TOP-003-5 — Operational Reliability Data
TOP-003-5 — Operational Reliability Data
Purpose
To ensure that the Transmission Operator and Balancing Authority have data needed to fulfill their operational and planning responsibilities.
Applicability
4.2. Balancing Authority
4.3. Generator Owner
4.4. Generator Operator
4.5. Transmission Owner
Effective Date
See Implementation Plan for Project 2019-06.
Requirements and Measures
R1. Each Transmission Operator shall maintain a documented specification for the data necessary for it to perform its Operational Planning Analyses, Real-time monitoring, and Real-time Assessments. The data specification shall include, but not be limited to: [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
1.1. A list of data and information needed by the Transmission Operator to support its Operational Planning Analyses, Real-time monitoring, and Real-time Assessments including non-BES data and external network data as deemed necessary by the Transmission Operator.
1.2. Provisions for notification of current Protection System and Remedial Action Scheme (RAS) status or degradation that impacts System reliability.
1.3. Provisions for notification of BES generating unit(s) during local forecasted cold weather to include:
1.3.1. Operating limitations based on:
1.3.1.1. capability and availability;
1.3.1.2. fuel supply and inventory concerns;
1.3.1.3. fuel switching capabilities; and
1.3.1.4. environmental constraints
1.3.2. Generating unit(s) minimum:
1.3.2.1. design temperature; or
1.3.2.2. historical operating temperature; or
1.3.2.3. current cold weather performance temperature determined by an engineering analysis.
1.4. A periodicity for providing data.
1.5. The deadline by which the respondent is to provide the indicated data.
M1. Each Transmission Operator shall make available its dated, current, in force documented specification for data.
R2. Each Balancing Authority shall maintain a documented specification for the data necessary for it to perform its analysis functions and Real-time monitoring. The data specification shall include, but not be limited to: [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
2.1. A list of data and information needed by the Balancing Authority to support its analysis functions and Real-time monitoring.
2.2. Provisions for notification of current Protection System and Remedial Action Scheme status or degradation that impacts System reliability.
2.3. Provisions for notification of BES generating unit(s) status during local forecasted cold weather to include:
2.3.1. Operating limitations based on:
2.3.1.1. capability and availability;
2.3.1.2. fuel supply and inventory concerns;
2.3.1.3. fuel switching capabilities; and
2.3.1.4. environmental constraints.
2.3.2. Generating unit(s) minimum:
2.3.2.1. design temperature; or
2.3.2.2. historical operating temperature; or
2.3.2.3. current cold weather performance temperature determined by an engineering analysis.
2.4. A periodicity for providing data.
2.5. The deadline by which the respondent is to provide the indicated data.
M2. Each Balancing Authority shall make available its dated, current, in force documented specification for data.
R3. Each Transmission Operator shall distribute its data specification to entities that have data required by the Transmission Operator’s Operational Planning Analyses, Realtime monitoring, and Real-time Assessments. [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
M3. Each Transmission Operator shall make available evidence that it has distributed its data specification to entities that have data required by the Transmission Operator’s Operational Planning Analyses, Real-time monitoring, and Real-time Assessments. Such evidence could include but is not limited to web postings with an electronic notice of the posting, dated operator logs, voice recordings, postal receipts showing the recipient, date and contents, or e-mail records.
R4. Each Balancing Authority shall distribute its data specification to entities that have data required by the Balancing Authority’s analysis functions and Real-time monitoring. [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
M4. Each Balancing Authority shall make available evidence that it has distributed its data specification to entities that have data required by the Balancing Authority’s analysis functions and Real-time monitoring. Such evidence could include but is not limited to web postings with an electronic notice of the posting, dated operator logs, voice recordings, postal receipts showing the recipient, or e-mail records.
R5. Each Transmission Operator, Balancing Authority, Generator Owner, Generator Operator, Transmission Owner, and Distribution Provider receiving a data specification in Requirement R3 or R4 shall satisfy the obligations of the documented specifications using: [Violation Risk Factor: Medium] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning, Same-Day Operations, Real-time Operations]
5.1. A mutually agreeable format
5.2. A mutually agreeable process for resolving data conflicts
5.3. A mutually agreeable security protocol
M5. Each Transmission Operator, Balancing Authority, Generator Owner, Generator Operator, Transmission Owner, and Distribution Provider receiving a data specification in Requirement R3 or R4 shall make available evidence that it has satisfied the obligations of the documented specifications. Such evidence could include, but is not limited to, electronic or hard copies of data transmittals or attestations of receiving entities.
Compliance
1. Compliance Monitoring Process
1.1. Compliance Enforcement Authority:
“Compliance Enforcement Authority” (CEA) means NERC or the Regional Entity, or any entity as otherwise designated by an Applicable Governmental Authority, in their respective roles of monitoring and/or enforcing compliance with mandatory and enforceable Reliability Standards in their respective jurisdictions.
1.2. Evidence Retention:
The following evidence retention period(s) identify the period of time an entity is required to retain specific evidence to demonstrate compliance. For instances where the evidence retention period specified below is shorter than the time since the last audit, the Compliance Enforcement Authority may ask an entity to provide other evidence to show that it was compliant for the full time period since the last audit.
Each responsible entity shall keep data or evidence to show compliance as identified below unless directed by its Compliance Enforcement Authority to retain specific evidence for a longer period of time as part of an investigation:
Each Transmission Operator shall retain its dated, current, in force, documented specification for the data necessary for it to perform its Operational Planning Analyses, Real-time monitoring, and Real-time Assessments in accordance with Requirement R1 and Measurement M1 as well as any documents in force since the last compliance audit.
Each Balancing Authority shall retain its dated, current, in force, documented specification for the data necessary for it to perform its analysis functions and Real-time monitoring in accordance with Requirement R2 and Measurement M2 as well as any documents in force since the last compliance audit.
Each Transmission Operator shall retain evidence for three calendar years that it has distributed its data specification to entities that have data required by the Transmission Operator’s Operational Planning Analyses, Real-time monitoring, and Real-time Assessments in accordance with Requirement R3 and Measurement M3.
Each Balancing Authority shall retain evidence for three calendar years that it has distributed its data specification to entities that have data required by the Balancing Authority’s analysis functions and Real-time monitoring in accordance with Requirement R4 and Measurement M4.
Each Balancing Authority, Generator Owner, Generator Operator, Transmission Operator, Transmission Owner, and Distribution Provider receiving a data specification in Requirement R3 or R4 shall retain evidence for the most recent 90-calendar days that it has satisfied the obligations of the documented specifications in accordance with Requirement R5 and Measurement M5.
1.3. Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program:
As defined in the NERC Rules of Procedure, “Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program” refers to the identification of the processes that will be used to evaluate data or information for the purpose of assessing performance or outcomes with the associated reliability standard.