1. NERC vs. RTOs
July 16, 2001

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. GISB/EISB Commercial Standards?
FERC Technical Conference on RTO Seams
Need for Common Business Practices
Electronic Scheduling Collaborative
NAERO or EISB?