IEEE SCC21 1547 Standards Development

IEEE SCC21 1547 Standards Development P1547.7 Draft Guide to Conducting Distribution Impact Studies for Distributed Resource Interconnection Working Group Meeting Minutes August 10-11 – San Francisco, California

The meeting of the P1547.7 working group was called to order by Robert (Bob) Saint, chair P1547.7 (Annex A – Attendees). The agenda (Annex B) for the two-day meeting was presented and the IEEE SA bylaws on patents in standards and other guidelines were reviewed and discussed (see PDF 311 KB at URL http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc21/1547.7/1547.7_archives.html). The statuses of other 1547 series documents and working groups were then discussed.

The working group then reviewed the scope and purpose of P1547.7. Bob Saint focused attention on the following excerpts of the scope and purpose.

This guide describes criteria, scope, and extent for engineering studies …

Distribution system impact study scope and extent are described as: - functions of identifiable characteristics of the distributed resource, - functions the area electric power system, and - functions the interconnection.

Criteria are described for determining the necessity of impact mitigation.

Establishment of this guide allows … a described methodology for: - when distribution system impact studies are appropriate, - what data is required, - how they are performed, and - how the study results are evaluated.

The planned schedule for the working group and the document for the time period between August 2010 and the next tentatively planned working group meeting tentatively planned for week of Feb 8, 2011 was then reviewed. The minutes of the last full work group meeting (February 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was them reviewed and approved. Each work group member then introduced themselves and states their interest in IEEE Std 1547.7.

The group then reviewed the IEEE Std 1547.7 history and document status, with a focus on identifying what had been accomplished since the last meeting and the gaps in the document. The remainder of August 10 was spent reviewing the formal comments received on draft 4.0 and resolving those comments. During this process, other changes were made to draft 4.0 as issues relevant to the comments were discussed.

On August 11, the remainder of the formal comments received on draft 4.0 were reviewed and resolved. Next, the gaps in the document were reviewed and volunteer assignments were made to address these gaps via small writing groups of volunteers (assignments and schedule are shown below). Then, the future document schedule was again reviewed and the meeting was adjourned.

P1547.7 Working Group Meeting Minutes, August 10-11, 2010, page 1 Assignments Clause 4 David Pearce, [email protected] Zinn Morton, [email protected] Peter Evans, [email protected] Michael Sheehan, [email protected] Dave Nichols, [email protected] James Reilly, [email protected] Jose Dizon, [email protected]

Clause 5 Mark Siira, [email protected] Wayne Stec, [email protected] Roy Rietz, [email protected] Brandon Tolentino, [email protected]

Clause 6 Josh Hambrick, [email protected] Omar Faruque, [email protected] Christy Herig, [email protected] Farid Katiraei, [email protected]

Clause 7 John Gajda, [email protected] James Cleary, [email protected] Chase Sun, [email protected] Michael Sheehan, [email protected] Martin Baier, [email protected]

Clause 8 Paul Sheaffer, [email protected] Zinn Morton, [email protected] Peter Evans, [email protected] Brandon Tolentino, [email protected] Christopher Clarke, [email protected]

Clause 9 Zinn Morton, [email protected] John Gajda, [email protected] Wayne Stec, [email protected] Josh Hambrick, [email protected] Jim Lemke, [email protected] Chase Sun, [email protected] Maude Gauthier, [email protected] Brandon Tolentino, [email protected] Nokhum Markushevich, [email protected]

P1547.7 Working Group Meeting Minutes, August 10-11, 2010, page 2 Clause10 Omar Faruque, [email protected] Tom McDermott, [email protected] Bob Arritt, [email protected] Zinn Morton, [email protected] Josh Hambrick, [email protected] Bob Saint, [email protected] Farid Katiraei, [email protected]

Clause 11 Christopher Clarke, [email protected] Gary Olsen, [email protected] Wayne Stec, [email protected] Bob Saint, [email protected] David Nichols, [email protected] Farid Katiraei, [email protected]

Schedule August 10-11, 2010 Work Group meeting (San Francisco)

August 16, 2010-September 23, 2010 Writing groups/drafters and others who volunteered respond to feedback from Aug Work Group meeting and submit assignments to P1547.7 officers and among all volunteer writing groups

September 23, 2010-October 5, 2010 Review by writing groups/drafters (feedback on new material for each others consideration)

October 5-October 29 Drafters send their final text to P1547.7 officers after they consider drafters feedback and revise as appropriate (authors can accept or reject -- later comments can be submitted formally on draft 4.1)

October 29-November 15 P1547.7 officers compile final text as P1547.7 draft 4.1

November 15, 2010 Revised document draft 4.1 posted for review to Work Group

November 15, 2010-January 7, 2011 Formal comments due on draft 4.1 review using Excel form

January 7, 2011-January 14, 2011 Comments compiled

January 14, 2011 Compiled comments posted to Work Group

P1547.7 Working Group Meeting Minutes, August 10-11, 2010, page 3 February 2011 Working group meeting to discuss comments on draft 4.1 (February 8-11, 2011 tentative date)

Please send your inputs in a separate word file to:

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

We would appreciate if you can provide as complete text and figures as possible so we may easily drop them into the next version. The writing groups should address the [guidance bullets] in the document (please try and address them, and then remove the bracket bullets if it has been addressed or a decision was made to not address it), and respond to the “P1547.7 Draft4 comments resolution” file that we established at Aug 10-11 meeting – that is posted on the IEEE Std 1547.7 web site – StdsDrafts page (password protected). Contributors are responsible for providing copyright release as applicable, and full citation when submitting documents, references, or Web links.

Some of the documents requested at the meeting can be found on the IEEE website for 1547.7 under 1547.7 WG Special Topics (password protected): http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc21/1547.7/private/special_topics.html

The next P1547.7 meeting is tentatively scheduled for the second week in February 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Respectfully submitted,

Bob Saint, P1547.7 chair, and Tom Basso, P1547.7 secretary ------

P1547.7 Working Group Meeting Minutes, August 10-11, 2010, page 4 Annex A – Attendees P1547.7 Working Group Meeting, August 10-11 – San Francisco, California

Arritt, Robert EPRI [email protected] Ash, Bill IEEE [email protected] Baier, Martin Eaton [email protected] Barker, Christopher SunPower Corp. [email protected] Bassett, David PPL Electric Utilities [email protected] Basso, Thomas NREL [email protected] Beach, David Portland General Electric [email protected] Bosack, David Northeast Utilities [email protected] Boudreau, Ryan Hydro One Networks Inc [email protected] Clarke, Christopher Southern California Edison [email protected] Cleary, James National Grid USA [email protected] Coddington, Michael NREL [email protected] Dizon, Jose Hawaii Electric Light Company Inc. [email protected] Doyle, Michael ONCOR [email protected] Evans, Peter New Power Technologies [email protected] Faruque, Omar Florida State University [email protected] Gadja, John Progress Energy [email protected] Gunawardena, Jason Salt River Project [email protected] Hambrick, Josh NREL [email protected] Harley, Keith Southern Company [email protected] Herig, Christy Solar Electric Power Association [email protected] Koepfinger, Joe Koepfinger Consulting [email protected] Komomua, Connie NREL [email protected] Kroposki, Ben NREL [email protected] Markushevich, Nokhum Smart Grid Operations Consulting [email protected] California Public Utilities Mazy, Anthony Commission [email protected] McDermott, Tom MelTran, Inc. [email protected] Morton, Bee Zinn Pepco Holdings Inc [email protected] Moskos,George NSTAR Electric [email protected] Nichols, David Altairnano [email protected] Pearce, David Con Edison New York [email protected] Reilly, James Reilly Associates [email protected] Rietz, Roy Eaton Corporation [email protected] Saint, Robert NRECA [email protected] Sakuma, Masatake Toshiba Corporation [email protected] Schauder, Colin Satcon Technology Corporation [email protected] Sheaffer, Paul RDCNET [email protected] Sheehan, Michael IREC [email protected] Stec, Wayne Distregen, LLC [email protected] Sun, Chase PG&E [email protected] Takahashi, Alex WestPower, Inc. [email protected] Tolentino, Brandon Southern California Edison [email protected] Venne, Philippe Hydro-Quebec [email protected]

P1547.7 Working Group Meeting Minutes, August 10-11, 2010, page 5 Williams, Charlie S&C Electric Company [email protected] Xu, Yan Oak Ridge National Laboratory [email protected] Zgonena, Tim Underwriters Laboratories [email protected]

P1547.7 Working Group Meeting Minutes, August 10-11, 2010, page 6 Annex B – Agenda P1547.7 Working Group Meeting, August 10-11 – San Francisco, California

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 (8 AM – 5 PM) 8:00 AM 8:30 AM Check-in and registration 8:30 AM 8:45 AM Opening of meeting - Welcoming of attendees and housekeeping items - Review of IEEE required meeting statements 8:45 PM 9:15 AM Review of agenda and draft schedule and changes if needed Motion to approve Review and approve last meeting minutes 9:15 AM 10:00 AM Summary presentation of IEEE P1547.7 draft 4.0 and work done since last meeting 10:00 AM 10:20 AM Break – refreshments 10:20 AM 12:00 AM Summary and resolution of comments received 12:00 Noon 1:15 PM Lunch on your own 1:15 PM 3:00 PM Write draft edits based on resolutions 3:00 PM 3:15 PM Refreshments 3:15 PM 5:00 PM Write draft edits based on resolutions

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 (8 AM – 3:15 PM) 8:00 AM 8:30 AM Check-in and registration 8:30 AM 10:00 AM Write guidance bullets for volunteers to draft individual clauses 10:00 AM 10:20 AM Break - refreshments 10:20 AM 12:00 Noon Write guidance bullets for volunteers to draft individual clauses 12:00 Noon 1:15 PM Lunch on your own 1:15 PM 2:30 PM Write guidance bullets for volunteers to draft individual clauses 2:30 PM 3:15 PM Summary of meeting and volunteer assignments; adjournment

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