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Status
A 45-day formal comment period for draft two of BAL-007-1 - Near-term Energy Reliability Assessments and draft one of BAL-008-1 - Seasonal Energy Reliability Assessments will be conducted through 8 p.m. Eastern, Thursday, June 20, 2024.
Ballot pools will be open May 7 - June 5, 2024. If you had previously joined the ballot pool for the initial ballot for BAL-007-1, this ballot pool will be added to the pool for BAL-008-1.
Additional ballots for BAL-007-1 and initial ballots for BAL-008-1 and their implementation plans, as well as non-binding polls of the associated Violation Risk Factors and Violation Severity Levels will be conducted June 11 – 20, 2024.
Background
Project 2022-03 currently has two assigned Standard Authorization Requests (SARs) that seek to enhance reliability by requiring entities to perform Energy Reliability Assessments (ERAs) to evaluate energy assurance and develop Corrective Action Plan(s), Operating Plan(s), or other mitigating actions to address identified risks to each respective time horizons:
- Operations/operational planning time horizon (Operations SAR)
- Planning time horizon (Planning SAR)
The proposed new Reliability Standard is based on the Operations SAR. The remaining SAR will be addressed at a later date.
The Standards Committee (SC) accepted the revised SARs at its January 25, 2023 meeting. At the same meeting, the SC authorized drafting of the Reliability Standard(s) identified in the SARs. Since that time, the team has conducted several meetings, both remote and in-person, and posted a draft of a new standard for informal comment to solicit feedback.
Standard(s) Affected: TPL-001-5.1, EOP, TOP, and BAL
Purpose/Industry Need
This project will enhance reliability by requiring entities to perform energy reliability assessments to evaluate energy assurance and develop Corrective Action Plan(s) to address identified risks. Energy reliability assessments evaluate energy assurance across the Operations Planning, Near-Term Transmission Planning, and Long-Term Transmission Planning or equivalent time horizons by analyzing the expected resource mix availability (flexibility) and the expected availability of fuel during the study period.
1Energy_Assurance_White_Paper (nerc.com)
