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IOWA INDUSTRIAL ENERGY GROUP
FALL CONFERENCE
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
MidAmerican Energy Company
Jeffery J. Gust
Reliability and Resiliency of the Bulk
Electric System
• Introduction
• Background - Bulk Electric System
• Reliability of the Bulk Electric System
• Resiliency of the Bulk Electric System
• Addressing Reliability and Resiliency
• Questions
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Eight Regions of NERC
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North America Electric Power Markets
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Bulk Electric System Reliability
• The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) has authority for
the development, review and enforcement of mandatory reliability and
security standards of the bulk electric system.
• FERC approved the North American Electric Corporation (NERC) as
the electric reliability organization to develop mandatory standards
and enforce these standards.
• NERC has delegated the enforcement activity to eight regional
entities in North America.
• Each owner and/or operator of the bulk electric system must register
with a region and comply with all of the requirements of the
mandatory standards.
• Any violations of these requirements must be reported up through the
region.
• Violation remedies will range from mitigation plans to civil penalties.
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Categories of Reliability Standards
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Transmission Operations
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Communications
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Transmission Planning
System Protection and Control •
Interchange Scheduling and •
Coordination
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Resource and Demand
Balancing
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Facilities Design, Connection
and Maintenance
Modeling, Data and Analysis •
Emergency Preparedness and •
Operation
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Cyber Security Management
Controls
Electronic Security Perimeters
System Security Management
Incident Reporting and
Response Management
Cyber System Recovery Plans
Configuration Change
Management and Vulnerability
Assessment
Information Protection
Physical Security
Compliance and Operational Excellence
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Operational excellence
Regulatory integrity
Employee commitment
Customer service
Environmental respect
Financial strength
Bulk Electric System Resiliency
• Ability to prepare for and adapt to changing
conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from
disruptions, including deliberate attacks, accidents
or naturally occurring incidents
• Increasing focus of resilience on emerging hazards
versus weather events
• The growing consensus for regulators: resilience
should focus on especially severe events
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Resiliency Threats
• Natural Hazards
– Earthquakes (New Madrid, Cascadia, Hayward, etc.)
– Major geomagnetic disturbances
– Major storms (Katrina, Sandy)
• Manmade Threats
– Potential adversary nations and terrorist groups
– Electromagnetic pulse attack (EMP)
– Combined cyber/physical attack
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Improving Resiliency
• Protection against major hazards that impact
resiliency
– More attention to physical and cyber security beyond
critical equipment
– More drills to practice responding to major events
– Better coordination with other critical infrastructure
(transportation, communication, local responders, etc.)
• Regulatory awareness
• Prudent Investments
– Spare equipment
– Hardening certain facilities
– Improving overall grid transfers
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FERC Approved New Physical Security Standard
• CIP-014 will become effective late this year
• Requires owners to complete risk assessment and
develop security plans to address vulnerabilities
• Many comments have indicated the regulation is
not enough
• We expect future changes to regulation that will
expand scope
• MidAmerican is committed to securing our critical
facilities
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Hardening Facilities
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Hardening Critical Facilities
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Improve or enhance perimeter security
Improve or enhance surveillance
Improve or enhance equipment protection
Enhance spare equipment
• Complete this work as part of our capital
investment plan
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MISO Multi-Value Projects
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Iowa Multi-Value Projects
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Progress to Date
• MVP-4
• The Iowa Utilities Board approved the franchise for the Black Hawk to Hazleton
segment.
• Construction has begun at substation and line. Structures are assembled and new
conductor is being strung. Work is expected to be completed for this segment by
December 2014.
• The line segment from Black Hawk to Killdeer is currently under state review. Final
route and franchise approval is expected early next year.
• MVP-3
• The Iowa Utilities Board approved all six franchises for the Obrien to Kossuth to
Webster segment.
• Construction has begun near Webster and Kossuth substations.
• MVP-16
• MidAmerican filed for the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity pursuant to
Section 8-406 of the Public Utilities Act in Illinois, which would authorize MidAmerican
to construct, operate and maintain a double circuit 345 kV line from Oak Grove, IL to
Galesburg, IL.
• The regulatory approval process in Illinois is expected to be completed by August
2015.
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