Status:
The drafting team has posted the consideration of comments for the BAL-004-1 SAR Version 1.

Purpose/Industry Need:
The Resources Subcommittee proposes revising BAL-004-0, to incorporate manual and automatic time error correction reliability requirements and measures; add three terms to the NERC Glossary of Terms related to this proposed standard; and include a regional difference for the Eastern Interconnection Regional Reliability Organizations.

The Resources Subcommittee recommends these Time Error Correction reliability requirements under all conditions. Time Error Correction affect each interconnection's frequency profile which has serious reliability implications. Every NERC reliability standard calculation that uses scheduled frequency is affected by this standard. Automatic time error correction will drive Balancing Authorities to pay back their frequency deviations in a relatively prompt manner after the deviations occur (within a matter of hours).

Note: The SAR drafting team will work cooperatively with NAESB to revise this standard to assure it is developed in harmony with the NAESB business practices standard(s).