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Coordinate Operations Standard
Jason Shaver
Standard Drafting Team Chair
September 29, 2005
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Presentation Overview
Proposed Standards
Key Concepts Supporting Standards
Key Requirements
V0 Retirements
Effective Dates
Questions
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Coordinate Operations Standards:
IRO-014
Procedures, Process or Plans to Support Coordinate Between Reliability Coordinators
IRO-015 Notification and Information Exchange
Between Reliability Coordinators
IRO-016 Coordination of Real-Time Activities Between
Reliability Coordinators
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Key Concepts Purpose & Scope
Ensure RC’s operations are coordinated such that there’s no adverse impact on other RCs
Preserve the reliability benefits of interconnected operations
Focus solely on RC to RC coordination
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Key Concepts: Build on Other Standards
Other Standards Require: Each RC must be Certified Each RC must have procedures, processes
& plans for its own area Each RC must monitor & direct others to
protect its own area
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Key Concepts:Require RC to RC Cooperation Agree to take actions under specified
conditions (documented in procedures, processes, plans)
Exchange information Notify others of impactive conditions or
events
Coordinate actions
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IRO-014Procedures, Processes, Plans
Ensure documents address all required topics Have agreement from those who will take actions Have latest version of each document available to
system operators (includes those developed by other RCs)
Company-specific version of documents developed by other RCs may be developed to support (not replace) an RC to RC document
Available to system operators Reference source document Support source document
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IRO-014Procedures, Processes, Plans
Documents that require notification, information exchange or coordination involving multiple RCs
‘Impactive’ operating scenarios Other activities:
Communication and real-time notifications
Energy and capacity shortages Outage information Voltage control Information exchanged to support
reliability assessments
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IRO-015 Notifications & Information Exchange
Follow approved procedures: Notify other RCs of impactive issues
Participate in agreed-upon conference calls and other communications forums
Provide reliability-related information upon request
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IRO-016Coordination
RC that identifies a problem notifies impacted RCs
RCs involved agree on problem, solution, actions –document actions & notify others
If RCs disagree – each re-evaluates conflicting information, takes action to preserve RC Area and Interconnection, documents actions & notifies others
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Blackout Findings:
Need to communicate emergency conditions to neighbor systems
These standards: Require a procedure (agreed-upon with other
RCs) for making notifications Require following procedure in making
notifications of anything ‘impactive’ to another RC’s Area
Require participation in agreed-upon conference calls and other communications forums
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Implementation Plan – Revise V0
COM-002 Communications and Coordination
EOP-002 Capacity and Energy Emergencies
IRO-003 RC – Wide Area View
IRO-004 RC – Operations Planning
IRO-005 RC – Current Day Operations
TOP-005 Operational Reliability Information
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COM-002 Communications & Coordination
Revise/retire requirements R2., R2.1, R2.2, R2.3 for RC to relay information to other RCs for a select set of scenarios
New standards require RCs to relay information to one another for a wider scope of scenarios
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EOP-002 Capacity & Energy Emergencies
Retire/revise requirements R2 and R4 for RC to implement its capacity and energy emergency plan & inform other RCs
New standards require RCs to coordinate the development and implementation
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IRO-003 RC – Wide Area ViewIRO-005 Current Day Operations
Retire/revise requirements (IRO-003 R2 and IRO-005 R11) to notify neighboring RC of operational concerns in the neighboring RC Area
New standards require notification and cooperation in resolving the operational concern
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IRO-004RC – Operations Planning
Retire requirement R6 for RC to initiate a conference call if warranted based on a reliability analysis
New standards require RCs to initiate conference calls for a wider array of scenarios
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IRO-004 - RC – Operations Planning
Modify the RCs requirements to issue alerts (IRO-004 R7 and IRO-005 R15)
New Standards require notifications for a wider array of scenarios – alerts may not be practical for all situations – new Standards don’t reference a specific tool
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IRO-005RC – Current Day Operations
Retire part of R7 that requires the RC to participate in NERC hotline discussions
New Standards require participation in a wider array of communications for a more specific set of scenarios – new Standards don’t reference a specific tool
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IRO-005RC – Current Day Operations
Retire part of R9 that requires the RC to coordinate with other RCsto develop action plans for exceeding limits and to coordinate outages
New Standards require coordination be agreed upon in advance and then coordinated per agreement for a wide array of scenarios, including limits and outages
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IRO-005RC – Current Day Operations
Retire parts of R12 that require the RC to be aware of the impact of a special protection system on inter-area flows
New Standards require the RCs to have procedures that address issues in one RC Area that may have an adverse reliability impact on other RC Areas
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TOP-005 Operational Reliability Information
Retire requirement (R5) for the RC to share data needed for reliability assessments and coordination of operations
New Standards require coordination be agreed upon in advance and then coordinated per agreement for a wide array of scenarios, including coordination of info needed for reliability assessments
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Effective Dates 1st Ballot Oct 4 – 13, 2005
2nd Ballot Oct 21-31, 2005
BOT Adoption Nov 1, 2005
Effective Nov 1, 2006
RCs have 1 full year to become compliant
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Questions