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WICF Event Analysis Focus Group

Laurie Williams – Sr. Manager, Reliability Compliance PNM Resources, Inc. WECC EPAS Meeting – February 2019

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• The Western Interconnection Compliance Forum (WICF) is a grass-roots information sharing
• rganization 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

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WICF Overview

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.

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WICF Event Analysis Focus Group - Purpose

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.

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WICF Event Analysis Focus Group - Objectives

• 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

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WICF Event Analysis Focus Group - Membership

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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 Peer Share Review and 2019 Planning Key elements of EA Program Post Peer Share Update WECC Q&A Socializing EA at Entity Monthly Entity Experience

NERC Human Performance Conference

April May June Developing and Tracking CAPs Post-HP Conf Updates Monthly Entity Experience Metrics for EA Monthly Entity Experience Reliability Performance Analysis Subcommittee Outage Statistics and Annual Reports/Lessons Learned Monthly Entity Experience

WECC Reliability and Security Workshop

July August September Off ThinkReliability Presentation Monthly Entity Experience Small Entity Experience Monthly Entity Experience

NERC Compliance Workshop

October November December Post-HP Conf Updates Monthly Entity Experience HP Conference Speaker(s) Monthly Entity Experience How EA Affects IRA/Self-Logging/ICPA Monthly Entity Experience

WECC Human Performance Conference WECC Reliability and Security Workshop

Your Contact Information Laurie Williams

• Sr. Manager, Reliability Compliance

PNM Resources, Inc. laurie.Williams@pnmresources.com 505-241-0641 Slide 7

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