NERC vs. RTOs July 16, 2001
NERC Structure Transformation to NAERO Independent Board of Trustees (June 2001) 8 + 1 members Stakeholder Committee Special Task Force Standing Committees “50/50” Voting not working No market segment can block, no market segment can carry
NERC Process Organization Standards Process “Core” Reliability Functions Practices & Procedures? Compliance Templates Control Area Criteria Task Force Model Independence of Security Coordinators Source – Sink Data Requirements ANSI accreditation
Reliability vs. Commercial Rules (NERC vs RTOs) Tagging Tools Operating Policy 3 – Interchange E-Tag Standards & Communications Protocol Needs of MISO and other RTOs Generator Interconnection Agreements Planning Standards (and Compliance Templates) MAIN vs. MISO Electronic Scheduling OASIS Phase II Congestion Management
Reliability vs. Commercial Rules (NERC vs RTOs) “IDC” Granularity Source and sink data requirements MISO “Partial Path Reservations” Congestion Management NERC TLR, Operating Policy 9 – Security Coordination RTO designs
GISB/EISB Commercial Standards? FERC Technical Conference on RTO Seams Need for Common Business Practices Electronic Scheduling Collaborative NAERO or EISB?