IRO-015-1: Notifications and Information Exchange Between Reliability Coordinators

Purpose
To ensure that each Reliability Coordinator’s operations are coordinated such  that they will not have an Adverse Reliability Impact on other Reliability Coordinator Areas and to preserve the reliability benefits of interconnected operations.

Applicability
Reliability Coordinators

Effective Date
November 1, 2006

Requirements
R1. The Reliability Coordinator shall follow its Operating Procedures, Processes, or Plans for making notifications and exchanging reliability-related information with other Reliability Coordinators.

R1.1. The Reliability Coordinator shall make notifications to other Reliability Coordinators of conditions in its Reliability Coordinator Area that may impact other Reliability Coordinator Areas.

R2. The Reliability Coordinator shall participate in agreed upon conference calls and other communication forums with adjacent Reliability Coordinators.

R2.1. The frequency of these conference calls shall be agreed upon by all involved Reliability Coordinators and shall be at least weekly.

R3. The Reliability Coordinator shall provide reliability-related information as requested by other Reliability Coordinators.

Measures
M1. The Reliability Coordinator shall have evidence (such as operator logs or other data sources) it  has followed its Operating Procedures, Processes, or Plans for notifying other Reliability Coordinators of conditions in its Reliability Coordinator Area that may impact other Reliability Coordinator Areas.

M2. The Reliability Coordinator shall have evidence (such as operator logs or other data sources) that it participated in agreed upon (at least weekly) conference calls and other communication forums with adjacent Reliability Coordinators.

M3. The Reliability Coordinator shall have evidence that it provided requested reliability-related information to other Reliability Coordinators.