01: Please supply any comments related to the Introduction, Definitions, or Background sections.
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02: Please supply any comments related to the Components of the Sharing Calculation equation section (3).
NV Energy appreciates the opportunity to comment in the Western Power Pool’s (WPP) Business Practice Manual process and offers the following comments for consideration. Section 3 provides the specific details for the sharing calculation along with the sharing calculation equation. The program uses forecasts to receive the most up to date availability for Variable Energy Resources and Run of River resources and uses forced outage data to determine the availability of thermal and storage hydro resources. Therefore, is it possible for a thermal resource or storage hydro resource to be considered to have more availability than the QCC amount used in the Forward Showing like Variable Energy Resources? If thermal resources are always capped to the QCC amount in their Forward Showing, then NV Energy would be concerned that the program maybe discrediting thermal resources in the operational program.
03: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Forward Showing Submittal section (4).
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04: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Operations Program section (5).
Section 5.1 states that a participant shall validate the load forecast methodology of their forecasting tools with the Program Administer in advance of the Binding Season. NV Energy would like to understand how frequently this methodology validation would occur and how far in advance of the Binding Season should the validation occur. It would be helpful if the Business Practice Manual included additional details about the validation process. Additionally, it would be helpful to understand why it is necessary to include this validation process before each binding season when the other forecasts are simply monitored.
05: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Operations Program - Load Forecast section (5.1).
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06: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Operations Program - Forced Outage Forecast section (5.2).
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07: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Operations Program - Forecasted ROR section (5.3).
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08: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Operations Program - Forecasted wind output section (5.4).
Section 8 describes how planned outages will be handled within the program. NV Energy would like more clarification about how a participant could demonstrate available capacity from a resource that comes back into service earlier than planned in the Forward Showing timeframe.
09: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Operations Program - Forecasted solar output section (5.5).
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10: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Operations Program - Contingency Reserves Obligation section (5.6).
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11: Please supply any comments related to the Inputs from the Operations Program - Uncertainty Factor section (5.7).
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12: Please supply any comments related to the Input Data Files section (6).
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13: Please supply any comments related to the Input Data Files - Multi-Day file section (6.1).
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14: Please supply any comments related to the Input Data Files - Operating Day file section (6.2).
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15: Please supply any comments related to the Input Data Files - Point Limit file section (6.3).
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16: Please supply any comments related to the Input Data Files - Point to Point Limit File section (6.4).
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17: Please supply any comments related to the Input Data Files - Voluntary Holdback File section (6.5).
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18: Please supply any comments related to the Input Data Files - Actuals file section (6.6).
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19: Please supply any comments related to the Calculation of Sharing Results section (7).
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20: Please supply any comments related to the Planned Outages section (8).
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21: Please supply any comments related to Appendix A - Data Attestation
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