Texas Regional Entity Presentation to UFLS SDT

July 2008 UFLS

Texas Regional Entity

Presentation to UFLS SDT

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Delegation Agreements Between NERC and REs

Delegated functions:

Compliance enforcement

Development of Regional standards / Regional Variance

• FERC approved the Texas RE Standards Development Process as part of the delegation agreement on April 19, 2007

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Key Role Players

● Requester/Originator of a Standard or Variance● Reliability Standards Committee (RSC)● Reliability Standards Manager (RSM)● Reliability and Operations Subcommittee (ROS)● Standards Drafting Team (SDT)● Registered Ballot Body (RBB)

Ballot Pool (BP)● Texas RE Board of Directors (BOD)● NERC Board of Trustees (BOT)● FERC

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Reliability Standards Committee (Cont.)

Reliability Standards Committee (RSC)

Review and consider SARs to be assigned for development

Prioritize the development of SARs

Request ROS to assemble the Standard Drafting Team (SDT)

Declare an expected date for the SDT work to be completed and available for consideration by the NERC Registered Entity in ERCOT region

Evaluate a draft standard for completion and readiness for posting for comments and/or voting by RBB

Recommend to forward the Draft standard package to the TRE BOD for approval

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Reliability and Operations Subcommittee (ROS)

Reliability and Operations Subcommittee (ROS)

Appoints the SDT interim chair

*The SDT will elect the permanent Chair and Vice-Chair at its first meeting

Assemble a qualified balanced slate for the SDT

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Standard Drafting Team

Typically includes a member of the Texas RE staff and the originator in addition to the field Subject Matter Experts (SME) assigned by ROS

Standard Drafting Team

A team of technical experts assigned by ROS

Collectively have the necessary technical expertise and work process skills pertaining to the particular SAR subject

Review stakeholders comments and consider modification to the draft standard

Work on the technical aspect of the standard

Report to RSC on the work progress and make appropriate recommendations as needed

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Regional Standards Process Overview

SAR Submitted

RSC Evaluation and disposition of

SAR

ROSforms SDT

SDT

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Regional Standards Process Overview ( Cont.)

SDT RSC Evaluation

Posting for Comments

More work needed

SDT responds to comments and considers modification to the draft standard

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Regional Standards Process Overview ( Cont.)

RSC recommends posting for vote

RBB/BP

Forward the package for TRE BOD approval

Evaluation by NERC and approval by NERC BOT

NERC filing to seek FERC approval

Reject

Remand

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Regional Standards Process Overview ( Cont.)

● Proposed regional reliability standard is subject to review by NERC, and approval by NERC Board of Trustees

● Upon approval by FERC, Regional reliability standards, shall be made part of the body of NERC reliability standards and shall be enforced upon all applicable bulk-power system owners, operators, and users within the ERCOT region, regardless of membership in the region.

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Standard Drafting Team

● Team of Subject Matter Experts● Use their specific expertise to lead the

development and refinement of the technical and detailed standards

● Encourage and coordinate inter-industry examination and consensus

● Ensure that Regional Standards are technically accurate, clear, enforceable, and provide an adequate level of reliability for the ERCOT Bulk Power System

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General Documents for SDT

● Approved SAR ● Standard Drafting Team Roster ● Reliability Standards Process● Regional Reliability Standards numbering

convention ● Any other relevant material ● Texas Regional Entity Standards Drafting Team

Procedure

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Actions for the First SDT Meeting

● Elect a permanent Chair and a Vice-chair

● Review the following items:

Standards Development Process Responsibilities and tasks of the SDT members

● Propose Proposed timetable with target dates and key milestones (Project Schedule and Plan)

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SDT Work Products

● A draft Regional Standard consistent with the SAR on which it was based

● An assessment of the impact of the SAR on neighboring regions and appropriate input from the neighboring regions if the SAR is determined to impact any neighboring region

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SDT Work Products (Cont.)

● Identification of any existing Regional Standard that will be deleted, in part or whole, or otherwise impacted by the implementation of the draft Standard

● Technical reports and/or work papers that provide technical support for the draft Regional Standard under consideration

● Document the perceived reliability impact should the Regional Standard be approved

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SDT Work Products (Cont.)

● SDT is also responsible for developing all required compliance and performance elements and associated questions for a Comment Form.

● An implementation plan, including the nature, extent and duration of field-testing, if any.

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General Administrative for SDT

● Voting

Voting may take place during formal meetings or may take place through electronic means as the SDT Chair deems necessary.

Approval of any action of a SDT requires two-thirds of the SDT member votes cast.

Only those team members who are appointed by the ROS have the right to vote.

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General Administrative for SDT (Cont.)

● Quorum A quorum requires two-thirds of the voting

members of the SDT. The voting members are those members appointed by the ROS.

● Proxies Proxies for SDT voting are not allowed.

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General Administrative for SDT (Cont.)

● Open Meetings Meetings of SDTs shall be open to all

interested parties. The SDT Chair is responsible for conducting

the meetings in a responsible, timely and efficient manner.

To accomplish its assigned tasks there may be times when the Chair has to limit the participation of guests to ensure that the SDT accomplishes its assigned tasks in a timely and efficient manner.

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Project 2007-01 Underfrequency Load Shedding

PRC-006 — Development and Documentation of Regional Reliability Organizations Underfrequency Load Shedding Programs

PRC-007 — Assuring Consistency with Regional UFLS Programs

PRC-009 — UFLS Performance Following an Underfrequency Event

http://www.nerc.com/~filez/standards/Underfrequency_Load_Shedding.html

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Project 2007-01: UFLS ( Cont.)

Current Working View

First draft is posted for comments (July 2 to Aug 15)

ftp://www.nerc.com/pub/sys/all_updl/standards/announcements/Standards_Announcements_CIP_and_UFLS_Comment_Periods_Open_2008July02.pdf

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Regional UFLS

● SAR-002-TRE-01: Development and Documentation of Regional UFLS Program

Accepted by RSC on May 27 SDT slate was accepted by ROS on June 12,

2008

● RSC directed the Regional UFLS SDT to review and comment on the NERC UFLS Draft.

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