Notes from MONTHLY VEE Meeting 5/27/98 

Participants:
John VanderLinde, Jane Roome - SDG&E
Duncan Cano, Mike Lehman, Gary Ciardelli - PG&E
Tom Lofgren - Cellnet
Tom Chen - eT
Lee Simmons, Mike Anderson - Enron
Kathy Smith - ABB

Discussions:
•	High/low demand check - SDG&E indicated it had been useful so far in catching misreads.
•	The question of how to audit compliance with the VEE rules was raised.  The group agreed its job is to define rules to provide good data, not to focus on enforcement.
•	The group agreed there should be rules to convert interval data into monthly data (demand, TOU).  The group will probably not have time to address this for the PSWG report.
•	The group discussed the use of load profiles for estimation.  Kathy Smith had contacted Steve Roscoe, and Steve indicated that presently there are only broad ranges of load profiles - they are not available at the UDC tariff level in all cases, and definitely not at the ESP tariff level.  There is still confusion as to whether the load profiles include average usage or not.  Possibilities were raised of having other published “factors” that could be used to estimate demand and TOU - for example, for a specific tariff or customer class, estimate peak demand by multiplying the average demand (which can be calculated from usage) by x.
•	The group reviewed the draft monthly validation and estimation rules.  Comments will be incorporated in the next version of the document. 
Next Steps:
There will be a meeting at 9:00 am PDT Wednesday, June 10, on the 26th floor of 77 Beale St, SF.  Topics to review include:
•	Irregular usage customers 
•	Order/sequence of tests
•	Review of PG&E alternate high/low usage test proposal
•	Review of document 
•	future plans document, 

There will be a FINAL REVIEW meeting in LA Wednesday, June 17, at 9:00 am PDT.  This meeting will go through the document section by section to agree on final wording.  A final version will be presented to the PSWG MDMA subgroup Tuesday, June 23.  If you have any substantial comments, please do not wait until June 17 to bring them up!  If you have comments but are unable to participate in the conference call or meeting, please call Kathy Smith at 919-250-5429 or email them to kathy.smith@ustra.mail.abb.com.

Details for the meeting locations TBA.

INTERVAL Action Items from 5/27 Conference Call: 
1.	Valerie Nibler to write up alternate proposal for Appendix A.
2.	Kathy Smith to draft document with future recommendations.
3.	Group to review interval rules.

INTERVAL Action Items from 5/18 Conference Call:
1.	Lee Simmons to write up alternate proposal for Appendix A.  CLOSED
2.	UDCs to provide their current policies on how they handle interval data when meter has been in test mode - PG&E reported
3.	Tom Lofgren to send Kathy Smith a list of holidays to be incorporated in the document. - OPEN
4.	Participants to review proposed implementation plan for discussion. - CLOSED.  Discussed 5/27/98.

Action Items from 5/8 INTERVAL Conference Call:
1.	Participants who use recorders to investigate how they report power failures.
2.	Participants to submit alternate proposals for Appendix A.
3.	Participants to consider how to best manage irregular usage customers. - CLOSED.  Subject discussed 5/18 conference call.
4.	Kathy Smith to update document. - CLOSED

Action Items from 5/6 MONTHLY Meeting:
1.	UDCs to provide what they presently do to estimate TOU data
2.	Kathy Smith to contact Steve Roscoe re: do load profiles contain average usage data and will there be a load profile for every TOU rate.
3.	Kathy Smith to circulate a request to UDCs and MDMAs for areas where the 1.3 rules were unclear or led to confusion. - CLOSED.  Request sent to all UDCs.

Action Items from 4/27 MONTHLY Meeting:
1.	PG&E to circulate information regarding monthly hi/lo usage check
2.	SDG&E to prepare data from hi/lo demand check based on data collected so far.  CLOSED - reported at 5/27 meeting it has been helpful to catch misreads
3.	PG&E to prepare alternate proposal for demand reasonableness check
4.	Kathy to revise document based on meeting - CLOSED

Action Items from 4/20 INTERVAL conference call:
1.	UDCs to review spike check thresholds of 10 pulses - CLOSED.  <= 10 pulses is ok)
2.	UDCs to prepare to present reasons why a whole day’s data should be considered suspect and not used for estimation if one interval of that day is estimated - CLOSED - partial days may be used subject to rules listed in document
3.	UDCs with rate schedules with different “like days” (i.e., MWF are like days, not MTWThF) are to consider the affect of sections 4.3.4 through 4.3.6 - CLOSED - like days will stay as they are
4.	Kathy Smith to revise VEE rules based on discussions - CLOSED - draft 4 was distributed
5.	Kathy Smith to send nationalization proposal to PSWG for vote - CLOSED - submitted to MDMA subgroup
6.	Kathy Smith to check with Bill Rush about eventually moving VEE to IEEE SCC 31 - OPEN
7.	Carmina Sara to check for additional purses for the kVARh check - OPEN
8.	Kathy Smith to check with Ed McCann about presentation at UDC/MDMA meeting - CLOSED.  VEE update was presented.
9.	Kathy Smith to check with SDG&E about having VEE meeting after UDC/MDMA meeting 5/5. - CLOSED.  Meeting was held for monthly data.

Action Items from 4/7/98 INTERVAL Conference Call:
1.	John VanderLinde to provide description of the proposed demand tolerance check p - CLOSED.  The proposal to add the additional check has been withdrawn.
2.	All participants to consider should VEE rules be moved toward national standardization - CLOSED.  
3.	UDCs to provide thresholds for spike and kVARh checks.  CLOSED
4.	Tom Lofgren to draft proposal to resolve timing of MDMA receipt of customer historical data for joint UDC/MDMA meeting.  OPEN
5.	Kathy Smith (with help from UDCs) to draft proposal to discuss adjustments for joint UDC/MDMA meeting.  CLOSED - draft submitted to SDG&E
6.	UDCs to prepare to present reasons why a whole day’s data should be considered suspect and not used for estimation if one interval of that day is estimated.  CLOSED
7.	UDCs with rate schedules with different “like days” (i.e., MWF are like days, not MTWThF) are to consider the affect of sections 4.3.4 through 4.3.6.  CLOSED
8.	Kathy Smith to revise VEE rules based on discussions.  CLOSED - Draft 2 of version 1.4 was published.