively develop best practices. • Membership is free and is open to NERC registered entities and their designees. • Many focus groups including: Protection systems, Small-entity Experience, Generation, CIP, New Standards Implementation, and Internal Controls. • Meets 2-3 times per year in person and dozens of times throughout year on conference calls and within focus groups. • 2-day Peer Sharing events on focused topics WWW.WICF.BIZ Slide 2
WICF Event Analysis Focus Group - Purpose The purpose of the Event Analysis Focus Group is to promote a structured and consistent approach to performing event analyses that could affect the reliability and security of the Bulk Electric System, and the sharing of Event Analysis process experiences. WWW.WICF.BIZ Slide 3
WICF Event Analysis Focus Group - Objectives Objective 1: Promote participation in and transparency of the NERC Event Analysis Process. Objective 2: Facilitate open sharing between WICF members of Event Analysis process experiences. Objective 3: Identify and share best practices for analyzing events within the Group and the broader WICF community, such as tools, templates, and procedures. Objective 4: Serve as a clearinghouse for WICF feedback to the NERC Events Analysis Group the Regional Entities regarding Events Analysis experiences. WWW.WICF.BIZ Slide 4
WICF Event Analysis Focus Group - Membership • Membership in the Event Analysis Focus Group is open to all active WICF members. Non-WICF members may be allowed to participate with the consent of the participating Event Analysis Focus Group members. • Over 80 members participate in the group WWW.WICF.BIZ Slide 5
WICF Event Analysis Focus Group – 2019 Meetings 2019 WICF Events Analysis Meeting Schedule Meetings 2nd Tuesday of Month, 11 am-12 pm MT January February March Key elements of EA Program Socializing EA at Entity Peer Share Review and 2019 Planning Post Peer Share Update Monthly Entity Experience WECC Q&A NERC Human Performance Conference April May June Reliability Performance Analysis Subcommittee Developing and Tracking CAPs Metrics for EA Outage Statistics and Annual Reports/Lessons Post-HP Conf Updates Monthly Entity Experience Learned Monthly Entity Experience Monthly Entity Experience WECC Reliability and Security Workshop July August September ThinkReliability Presentation Small Entity Experience Off Monthly Entity Experience Monthly Entity Experience NERC Compliance Workshop October November December Post-HP Conf Updates HP Conference Speaker(s) How EA Affects IRA/Self-Logging/ICPA Monthly Entity Experience Monthly Entity Experience Monthly Entity Experience WECC Human Performance Conference WECC Reliability and Security Workshop WWW.WICF.BIZ Slide 6
Your Contact Information Laurie Williams Sr. Manager, Reliability Compliance PNM Resources, Inc. laurie.Williams@pnmresources.com 505-241-0641 WWW.WICF.BIZ Slide 7
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