The Operating Committee last week endorsed changes to Manuals 3A and 13 while the Market Implementation Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 28.

Manual 3A: Energy Management System (EMS) Model Updates and Quality Assurance (QA)

Reason for Changes: General update.

Impacts: Updates contact information; definitions; adds model validation and benchmark tests in response to FERC audit finding 13.

Manual 13: Emergency Procedures 

Reason for Changes: 2014 Day Ahead Scheduling Reserve Requirement; Updates to terms, procedures.

Impact: Sets Load Forecast Error and Forced Outage Rate effective Jan. 1. References to interruptible load for reliability (ILR), no longer a valid term, are removed. Revised order of emergency procedures so that curtailment of non-essential plant and building load is curtailed as step 6, prior to issuing a manual load dump warning (step 7) and voltage reduction (step 8).

Manual 28: Operating Agreement Accounting

Reason for Changes: Section 5 – ER13-2413; Section 6 – Docket #ER14-297.

Impact: Changes section 6.3 to increase penalties for resources that fail to provide assigned amounts of Tier 2 Synchronized Reserve. Changes section 5.2.6 to clarify the requirements that must be satisfied in order for wind resources to be eligible to receive Lost Opportunity Cost (LOC) credits.