NERC Operating Committee Activities NERC Operating Committee Activities UpdateUpdateJune 10-11, 2014 Meeting June 10-11, 2014 Meeting

Current Activity SummaryCurrent Activity Summary

Items Discussed in NERC OC• New NERC Reliability Guidelines – “Generating Unit Operations during

Complete Loss of Communications”

• NERC Interchange Subcommittee

• Essential Reliability Services Task Force

• Lessons Learned Events

• Eastern Interconnection Frequency Response Initiative

• BAAL (RBC) Field Trial

• CIP-014-1 (Physical Security)

• Revisions to TOP/IRO Reliability Standards

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Current Activity SummaryCurrent Activity Summary

Items of Interest

• NERC Reliability Guideline

o Generating Unit Operations during Complete Loss of Communications

– Posted for 45-day Industry Comment

– Revised

– Approved by NERC OC

• NERC Interchange Subcommittee

– Decommissioned.

• Essential Reliability Services (ERS) Task Force

o Developing a primer on essential reliability services for regulators, policy makers, and industry leadership.

– Begin with tutorial identifying each ERS and its relationship to the BES.

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Current Activity SummaryCurrent Activity Summary

Items of Interest

• Lessons Learned

o Monitoring Contractor Work Practices

o Hydro Quebec Event on July 3, 2013 – fire

o Toronto Event on July 8, 2013 – flooding

• Eastern Interconnection Frequency Response Initiative

• BAAL (RBC) Field Trialo Field Trial Report being developed for NERC OC by BARC Drafting Team

• CIP-014-1 (Physical Security)o Standard only includes those transmission stations and transmission substations and

associated primary control centers) that if rendered inoperable or damaged could result in widespread instability, uncontrolled separation, or cascading.

• Revisions to TOP/IRO Reliability Standards

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Current Standards ActivityCurrent Standards Activity

Items of Interest

• Standard BAL-003-1 – Implementation Status

• Standards BAL-004, 005, & 006 – Update Periodic Review

• Standard EOP-011 – Fran Halpin

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