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The project drafting team has been appointed by the Standards Committee(SC) and will review the comments from the Project 2024-01 Rules of Procedure Definitions Alignment (Generator Owner and Generator Operator) Definition Alignment Standard Authorization Request (SAR).
UPDATE: The Standards Committee approved an additional SAR at their July 17 meeting, IBR Registration, and Standards Applicability Glossary Update, to be reviewed by the drafting team assigned to this project. The comment period for this second SAR concluded at 8 p.m. Eastern, Monday, September 16, 2024. Additional questions were added to the comment form to encompass thorough feedback from industry. Original comments will be preserved and reviewed by the assigned drafting team members.
Background
The project will address the definitions for Generator Owners and Generator Operators within the NERC Glossary of Terms to ensure the inclusion of inverter-based resources (IBRs) on the Bulk-Power System (BPS) that do not meet the current definition of Bulk Electric System (BES), but do meet registration criteria updated with the June 27, 2024 approved changes to the NERC Rules of Procedure. See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Docket No. RD22-4-000 .
In March 2024, NERC proposed changes to its Rules of Procedure registry criteria to include certain non-BES IBRs in the Generator Owner (GOs) and Generator Operator (GOP) categories. Revising the GO and GOP definitions in the NERC Glossary of Terms to match the registry criteria will ensure these previously unregistered IBRs will be subject to the NERC Reliability Standards and mitigate their impacts on the BPS. The
revisions to the NERC Rules of Procedure were submitted to FERC in response to
direction to NERC to develop a work plan to address the registration of these
IBRs and ensure their compliance with Reliability Standards by certain
milestone dates. See Registration of Inverter-Based Resources,
181 FERC ¶
61,124 (Nov. 17, 2022)
Standard(s) Affected: The following Standards will require no revisions to be applicable to Category 2 Generator Owners/Operators following the approval of revised definitions: BAL-001-TRE-2, IRO-010-5, MOD-032-1, PRC-012-2, PRC-017-1, TOP-003-6.1, VAR-001-5, VAR-002-4.1. The Implementation Plan for this project will provide more detailed information regarding effective dates and any phased-in implementation.
Purpose/Industry Need
The goal of this project is to match the NERC Glossary of Terms definitions of Generator Owner and Generator Operator with the revised definitions contained in the Rules of Procedure registry criteria for Generator Owner and Generator Operator.
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