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Project 2010-06
Results-based Reliability Standards
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Status:
In order to apply the
concepts globally in the standards development process, the
results-based standards initiative will be handed over to the Standards
Committee after the May 2010 NERC Board of Trustees meeting.
The ad hoc team has developed an aggressive schedule for the
transition, which includes, among others, these important steps:
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With Standards Committee approval, engage selected
additional drafting team(s); and in consultation with
those team(s), guide and expedite drafting of
results-based standard(s).
Develop
a training/orientation program for drafting teams,
including job aids (with criteria) to guide development
of results-based standards.
Develop a road map for prioritized development of
results-based standards and incorporate more fully into
the three-year development plan.
Work with Standards Committee to institutionalize the
results-based approach and carry out the expanded role
of the Standards Committee in managing the quality and
timeliness of ongoing and future standards projects.
Background:
In 2009, a team of industry,
NERC, and Regional Entity representatives was formed to develop
recommendations to ensure NERC’s reliability standards are designed to
have the greatest possible positive effect on the reliability of the
bulk power system. The work
of this ad hoc team resulted in a
Proposal to Develop Results-Based Reliability Standards, a
report outlining a guiding set of principles based on performance and
risk-based methods and offering specific recommendations for improving
the development and format of reliability standards.
The team presented the concepts of this
“results-based standards” initiative to various NERC committees, to
industry stakeholders during a Webinar for the annual update of the NERC
Reliability Standards Development Plan, and to the NERC Board of
Trustees. The ideas received
widespread support from the audiences.
At its November 4, 2009 meeting, the NERC Board of Trustees
endorsed the recommendations and asked the ad hoc team to continue
working on the project to more fully develop an implementation plan.
An important goal for the ad hoc team was to identify a set of
reliability standards for a proof-of-concept demonstration of
results-based standards. A
subset of the team was tasked with recommending standards for which a
near-term revision could have the greatest possible positive effect on
the reliability of the bulk power system.
On January 14, 2010, the Standards Committee approved the ad hoc
team’s recommendation to use FAC-003-2 — Transmission Vegetation
Management Program, the standard under development in
Project 2007-07: Vegetation Management, as the initial
proof-of-concept results-based standard.
Throughout the year, the ad hoc team will be communicating the progress
of this results-based initiative, including status updates on the
Results-based Reliability Standards project page:
http://www.nerc.com/filez/standards/Project2010-06_Results-based_Reliability_Standards.html.
The team enlisted the assistance of the NERC Standards Committee
Communications and Planning Subcommittee to develop an overall
communications plan for this effort, which was approved by the Standards
Committee in January. The goal of
the communication plan is to inform and educate reliability stakeholders
about the results-based standards initiative, and promote input and
participation from reliability stakeholders.
If you have further questions associated with this effort, you
may contact Chris Hajovski of RRI Energy (CJHajovsky@rrienergy.com)
or David Taylor of NERC (david.taylor@nerc.net),
the co-chairs of the ad hoc team.
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