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SAR - Urgent Action - BAL-004-1 - Time Error Correction
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Drafting Team
Rosters
Status
Approved by Board of Trustees on March 26, 2008.
Pending regulatory approval.
Purpose/Industry Need
In Requirement 1, remove requirement that Operating Committee designate
Interconnection Time Monitor because the Operating Committee is not a
user/owner/operator.
Remove Requirement R2
because the Interconnection Time Monitor is a voluntary service and,
therefore, should not be penalized for non compliance. Considering the
penalty for non-compliance could be as high as $335k, the
Interconnections run the risk of having no one offer to monitor time
error and manage time error corrections. While time error itself does
not jeopardize Interconnection reliability, time correction methods that
depend on either frequency or bias offsets can affect Interconnection
reliability. Therefore, it is important for reliability coordinators to
continue to provide this voluntary service.
Finally, it is not
appropriate for NERC standards to compel an entity to comply with NAESB
business practices.
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