RSC An Overview of Fill-In-the-Blanks (FIB) Reliability Standards Farzaneh Tafreshi Manager, Reliability Standards Texas Regional Entity

2 RSC Regional Reliability Standards ●Any Regional Entity may develop, through its own processes, separate Standards that go beyond, add detail to, or implement NERC Reliability Standards ●A Regional Standard shall be more stringent than a continent-wide reliability standard, including a regional difference that addresses matters that the continent-wide reliability standard does not, or shall be a regional difference necessitated by a physical difference in the bulk power system

3 RSC Regional Reliability Standards (Cont.) ●Proposed Reliability Standards shall be subject to approval by NERC, as the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO), and by FERC before becoming mandatory and enforceable under Section 215 of the FPA. ●No Standard shall be effective within the Texas RE area unless filed by NERC with FERC and approved by FERC.

4 RSC Regional Reliability Standards (Cont.) ●The NERC Regional Reliability Standards Working Group (RRSWG) was established in May of 2006Regional Reliability Standards Working Group (RRSWG) ●Manage the development of specific regional reliability standards and the development of regional information for certain NERC reliability standards, based on the NERC three-year standards work plan

5 RSC Regional Reliability Standards (Cont.) ●The RRSWG group coordinates regional activities that are intrinsically related to the development of Regional Reliability Standards between the eight Regional Entities, NERC staff, and industry volunteers working on NERC reliability standards ●The RRSWG has identified 4 NERC standards to have FIB characteristics and has recommended to have four Regional Reliability Standards to be developed by each region in support of those NERC standards

6 RSC Intended Number of Regional Standards ●NERC’s 3 year plan (2008 through 2010) has listed specific projects to address various issues by grouping similar standards. ●Reliability Standards Work Plan: Reliability Standards Work Plan: ●Volume III: Regional Reliability Standards Projects

7 RSC Fill in the Blank Standards ●Project Underfrequency Load Shedding ●Project Balancing Authority Controls ●Project Disturbance Monitoring ●Project Protection Systems

8 RSC Project Underfrequency Load Shedding PRC-006 — Development and Documentation of Regional ReliabilitOrganizations Underfrequency Load Shedding Programs PRC-007 — Assuring Consistency with Regional UFLS Programs PRC-009 — UFLS Performance Following an Underfrequency Event ency_Load_Shedding.html ency_Load_Shedding.html Status First draft to be posted for comments around April 2008

9 RSC UFLS Project Schedule

10 RSC Project Balancing Authority Controls BAL-002, and BAL-004 to BAL-006 BAL-002 — Disturbance Control Performance y_Controls_Project_ html Status The Standards Committee is seeking industry experts to serve on the Balancing Authority Control Standard drafting Team beginning January 2, 2008.

11 RSC BA Project Schedule

12 RSC Project Disturbance Monitoring PRC-002 — Define and Document Disturbance Monitoring and Equipment Requirements PRC-018 — Disturbance Monitoring Equipment Installation and Data oring_Project_ html Status May change to a continent wide standard

13 RSC DM Project Schedule

14 RSC Project Protection Systems PRC-003,PRC-004, PRC-012, PRC-014, and PRC-016 PRC-012 — Special Protection System Review Status No update is available at this time

15 RSC Next Step/ Updates ●An update on the status of all NERC FIB standards projects will be provided to the RRSWG at the March 26 meeting in Charlotte ●The regions will also discuss their regional standards activities ●An update will be provided to RSC at the April meeting

16 RSC Farzaneh Tafreshi Texas Regional Entity