BPA-2012-01066-FOIA Response

Department of Energy

Bonneville Power AdministrationP.O. Box 3621

Portland, Oregon 97208-3621

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

April 27, 2012

In reply refer to: DK-7

Attn: Douglas AlbrightActuation Test Equipment Company3393 Eddie RoadWinnebago, IL 61088

FOIA #BPA-2012-01066-F

Dear Mr. Albright:

This is a final response to your request for information from the Bonneville Power Administration.

You have requested the following:Copies of any documents from the BPA Hydro Optimization Team (HOT) meetings after April 2010;specifically, agendas, hand-ins, hand-outs, overhead slides, reports and a listing of any funds expendedfor FCRPS hydropower.

Response:Enclosed are all documents found in response to your request; they are released in their entirety.

Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.8, if you are dissatisfied with this determination, or the adequacy of the search,you may appeal in writing within 30 calendar days of receipt of a final response letter. The appeal shouldbe made to the Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals, HG-1, Department of Energy, 1000Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-1615. The written appeal, including the envelope,must clearly indicate that a FOIA Appeal is being made.

The fees associated with this request totaled $81.80. A copy of the fee computation sheet is alsoenclosed. An invoice in this amount will be mailed separately.

I appreciate the opportunity to assist you. Please contact Kim Winn, Communications Specialist, at503-230-5273 with any questions about this letter.

Sincerely,

/s/Christina J. MunroChristina J. MunroFreedom of Information Act/Privacy Act Officer

Hydro-Optimization Team Meeting Corps

Monday, April 19, 2010 12:00pm-5:00pm

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Conference Phone: 1 (888)422-7128

PARTICIPANT CODE: 291350

@ McNary Theater

CO-CHAIRS: Larry Haas (Corps); Tom Murphy (BPA)

Agenda 12:00 Pin -5:OO vin - Day l 1 Introductions, review agenda, actions, adopt last minutes, review charter

2. McNary GBO - Dan Ramirez, Waylon Bowers

3. Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day GBO - Waylon Bowers, Dan Ramirez

4. Health Check - Waylon Bowers, Pat Keller

5. Chief Joseph Individual Unit (Units 17-27) Flow Tables for T2 - Dan Ramirez

6. Chief Joseph Accusonic Flow Meters and Scintillation Frame Testing (Absolute Flow) - Dan Ramirez, Dan Patla

7. John Day Blade Sensor - Dan Ramirez

8. 3D CAM Operation Surveys - Dan Ramirez, Calvin Hsieh

9. Chief Joseph and Dworshak Flow Meter Data to GDACS - Richard Nelson

10. Optimization Type 2 (T2) - Larry Haas

11. Lower Granite Accusonic Flow Meter "Clean up' - Dan Ramirez

12. Other Items

SUBAGREEMENT PPEI Status Larry Haas

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DRAFT

HOT MEETING MCNARY TREATER

APRIL 19, 2010

Attendee List

Sydney Foster - NWW Leah Wickstrom - NWS Jordan Fink - NWD Waylon Bowers - HDC Nathan Henshaw - HDC Pat Tormala - HDC Ben Elder - HDC John Yen - HDC Quyen Nguyen - BO Dan Ramirez - HDC Dan Patla -HDC David Mackintosh - JDA Rick Reiner - IDA Ed Miska - NWD Larry Haas - HDC and co-chair Tom Murphy - BPA and co-chair Carolyn Foote - NWW PM Tiffany Newton - BPA Richard Nelson - HDC

INTRODUCTION SUMMARY

Larry Haas (Corps - co-chair) led introductions and reviewed the agenda. The draft summary was reviewed from last meeting and not approved yet due to follow up needed. The actions list was reviewed at the meeting.

Larry Haas (Corps) introduced all the project managers for each District office.

PM's Leah Wickstrom - NWS Carolyn Foote - NWW Daryl Melton - NWP

MCNARY GBO TESTING The committee discussed the challenges for BPA - tracking and measuring performance of all improvements.

Larry Haas (Corps) presented a matrix schedule showing GBO by project for 2010 through 2013. Working on four projects at a time for ordering equipment.

BON, TDA, and JDA, GBOs - GATE BLADE OPTIMIZER John Yen gave an overview of Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day GBO project. The Bonneville GBO box has been installed and receiving accurate data reading. John presented charts of the flow and valve status and flush command system.

Presented background of McNary's GBO. The project is about 90% complete, and the next step is to write a Users Manual.

Dan Ramirez mentioned he needs to review the second set of data for Ti.

Questions were asked about the 1% operating tables and the need to update fish tables, plus involve the fisheries more.

HEALTH CHECK Waylon Bowers (Corps) reported nothing new for Health Check. Currently working on developing a multi-year plan. Currently, monitoring the CAM process.

Questions were asked about what to do with FYI data and implementation and if alarms show up on the system. What is a health check concept? The Hot Team discussed the purpose of Health Check and how this helps operators to diagnose a problem if data is off. Ed Miska reported he has written a Health Check "Options Paper" and will distribute to the HOT Team.

Background on Health Check: A monitoring function that examines certain key data to determine if systems are operating as planned. An example could be a system external from GBO that would monitor turbine-generator head, gate angle, blade angle, and power (megawatts) and alarm if these variables are outside the optimum operating point (if effect, a "health check" of the GBO system). An internal health check system could be redundant sensors within a GBO that are compared to determine failure.

The general concept health check was approved by the HOT sometime in the past, but has not been implemented to date. There are many reasons for this (priority, specific details of work scope, resources, etc.). The topic continues to generate lively debate. Action item is for Miska to provide HDC with a copy of a health check document he prepared some years ago, and HDC to conduct a brainstorming session to examine the specific proposals, and recommend which, if any, should be implemented.

CHIEF JOSEPH INDIVIDUAL UNTIS (17-27) FLOW TABLES for T2 Dan Ramirez (Corps) reported unit testing starts in May 2010. In the interim, the goal is to gather individual performance data for 11 new units.

Anticipating, no problems on this project, and a summary analysis report about flow meter units will be developed and used for T2 Chief Joseph accusonic flow meter and testing at Kootenay. The next step is to implement a program to get absolute flow meter data.

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CHIEF JOSEPH ACCUSONIC FLOW METERS AND SCINTILATION FRAME TESTING (ABSOLUTE FLOW) Dan Ramirez (Corps) reported scintillation testing will be conducted in November 2010. The same time as the performance test of unit #11 at Chief Joseph.

Questions were asked about costs between pressure times vs. one day testing. Also, the committee discussed using the Caldon, rather than accusonics due to costs and if testing fails. Unit #7 is scheduled for testing in November 2010 and could be delayed until December 2010.

The Winter Kennedy contract was just awarded for $90K for flushing the unit at Chief Joseph. If scintillation testing goes positively, then scintillation could run across the power house.

Tom Murphy (BPA) asked the HOT Team for feedback on whether to do relative index testing for Chief Joseph for units #17-27 and assess the impacts and benefits first, then make a decision whether to move forward on testing for units 1-16 and evaluate if the same benefit occurs. The HOT Team discussed preparation and advanced planning will be beneficial on this project, and having a contract prepared ahead of time for unit's #1-16 if the test results are positive to move forward on this project.

JOHN DAY BLADE SENSOR Waylon Bower (Corps) reported on measuring blade angle sensors at John Day to test for more accurate readings. Currently a leak has been found from a conduit at John Day in the junction box which flooded and destroyed some equipment at the project. The project was inspected to see how many sensors worked. Most sensors are still working, but it's unknown if the upper and lower sensors will work again.

Two possible options were considered to fix the sensor problem.

#1 - Contact HoodTech to work on this project and develop a plan to assess what sensors worked previously and try to acquire the data to fix the problem.

#2— Do the sensor work in-house? Need to wait for a dry period to fix the junction box and use existing data in the interim.

The HOT Team discussed the best possible time for an outage and slides were presented showing pictures of the leaking conduit and damage.

Proposal: The HOT Team will request funding from the Capital Workgroup on GBO next week at the Capital Workgroup meeting.

3D CAM OPERATIONS SURVEY Dan Ramirez (Corps) reported another round of surveys was conducted at Walla Walla. Preliminary results have been completed. No real problems were found, except for a few

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minor sensor issues at Little Goose and Lower Monumental. Dan mentioned all the transducer, calibration, and reliability issues have been resolved.

CHIEF JOSEPJ and DWORSHAK FLOW METER DATA TO GDACS The HOT Team discussed getting the signal cards purchased and wired into the GDACS 110.

LOWER GRANITE FLOW METERS Dan Patla (Corps) gave a presentation on Lower Granite flow meters and explained the installation wiring problems of vertical vs. horizontal flow meters.

The HOT Team discussed possible options for fixing the wiring problems and reviewed the wiring installation option for BAY A: path 1 and 18 showed no signal.

The HOT Team discussed getting a copy of the original wiring diagram from Accusonics.

OPTIMIZATION TYPE 2 (T2) Larry Haas (Corps) mentioned nothing new to report, except funding for the subagreement was revised, and Grand Coulee T2 testing is happening. T2 is operating at Chief Joseph, The Dalles, Bonneville, John Day, and McNary.

FCRPS SHA1IEPOINT EBSITE Ed Miska (Corps) reported the FCRPS SharePoint website is moving forward and asked the HOT Team what type of information does the team want on the HOT website. What type of information should be transferred from the old website to the new website? Ed mentioned that all committees need to designate a point of contact for their site.

Ed Miska (Corps) is currently working on access and permission levels for all committees and asked the HOT Team members to list their user name and ID number on the sign up sheet.

CHARTER The HOT Team reviewed the proposed changes to the charter and made revisions at the meeting. The HOT Team made a few minor edits and decided to eliminate #5 (Oversees and monitors optimization program). Ed Miska (Corps) will make the final edits to the HOT Team charter and distribute the charter back to the team for final review.

Questions were asked about the purpose of the charter and discussed if the HOT Team is operating at the program vs. the project level.

The HOT Team committee discussed how the team makes decisions and mentioned they use the consensus method which works best for the team.

The HOT Team meets 2 to 3 times annually.

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NEXT MEETING The HOT Team decided to meet October 13-14, 2010 at McNary Dam.

ACTION ITEMS

1. Waylon Bowers will follow upon purchasing 10 GBO PLC boxes.

2. Richard Nelson will remind the Governor Team about the GBO no change in schedule at The Dalles for testing.

3. Dan Ramirez will send preliminary e-mailed results of the CHJ testing of unit's #17-27 before the HOT Team makes a decision to go forth with testing of units 1-16

4. David MacKintosh will continue data collection for JDA unit #16 to decide on maintenance needed for the leak of blade sensors and fix the junction box in the dry period (permanent installation or not). Next steps determine repair strategy. Waylon will contac HoodTech on proposal for data acquisition.

5. Carolyn Foote will follow up with the Dworshak flow meter accusonic equipment purchase.

6 Dan Patla will follow up with aaccusonics to get Lower Granite wiring diagram, firm pricing for permanent installation costs, and schedule for de-watering.

7. Ed Miska will follow upon the FCRPS Website SharePoint access for users (HOT Team Committee) and check into FOJA issue about posting draft materials on the site (open or closed files).

8. Ed Miska will revise the HOT Team charter with suggested changes and distribute to the HOT Team Committee. The final charter will be posted on the new SharePoint site.

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Revised 10/19/05

Hydrogeneration Optimization Team

Charter

In accordance with the goal of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Asset

Management Strategy to maximize the value of the FCRPS, we will develop tools and strategies

for enhancing net revenues through hydrogeneration optimization and efficiency improvements.

This is a partnership of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration, and

the Bureau of Reclamation. Our end products are recommendations to the JOC, through the

Capital Workgroup, on improving efficiency at the project level. Implementation will be

accomplished through normal business practices.

Attachments:

1. Asset Management Strategy for the FCRPS

2. Clarification of what HOT does/does not do (seepage 2 of charter)

What HOT Does:

1. Recommends overall priorities of optimization at the program level 2. Conducts studies in support of the optimization priorities

a. Tasks others to do these studies through project managers and program managers

3. Supports District Program Managers HOT related capital proposals to the CWG a. assists in preparation of the decision document b. supports decision at the CWG

4. Assesses success of optimization projects 5. Oversees (monitors) optimization program

a. Identifying b. Prioritizing c. Implementing d. Coordinating

What HOT Does Not Do:

1. Execute projects 2. Write subagreements

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Hydro-Optimization Team Meeting Corps

Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:00 am-2:00 pm

Working Lunch

Conference Phone: 503-230-3344 passcode: 8776

@ McNary Theater


Agenda 10:00 am - 2:00 pm 1 Introductions, review agenda, actions, adopt last minutes, review revised charter

2. McNary GBO - Dan Ramirez, Waylon Bowers

3. Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day GBO - Waylon Bowers, Dan Ramirez

4. Health Check - Waylon Bowers, Pat Keller


6a. Chief Joseph Accusonic Flow Meters and 6b. Scintillation Frame Testing (Absolute Flow) - Scott Bennett, Dan Ramirez, Dan Patla

7. John Day Blade Sensor - Waylon Bowers

8. 3D CAM Operation Surveys - Dan Ramirez

9. Chief Joseph and Dworshak Flow Meter Data to GDACS -

10. Optimization Type 2 (T2) - Larry Haas, Tom Murphy

Ii. Lower Granite Accusonic Flow Meter "Clean up - Dan Patla

12. Other Items

SUBAGREEMENT • PPEI Status

Wrap Up

Larry Haas

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o Review actions items today o Set next meeting date o Add new topics for next meeting o Other???

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Hydro Optimization Team Consensus Decision Levels

1. I can say an unqualified "yes" to the proposed decision. lam satisfied that the decision is an expression of the wisdom of the group.

2. I find the proposed decision perfectly acceptable. 3. I can live with the proposed decision, although I am not especially enthusiastic about it. 4. I do not fully agree with the proposed decision and need to register my view about it. However, I do

not choose to block the decision. I am willing to trust the wisdom of the group. 5. I do not agree with the decision and feel the need to stand in the way of acceptance. 6. I feel we have no clear sense of unity in the Team. We need to do more work before consensus can

be reached.

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USACE

Health Check Work Plan

CENWP-HDC-E

10/5/2010

Intro and Problem Statement

Health Check is a system designed to identify problems with automated controls or sensors. A

malfunctioning sensor or control can cause inefficiencies and even dangerous operating conditions if the

problem is not addressed. For example, a Kaplan type turbine requires the blades to be positioned at a

specific angle for a given combination of wicket gate opening and head level in order to operate at

maximum efficiency. A faulty head, gate, or blade reading could cause the turbine to operate at a less

efficient point without anyone knowing. Over time, this loss in efficiency can result in a significant loss

in revenue.

In order to ensure maximum generating efficiency and reliability, Health Check will monitor sensors for

bad signals and produce an alert if a faulty sensor is detected. This will be accomplished through a

bottom-up approach.

First, where self-diagnostic sensors are available, they can replace existing sensors and provide a simple

way to alert that a signal has a problem. For other parameters being monitored, it may be possible to

replace existing sensors with more accurate ones. This approach requires minimal expenditure up front

and allows Health Check to be quickly implemented after proper sensors are identified.

With sensors already in place, more functionality will be added to the system later, such as logging and

trending data to catch a signal drifting out of calibration over time. A computer or PLC-based system

can monitor inputs from many sensors and perform trending calculations. This would allow detection of

the head/gate/blade relationship not matching past data, for example. Physically repeatable points for

certain parameters, such as gate position and blade angle, also provide a way to check that sensors are

properly calibrated. If a sensor has drifted out of calibration, the computer or PLC can trigger an alert so

that corrective action can be taken at the soonest convenient time.

Parameters currently being monitored that will be included in Health Check are:

• Wicket gate position

• Forebay level

• Tallwater level

• Kaplan blade angle

• Power (MW)

Each of these parameters will be discussed in more detail in the sections that follow. Where several

types of sensors are available for one parameter, a study should be performed to determine the best

option. The study can be accomplished by installing multiple sensor types on units at one project.

Wicket Gate Position

An accurate reading of wicket gate position is critical for determining the blade angle for optimum

generating efficiency. Gate position is currently measured in two different ways. NWP projects use a

Revised 10/19/05


Charter

In accordance with the goal of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Asset

Management Strategy to maximize the value of the FCRPS, we will develop tools and strategies

for enhancing net revenues through hydrogeneration optimization and efficiency improvements.

This is a partnership of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration, and

the Bureau of Reclamation. Our end products are recommendations to the JOC, through the

Capital Workgroup, on improving efficiency at the project level. Implementation will be

accomplished through normal business practices.

Attachments:

1. Asset Management Strategy for the FCRPS

2. Clarification of what HOT does/does not do (seepage 2 of charter)

What HOT Does:

1. Recommends overall priorities of optimization at the program level 2. Conducts studies in support of the optimization priorities

a. Tasks others to do these studies through project managers and program managers

3. Supports District Program Managers HOT related capital proposals to the CWG a. assists in preparation of the decision document b. supports decision at the CWG

4. Assesses success of optimization projects 5. Oversees (monitors) optimization program

a. Identifying b. Prioritizing c. Implementing d. Coordinating

What HOT Does Not Do:

1. Execute projects 2. Write subagreements

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Corps

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Conference Phone: 503-230-3344 passeode: 9009

Room 346


Agenda 12:00 pm-5:00 pm I Introductions, review agenda, actions, adopt last minutes, review revised charter

2. McNaiy GBO - Dan Patla

3a. Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day GBO - Dan Patla 3b. GBO Schedule

4. John Day Blade Angle (BAM) Sensor - Waylon Bowers

5. Health Check - Waylon Bowers


7a. Chief Joseph Accusonic Flow Meters and 7b. Scintillation Frame Testing (Absolute Flow) - Scott Bennett, Dan Ramirez, Dan Patla

8. 3D CAM Operation Surveys - Dan Ramirez

9. Chief Joseph Flow Meter Data to GDACS - Scott Bennett

10. Lower Granite Accusonic Flow Meter "Clean up" - Dan Patla

H. Other Items

SUBAGREEMENT • PPEI Status Larry Haas

Wrap Up o Review actions items today o Set next meeting date o Add new topics for next meeting

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DRAFT SUMMARY HOT MEETING

MCNARY THEATER MAY 10, 2011

Attendee List Waylon Bowers - HDC Sydney Foster - Corps Robert Siedmah - Corps Dan Ramirez - HDC Dan Patla —HDC Waylon Bowers - HDC Ed Miska - NWD Larry Haas - HDC and co-chair Tom Murphy - BPA and co-chair Dick Nelson - BPA Carolyn Foote - NWW PM Tiffany Newton - BPA Robert vanderBorg - NWP Quien Nuyen - Corps (on phone) George Brown - BPA

INTRODUCTION SUMMARY Larry Haas (Corps - co-chair) and Tom Murphy (BPA) led introductions and reviewed the agenda. The draft summary was reviewed from last meeting and not approved yet due to follow up needed. The actions list was revised at the meeting.

Added topic: Renewable Energy Credits

Personnel Changes: Dennis Radunzel replaced Leah Wickstrom for Seattle District. Scott Bennett is at Chief Joseph.

PM's Dennis Radunzel - NWS Carolyn Foote - NWW Daryl Melton - NWP

RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDIT CALCULATION Tom Murphy (BPA) presented slides on Renewable Energy Credit Calculations.

HOTMay2011.pdf

Highlights: • State of Oregon working on an efficiency calculation for all amounts of

Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) • Federal agencies working on developing a method to calculate and track

REC's. • Anticipating this will be a national trend • Federal government (for Oregon only) is not willing to sell credits, but

putting renewable energy into portfolios which includes 9 new runners for Grand Coulee/T2 installation and at Chief Joseph.

• The benefits will be shared by 50-60 utilities• • Regis is the "Clearing House" to show how much wind energy can be

generated. • Baseline improvement varies with time of day and flow • Does this fall under PPEI? An agreement will be needed with the Corps

and Reclamation to turn over Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) • There is a possibility to retain the RECs • Discussed value of RECs • Few Mid C's have written regulations that allow them to receive energy

credit • Mid-C's agreement with Washington is still in place • What about governor impacts? • Need to make improvements at T2 installation for Chief Joseph to get

credit for REC's • How do we achieve penalties? Assuming different states will have

different ones? • Review of anticipated GBO data curves, index text results and higher and

lower curves based on original settings. • CAM testing - differences in data results were not very significant • Questions were asked about powerhouse 1&2 at Bonneville • Starting to get in data and calculate gross head results - see slide 2

REVISED CHARTER Ed Miska (Corps) reviewed the Corps HOT Team (revised) Charter. See version 4/15/2010.

Suggested changes: change program managers to project managers. Also, added the words does not execute projects.

The committee reviewed the old charter and revised charter.

VOTING: The Corps HOT Team voted all 1, 2, 3's and no 4, 5, 6's and approved the charter.

2

FinaiCharter 05 1011. pdf

GATE BLADE OPTIMIZER

NWWGBO Dan Patla (Corps) discussed preliminary data measuring the following on the gate blade optimizer at McNary (4 units):

• Head • Flow • Wicket Gate Opening • Blade Angle • Power

Dan discussed work timelines and challenges with switching to a PLC platform.

The HOT Team discussed upcoming funding needs.

NWPGBO Dan Patla (Corps) reported the following on The Dalles (2 units) and John Day (4 units) GBO:

• GBOs developed to interface with NWP 3D cam controllers • GBOs deployment schedule at The Dalles and John Day discussed. • Software updates dealing with unforeseen data logging problems • Scripting fixes were developed

JDA BLADE ANGLE MEASUREMENT Waylon Bowers (Corps) reported the following:

• Hoodtech was hired • Corps' previously installed sensors and cables • BAM - testing, task orders, and data gathered • Results - bias differences in measurement due to how BAM measures

blade angle (near blade centerline) and how field personnel measures (at leading and trailing edges of blade)Hysteresis

• Repeatable blade angles • Operationally nothing to be gained by additional measuring • Report is being developed • Take aways: The Repeatable Blade Project will be put on hold. Another

test will be conducted in two years.

3

Dan Ramirez will follow up with Dan Watson about possibly measuring blade angle during maintenance and developing a plan.

FY11 HEALTH CHECK Wayon Bowers (Corps) reported the status of FYi 1 Health Check as follows:

• Determine sensors to install for comparison and analysis (e.g., linear vs. rotary sensors, MLDT vs. LVDT, HART vs. non-HART radar sensors)

• Order sensors • Write test plan • Installation of sensors on one unit • Perform testing and analyze results • Determine best sensors/methods to use and install sensors on more units • The HOT committee reviewed charts of The Dafles tail water head and

fo rebay • Linear vs. Rotary • Purchase order written and waiting for results

CHIEF JOSEPH FLOW TABLES Dan Ramirez (Corps) showed flow tables of Chief Joseph unit #21 and reported on progress.

• Units 17-27 testing happened in 2010. • Most units showed similar data shape. • Summary results - peak at 92mw (peak efficiency) • All unit curves implemented for units 17-27 flow tables for T2 and will be

put into GDACS • What are the benefits? • Currently project is on hold for reporting until August data comes out.

Tom Murphy (B PA) suggested using a P1 calculation to do a comparison of the analysis.

CHIEF JOSEPH FLOW ABSOLUTE FLOW Dan Ramirez (Corps) reported on Chief Joseph Absolute Flow as follows:

• Performance testing happened in April 2011 • New flow metrics were added into the simulation testing for units # 11 and

15 • Issues with reference flow meter configuration identified • Waiting for results from simulations • Reprocess the data? Pull results from scintillation testing?

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. Discussed possibility of adding flow meters and not use scintillation

3D CAM OPERATIONSA SURVEYS Dan Ramirez (Corps) reported on 3D cam operations surveys.

. No data from Walla Walla • Other data being processed • No wide spread issues, except Lower Granite.

o Loss of preferred AC power resulted in erroneous head inputs into 3D cam controller. Half of units affected for extended period.

o Plant personnel have resolved issue

CHIEF JOSEPH FLOW METER DATA TO GDACS Larry Haas (Corps) reported making some progress on Chief Joseph meter data to GDACS. Stay tuned...

LOWER GRANITE ACCUSONIC FLOW Dan Patla reported on the cleanup effort at Lower Granite. Discussed background on installations, A, B, C paths, problems with leaks, and inspection of transducers.

Results were good on all tested paths.

HDC will provide designs for electrical work needed. The holes will be plugged at Lower Granite and drawings and specs twill be provided. HDC will be hiring a contractor to work on flow metering.

SUBAGREEMENT PPEI Larry Haas (Corps) discussed reprogramming needs from FY11-FY12 due to schedule delays to cover FY13 expenditures. Hopefully, no amendment will be needed for FY12.

NEXT MEETING The HOT Team committee decided the next meeting is scheduled for October 26-27 at McNary.

Attached are slides presented at the HOT Team meeting.

HOT Meeting 5MAY201 1. pdf

5

ACTION ITEMS Tom Murphy will invite Deb Malin to a future meeting to give a presentation on Renewable Energy Credits (REC5)

Tom Murphy will follow up on frequency movements in the gates for wind curve analysis for REC's which will be included in a study.

Carolyn Foote will follow up on the status for Heath Check funding at McNary.

Tom Murphy and Dan Ramirez will follow up on Pi calculation comparison for Chief Joseph flow tables (July-August operating at peak).

Larry Haas, Ed Miska, and Tom Murphy will coordinate a meeting to discuss budget reprogramming - PPEI Subagreement for FYi 1-FY1 3.

7

Charter


Approved 10 May 2011

In accordance with the goal of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Asset Management Strategy to maximize the value of the FCRPS, we will develop tools and strategies for enhancing net revenues through hydrogeneration optimization and efficiency improvements. This is a partnership of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration. Our responsibility is oversight and recommendations to the JOC, through the Capital Workgroup. Implementation will be accomplished through normal Corps project management business practices.

What HOT Does: 1. Recommends overall priorities of optimization at the program level; 2. Identifies and prioritizes optimization opportunities; 3. Initiates studies in support of the optimization priorities; 4. Tasks others to develop detailed program costs and schedules; 5. Supports the Capital Work Group and JOC by evaluating and then

approving/altering/disapproving detailed program plans; 6. Follows ongoing work to evaluate cost and schedules and alter the plan as appropriate; 7. Helps District Program Managers define and schedule appropriate work; 8. Assists in preparation of the Decision Support Document 9. Evaluates/approves each change in direction or schedule that is recommended to the

Capital Work Group; 10. Assesses success of optimization projects; 11. Oversees overall program and looks for synergy with other non-HOT jobs; 12. Assures proper coordination is occurring; 13. Works and coordinates with other agencies to obtain synergy from their optimization

programs.

What HOT Does Not Do: 1. Write subagreements - Performed by Project Managers with help from the HOT team.

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See below for approved forecast amounts per last agreement between the USACE and BPA. Actual expenditures for FY10 and FYi 1 are estimated at $690,400 and $944,500.

Hydro Optimization Team (H.O.T.) (Expense)

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Allocation FY10 FY11

Walla Walla District McNary

PM 21 15 15 Team Meetings 4 HDC-HOT support 293 10 10

Total Walla Walla 318 25 25

Seattle District Chief Joseph

PM 10 5 5 Team Meetings 51 5 5 HDC-HOT support 94 15 15

Total Chief Joseph 155 25 25 Albeni Falls

Total Seattle 157 25 25

Portland District Bonneville

PM 43 10 10 Team Meetings 48 5 5 HDC-HOT support 158 15 15

Total Bonneville 248 30 30 The DaDes 37 John Day 71

Total Portland 356 30 30 Total Hydro Optimization Team 8131 801 80

Detail Operational Surveys Operational Surveys (Expense)

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S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 5 5 5 Contracting (Adv & Award) U _______

Contracts U Ice Harbor Total 154 18 18

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S&A 0 [DC 0 Project Coord 5 5 5

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Contracts 0 Lower Granite Total 38 20 20

Total Operational Surveys - Walla Walla 375 1051 105

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Contracting (Adv & Award) 0

Contracts 0

The Dallas Total 98 21 21

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S&A 0

EDC 0

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Contracts 0

Bonneville B2 Total 42 14 14

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Contracts 0

Bonneville Bi Total 62 14 14

John Day

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S&A 0 _______

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Contracts 0 _________

John Day Total 108 19 19

Total Operational Surveys - Portland 3101 68 68

TOTAL OPERATIONAL SURVEYS 6851 173 173

Detail Gate/Blade Optimizer Gate/Blade Optimizer (Ti) DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAMMING (Capital)


Allocation FY10 I FY11

McNary PM 122 10 5 E&D 1,303 140 100 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 7 10 5 Contracting 0 Contracts 0

FY Totals 1,431 160 110 Ice Harbor

PM 0 E&D 0 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 Contracting 0 Contracts 0

FY Totals 0 0 0 Lower Monumental


FY Totals 0 0 0 Little Goose PM E&D S&A EDC Project Coord Contracting (Adv & Award) Contracts (programming) FY Totals 0 01 0 Dworshak - 2 FY Totals 2 0 0 Lower Granite PM E&D S&A EDC Project Coord Contracting (Adv & Award) Contracts (programming) FY Totals 2 0 0 Total Ti - Walla Walla 1,435 160 110

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___________________________________ Actuals

FYOO-09 Allocation FY10 FY1I I

B onneville PM 10 15 10 E&D 47 50 120 S&A 0 EDO 0 Project Coord 4 10 10 Contracting (Adv & Award) 0 Contracts (programming) 0 150

FY Totals 61 225 140

The Dalles PM 15 10 E&D 50 120 S&A EDO Project Coord 1 5 10 Contracting (Adv & Award) 15 2 Contracts (programming) 0 200 10

FY Totals 1 285 152

John Day PM 0 15 10 E&D 0 50 120 S&A 0 EDO 0 Project Coord 3 5 10 Contracting 0 Contracts 0 150

FY Totals 3 220 140 Total Ti - Portland 64 730 432

Project/Work Item Actuals

FYOO-091 Allocation FY10 FY111

Ti - Seattle 01 01 Oi

ITOTAL Gate/Blade Optimizer (Ti) Developmenl 1,499 890 542

Absolute Flow for Kaplan Turbines (Expense)

Project/Work Item

AL

Project/Work Item Actuals FYOO-09


Ch Joe PM 8 10 10 E&D 155 70 80 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 10 20 Contracting (Adv & Award) 13 5 5 Contracts 196 75

FY Totals 372 170 115

TOTAL ABSOLUTE FLOW - SEATTLE 372 170 us

I Install and Test Acoustic Flow Sensors (Capital)

Costs Cost Cost Project/Work Item FY00-09 FY10 FY11

Dworshak

PM 20 2 E&D 79 S&A 5 EDC 2 Project Coord 17

Contracting (Adv & Award) 3 Contracts 466

592 2 0 Lower Granite

PM 19 5 5

E&D 84 30 45

S&A 0

EDC 0 Project Coord 66 5 5 Contracting (Adv & Award) 0 Contracts 571 45

740 40 100

AL ACOUSTIC FLOW SENSORS - WALLA W71 1,332 42 100

Costs Cost Cost Project/Work Item FYOO-09 FY10 FY11

Ch Joe

PM 8

E&D 0 30 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 15 Contracting (Adv & Award) 0 Contracts 0

8 55 0 OTAL ACOUSTIC FLOW SENSORS - SEATTLE- 8 55 0

TOTAL ACOUSTIC FLOW SENSORS 1 1,3401 97 100

Detail Kaplan and Francis Unit Health Check (Capital)



McNary PM 8 8 E&D 87 20 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 5 Contracting 0 Contracts 0

FY Totals 95 33 0

TOTAL Kaplan Health Check- Walla Walla 95 33 0 TOTAL Francis Health Check - Seattle 8 01 0 TOTAL Kaplan and Francis Unit HEALTH CHECK 1 1031 331 0

r• COLUMaN. Hydro-Optimization Team Meeting

Corps

Thursday, November 17,2011 10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Conference Phone: 503-230-3344 passcode: 3723

@ Room 346 McNary Dam

CO-CHAIRS: Larry Haas (Corps); George Brown (BPA)

Agenda 10:00 am - 3:30 pm

• Introductions, review agenda, actions, adopt last minutes, review revised charter

• McNary GBO - Dan Patla

• The Dalles and John Day GBO - Dan Patla • GBO Schedule

• Health Check - Waylon Bowers

• Chief Joseph Accusonic Flow Meters and • Scintillation Frame Testing (Absolute Flow) - Scott Bennett, Dan Ramirez, Dan Patla

• 3D CAM Operation Surveys - Dan Ramirez

• 9Chief Joseph Flow Meter Data to GDACS - Scott Bennett

• Lower Granite Accusonic Flow Meter "Clean up" - Dan Patla

• Other Items

• SUBAGREEMENT • PPEI Status

Wrap Up o Review actions items today o Set next meeting date o Add new topics for next meeting o Other???

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DRAFT SUMMARY HOT MEETING MCNARY DAM

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Attendee List Sydney Foster - NWW Tiffany Jenks - BPA Waylon Bowers - HDC Dan Patla - HDC Carolyn Foote - NWW Ed Miska - NWD Francis Halpin - Bpa Larry Haas - HDC Tiffany Newton - BPA D. Scott Bennett CWS George Brown - BPA

INTRODUCTION SUMMARY Larry Haas (Corps - co-chair) and George Brown (BPA) led introductions and reviewed the agenda.

The draft summary was reviewed from last meeting and not approved yet due to follow up needed.

The actions list was revised at the meeting.

The HOT Team discussed the status of PPEI Amendment #19 and explained some differences between Types 1 - 4 of Hydro Optimization models.

Highlights: Type #1 - NRTO model.

Type# 2 - submitted by the Corps and won an award. Reclamation adopted Type #2 - standard model used with GDACS (software program) for the Near Real Time Optimization (NRTO) project.

Type #3 - used for monitoring hydro optimization with the Columbia Vista model

Type #4 - used for regional basin optimization

REVIEW OF CHARTER The HOT Team reviewed the Charter and discussed roles and responsibilities.

No changes were made to the current HOT charter.

GBO TESTING

McNary: security firewall issues resolved. Due to high water throughout summer, units operated full out. Minimal opportunities to optimize, minimal GBO data collected.

John Day: blade operating mechanism failures Units 5,6 & 11. Units will have blades blocked, no optimization effort will be performed on these units.

The Dalles: data collection underway. Digital governor design underway. First digital governor installation on Unit 19 Spring 2012. Good opportunity to develop new interface w GBO. GBO data collection will be coordinated w digital governor installation schedule.

Heath Check Discussed comparison data of magnito linear transducers vs. regular transducers.

Reviewed resolution vs. small discrepancies (not a big difference) for digital governors - redundant transducer gates, blades, power signals.

Comparitive testing suggested.

Chief Joseph Accusonic How Meters Discussed scintillation frame performance testing (2011) results. The report was distributed from.

Results and analysis revealed recommendation for no further testing at this time.

3D Cam Operations Survey Discussed the 3D Cam surveys were conducted - no major problems found. Lower Granite had minor issues.

Recommendation: The HOT team will approve current funding and request The HOT team approved additional funding for FY12 and FY -13.

The fall 3D Cam Surveys are in progress.

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Flow Data to GDACs Discussed GDACS flow data is making good progress.

The original problem with accusonic equipment which was replaced with new equipment has since been corrected.

Need more controllers from outside to plug into RTU cabinets.

Lower Granite Flow Meter Clean Up Dan Patla presented background information about testing of Lower Granit Unit #4.

Highlights: • Intake got Kaplan unit - testing caused a problem • Worked on clean up of wires, broken equipment for the past couple of

years Working on getting rid of the transducer Staff has changed over twice on project Working to move forward on project - not resolved yet.

Recommendation: Need more support from HDC on project (in house). Contractor needed for conduit. Need accusonics and flow meter contractor?

Monitoring Power and Temperatures at Store Start monitoring this type of data and make the project into a pilot test case by using temperatures for pumps.

Discussed wireless connected transducers that could be used to monitor governors, etc and the cost of new technology - testing applied to pumps, sump motors, oil pressure pumps, etc.

Subagreement PPEI Status Bob vanderBorg reported working with Carolyn Foote on PPEI amendment #20 which will be discussed at a future Capital Workgroup meeting.

Next Meeting March 1, 2012 at Portland BPA Headquarters. The date changed to May 16, 2012 at BPA.

See below for approved forecast amounts per last agreement between the USACE and BPA. Actual expenditures for FY10 and FY11 are estimated at $690,400 and $944,500. FY 12 is currently forecasted at $592,000.

Hydro Optimization Team (H.O.T.) (Expense)

ProjectlWorkltem Actuals FYOO-09

Allocation FY10 FY11 FY12

Walla Walla District McNary

PM 21 15 15 15 Team Meetings 4 HDC-HOT support 293 10 10 10

Total Walla Walla 318 25 251 25 Seattle District Chief Joseph

PM 10 5 5 5 Team Meetings 51 5 5 5 HDC-HOTsupport 94 15 15 15

Total Chief Joseph 155 25 25 25 Albeni Falls

Total Seattle 157 25 251 25

Portland District Bonneville

PM 43 10 10 10 Team Meetings 48 5 5 5 HDC-HOT support 158 15 15 15

Total Bonneville 248 30 30 30 The Dalles 3 John Day 71

Total Portland i 3561 301 30 30 Total Hydro Optimization Team 1 8131 Sol 80 80

Operational Surveys (Expense)

ProjectlWork Item Actuals FY00

09

Allocation

FY10 FY11 FY12

McNary

PM 12 5 5

E&D 82 20 20

S&A 0

EDC 0

Project Coord 5 5 5


Contracts 0

McNary Total 99 30 30 0

Ice Harbor

PM 7

E&D 142 13 13

S&A 0

EDC 0

Project Coord


Contracts 0

Ice Harbor Total 154 18 18 0

Lower Monumental

PM 1

E&D 33 14 14

S&A 0

EDC 0

Project Coord 5 5 5


Contracts 0

Lower Monumental Total 38 19 19 0

Little Goose

PM 3

E&D 38 13 13

S&A 0

EDC 0

Project Coord 5 5 5


Contracts 0

Little Goose Total 46 18 18

Lower Granite

PM 0

E&D 35 15 15

S&A 0

EDC 0

Project Coord 3


Contracts 01

Lower Granite Total 1 381 201 20

Total Operational Surveys - Walla Walla 1 3751 1051 1051 0


09

Allocation

FY10 FY11 FY12

The Dalles

PM 10

E&D 67 16 16

S&A 0

EDC 0



Contracts 0

The Dalles Total 98 211 21 0

Bonneville (BN2)

PM 9

E&D 33 10 10

S&A 0

EDC 0

Project Coord 0 4 4


Contracts 0

Bonneville B2 Total 42 14 14 0

Bonneville (BN1)

PM 2

E&D 52 10 10

S&A 0

EDC 0

Project Coord A 4 4


Contracts 0

Bonneville 131 Total 62 14 14 0

John Day

PM 10

E&D 85 14 14

S&A 0

EDC 0



Contracts 0

John Day Total 108 19 19 0

Total Operational Surveys - Portland 310 68 68 0

TOTAL OPERATIONAL SURVEYS 685 173 173 0

Gate/Blade Optimizer (Ti) DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRAMMING (Capital)



McNary PM 122 10 5 E&D 1,303 140 100 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 7 101 5 __ Contracting 0 Contracts 0

FY Totals 1,431 160 110 0

Ice Harbor PM 0 5 E&D 0 50 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 5 Contracting 0 Contracts 0

FY Totals 0 0 0 60

Lower Monumental PM 0 5 E&D 0 50 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 5 Contracting 0 Contracts 0

FY Totals 0 0 0 60 Little Goose PM 5 E&D 50 S&A EDC Project Coord 5 Contracting (Adv & Award) Contracts (programming) FY Totals 0 0 0 60 Dworshak 2 FY Totals 2 0 0 0 Lower Granite PM 2 5 E&D 0 50 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 5 Contracting (Adv & Award) 0 Contracts (programming) 0 FY Totals 2 0 0 60 Total Ti - WallaWalla 1,435 160 1101 240


FYOO-09


Bonneville PM 10 15 10 10

E&D 47 50 120 50

S&A 0

EDC 0 Project Coord 4 10 10 10

Contracting (Adv & Award) 0 Contracts (programming) 0 150

FY Totals 61 225 140 70

The DaIIes PM 0 15 10 10

E&D 50 120 50

S&A EDC Project Coord 5 10 10

Contracting (Adv & Award) 15 2 2

Contracts (programming) 200 10 5

FY Totals 1 285 152 77

John Day

PM 0 15 10 10

E&D 0 501 120 50

S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 3 5 10 10

Contracting Contracts 0 150

FY Totals 3 220 140 70

Total Ti - Portland 64 7301 432 217


FYOO-09

Allocation FY101 FY1 11 FY12

Ti - Seattle 0 01 01 0

TOTAL Gate/Blade Optimizer (Ti) Development & Programm 1,499 890 542 457

Blade Measurement Sensors (Capital)



TOTAL BLADE MEASUREMENT SENSORS - WALLA WALL 22 0 0 0

John Day

PM 16 5

E&D (P&S PROG) 269 20 S&A 4 EDC 0 Project Coord 24 Contracting (Adv & Award) 10 5 Contracts 109 50

FY Totals 432 80 0 0

TOTAL BLADE MEASUREMENT SENSORS - PORTLAND 432 80 01 0

TOTAL BLADE MEASUREMENT SENSORS 454 80 01 0

T2 (Static) Software Development and Programming (Capital)

Project/Work Item Actuals FYOO9


The Dalles 495 Bonneville


FY Totals 930 0 0 0 T2 - PORTLAND 1,425 0 0 0

Dworshak PM 8 E&D 113 20 S&A EDC Project Coord 5 Contracting Contracts

FY Totals 121 33 0 0 T2- WALLA WALLA 121 331 0 0

Ch. Joe PM 1 E&D 4 S&A EDC

- Project Coord Contracting (Adv & Award) Contracts (programming)

FY Totals 58 0 0 T2-Seattle 58 0 0 0

OTAL T2 (Static) Software Development and Programminc 1,605 33 01 0

Absolute Flow for Kaplan Turbines (Expense)

Allocation Actuals ___ _____ I Project/Work Item I FV0009 F F10 I FY11 I FY12 __ I

Flow



Ch Joe PM 10 10 E&D 155 70 80 S&A EDC Project Coord 10 20 Contracting (Adv & Award) 13 5 5 Contracts 196 75

FY Totals 372 170 115 0 TOTAL ABSOLUTE FLOW - SEATTLE 372 170 115 0

Flow Table Update for T2 Programming - Static (Capital)

Project/Work Item Actuals P100-09


TOTAL Flow Table Update for T2 - WALLA WALLA 2 0 0 0 Ch Joe

PM 29 10 E&D 10 135 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 30 Contracting 0 Contracts 0

FY Totals 39 175 0 0 Aibeni FaUs 21 Libby 13 TOTAL Flow Table Update for T2 - SEATTLE 72 175 0 0 TOTAL FLOW TABLE UPDATE FOR T2 - PORTLAND 44 0 0 0

TOTAL FLOW TABLE UPDATE FOR 12 1181 175 0 0 Install and Test Acoustic Flow Sensors (Capital)

Costs Cost Cost Cost Project/Work Item FYOO-09 FY10 FYI I FY12 Dworshak

PM 20 2 E&D 79

S&A 5 EDC 2 Project Coord 17 Contracting (Adv & Award) 3 Contracts 466

592 2 0 0

Lower Granite

PM 19 5 5 5 E&D 84 30 45 45

S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 66 5 5 5 Contracting (Adv & Award) 0 Contracts 571 45 0

740 40 100 55

TOTAL ACOUSTIC FLOW SENSORS - WALLA WALLA 1,332 42 100 55

Costs Cost Cost Cost Project/Work Item FYOO-09 FY10 FYI 1 FY12

Ch Joe PM 8 10 E&D 0 30 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 15 Contracting (Adv & Award) 0 Contracts 0

8 55 0 0 TOTAL ACOUSTIC FLOW SENSORS - SEATTLE 8 55 0 0

TOTAL ACOUSTIC FLOW SENSORS 1,3401 971 100 55

Kaplan and Francis Unit Health Check (Capital)

Project/Work Item Actuals FY00-09

Allocation FY10 FY11 I FY12

McNary PM 8 8 E&D 87 20 S&A 0 EDC 0 Project Coord 0 5 Contracting 0 Contracts 0

FY Totals 95 33 0 0 TOTAL Kaplan Health Check- Walla Walla 95 33 0 0 TOTAL Francis Health Check - Seattle 8 0 0 0 TOTAL Kaplan and Francis Unit HEALTH CHECK 1 1031 33 01 0

Winter Kennedy Tap Upgrades for Gate/Blade Optimizer (Ti) (Capital)


Allocation

FY10 FY11 FY12

McNary

PM 8

E&D 145 25 S&A 0

EDC 0

ProiectCoord 6 -Contracting 0

Contracts 0

FY Totals 159 25

TOTAL WINTER-KENNEDY TAPS - WALLA WALLA 159 25 01 0 TOTAL WINTER-KENNEDY TAPS - PORTLAND 0 0 01 0 TOTAL WINTER-KENNEDY TAPS - SEATLLE 0 0 0 0

TOTAL WINTER-KENNEDY TAPS 159 25 0 0