Day 2-LDC-12.30-Long-TermPlanningStrategy

Long-Term
Planning Strategy
Presenter: Darin Chayka
Need for Outages
• We provide reliable supply to our customers by:
• Performing regular preventative maintenance on the power system
equipment
• Investing in new power system infrastructure
• This work can only be done safely by disconnecting assets from the
power system
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Strategy
• Deliver operating efficiencies for our customers and stakeholders by
planning further out
• We need your help to do this effectively
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New Strategy Driver: SE-109
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IESO is redesigning the outage management process
New Market Rules
Business benefits to plan beyond a quarterly timeframe
More notice required for critical elements
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SE-109 Go Live
• September 14, 2016 – Go Live
• No planned outages scheduled to:
• Start September 13-15
• End on Go Live
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IESO Quarterly Process
• Long term planning process
• Repeats quarterly as pictured
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IESO Quarterly Process
Benefits:
• Early notice of conflict or approval
• Improved certainty
• Priority over other market participants
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IESO Weekly Process
• Requirement for critical elements (equipment impacting power system limits)
• 7 day notice  17-23 day notice
• Repeats weekly as pictured
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Planning 2016
• Most known Hydro One transmission outages have been planned
for 2016
• Focus on bundling work to deliver efficiencies and minimize
customer and system impact
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Planning 2016
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Planning 2017-2020
• Looking for real or perceived customer plans out to 2020
• Relevant system information is needed for effective long term
planning
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Planning 2017-2020
• Requesting your plans outside
of normal operations:
• Load reductions
• Load increases
• Maintenance work
• Construction work
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Engage: Customer Conferences
• Presentations made by OGCC Planners throughout the province
• Customer, generator and Hydro One staff participation
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Customer Conference Regions
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Hamilton Niagara
St. Catharines
GTA West
Sarnia
Windsor
Waterloo
London
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GTA Central
Thunder Bay
Sudbury
Barrie
Belleville
Ajax
Timmins
Customer Conference Results
How likely are you to attend in the future?
How satisfied are you with the
presentation information?
How satisfied are you with this event?
How relevant was the information presented?
How satisfied with presentation format?
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