Requesting WEQ Standards Review Subcommittee Recommendations for NERC 2018 - 2020, Draft

Requesting WEQ Standards Review Subcommittee Recommendations for NERC 2018 - 2020, Draft Reliability Standards Development Plan

NERC has posted its draft recommendation for its 2018 - 2020 Reliability Standards Development Plan. After reviewing the draft document there may be several standards that could possibly impact NAESB WEQ Standards. I have the following draft recommendation for the SRS Subcommittee to consider as input for NAESB comments

NERC High Priority:

1. TPL - 007-2: Geomagnetic Disturbance Mitigation (Project 2013-3):

a. Recommendation - No Action

2. Modification to CIP Standards (Project 2016-02)- Estimated to be completed by May 1, 2018:

a. Recommend WEQ Cybersecurity Subcommittee (CSS) for follow-up.

NERC Medium Priority:

1. FAC-010, FAC-011, and FAC-014 (Project 2015-09): Establish and Communicate System Operating Limits. Estimated to be completed by April 1, 2018

a. Recommendation - No Action - Reliability Methodology

2. TPL-001: Single Points of Failure (Project 2015 -10). Estimated to be completed by April 1, 2018. Planning in accordance with MOD-010 and MOD-012.

a. Recommendation - Follow due to WEQ-023 Modeling Standard (Not yet FERC Approved as NAESB V3.1) 3. PRC-025-1 (Project 2016-04): Generator Relay Loadability; Estimated to be completed by April 1, 2018.

a. Recommendation - No Action

NERC Low Priority:

1. PER-001, PER-003, AND PER-004 (Project 2016-EPR-01): Personnel Performance, Training, and Qualifications Standards. Estimated to be completed by April 1, 2018. a. Recommendation - No Action

2. FAC-008 - Facility Rating (Project 2017-03): Periodic Review

a. Recommendation: TBD

3. INT-004, INT-006, INT-009, and INT-010 (Project 2017-04): Periodic Review of Interchange Scheduling and Coordination Standards. Estimated to be completed by August 1, 2018.

a. Recommendation: Place on Annual Plan item for WEQ CISS or SRS to monitor for impact to WEQ-004 and coordination with NERC may be required, with possible joint development.

4. NUC-001-3 - (Project 2017-05) Periodic Review of Nuclear Plant Interface Coordination

a. Recommendation: No Action

NERC Standard Review Team stated it would commence at least two Periodic Reviews in 2018 out of a possible 31 standards. Several of the standards may have some impact on the following NAESB WEQ Standards; below is sample of what standards NERC may review:

 BAL-005-02b: WEQ-005- Area Control Error (ACE) Equation Special Cases

 BAL-006-2: WEQ-007 - Inadvertent Interchange Payback

 IRO-006-5: WEQ-008 - Transmission Loading Relief (TLR) - Eastern Interconnection and NAESB WEQ Electronic Tagging - Functional Specification

 Complete NERC MOD Standards: WEQ-23 - Modeling, WEQ-004 Coordinated Interchange (CBM)

This high-level overview is intended to help expedite the conversation on July 13th. Any input prior or during the meeting would be greatly appreciated. If you choose to submit comments prior to the meeting, please send to Elizabeth Mallet at NAESB for posting to the SRS site. Thanks

Ronald L. Robinson