SAAC/RAAC Technical, October 1, 2025 9:00am - 3:30pm Pacific
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Agenda:
9:00 – 9:15 - Introductions and review agenda
- Minutes from last meeting
9:15 – 10:30 - Deriving Reserve Margins from Needs Assessment Results (Part 2)
- Review adequacy criteria
- Review OptGen reserve capabilities
- Methodology for converting adequacy metrics to reserve margins
- Monthly, block and hourly
- Methodology for converting adequacy metrics to firm energy requirements
10:30 – 10:45 - Break
10:45 – 12:15 - Draft Needs Assessment Results (Part 1)
- Early results from a single hydro operations sensitivity (BiOp)
- Metrics
12:15 – 1:15 - Lunch
1:15 – 2:00 - Draft Needs Assessment Results (Part 2)
- Needs peak and energy
2:00 – 2:45 - OptGen Methodology Updates
- Initial thoughts on typical days and seasonal sampling in OptGen
- Draft modeling treatment of Long Duration Energy Storage and Clean Peaker reference plants
- Draft transmission modeling
2:45 – 3:00 - Topics for Upcoming Meetings and Conclusion
- SAAC/RAAC meetings: Late October. November
Topics:
- Updates on AURORA, GENESYS, OptGen and SDDP modeling
- Updates on market availability study results for scenarios
- Upcoming plan methodologies for needs assessment and resource strategy analysis