NERC NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORPORATION WECC Western - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

NERC NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORPORATION WECC Western Electricity Coordinating Council

A Brief History. Nov 9, 1965- Largest Blackout to this date occurred, 30 million people lost power in the northeastern United States and Ontario, Canada June 1, 1968- National Electric Reliability Council (NERC) is established in response to 1965 Blackout. July 13, 1977- Blackout New York City. This led to the legislature enabling the federal government to propose limited voluntary reliability standards.

History Continued…  1993- NERC published “NERC 2000” a four- part plan that recommended mandatory compliance.  August 14, 2003- Worst Blackout ever as 50 Million people lost power in Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. and Ontario.

The Effects of 2003 Blackout.  August 8, 2005- U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 enacted authorizing the creation of a self-regulatory “Electric Reliability Organization” that would span North America, with FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) oversight in the U.S.

Designation of NERC as “ERO” July 2006- NERC was designated by FERC as the “Electric Reliability Organization” for the United States. March 2007- FERC Order 693 approved 83 NERC Reliability Standards. (The First set of legally enforceable standards for the Bulk Power System) April 2007- FERC approved eight delegation agreements to the eight regions to monitor and enforce compliance.

WECC AND OTHER 7 REGIONS

JUNE 18, 2007  COMPLIANCE WITH APPROVED NERC STANDARDS BECAME MANDATORY!!

FERC Order 706  January 2008- FERC Approved eight Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards.  These 8 Standards have 43 Requirements, and 125 Sub-Requirements.

Constantly Changing Standards  As of October 1, 2011 there will be 116 FERC Approved Standards  These Standards can be further broke down to 484 Requirements.  Which can be further broke down to 849 Sub- Requirements  TOTAL = 1333 Total Requirements

Applicable to Okanogan…  Okanogan has 55 applicable NERC Standards  141 applicable NERC requirements  520 applicable NERC sub-requirements  Total 661 Requirements

Why the difference in number of Requirements? NERC looks at each Electric Entity and determines which NERC Functions they must register. Okanogan PUD is registered as: (TO) Transmission Owner (LSE) Load-Serving Entity (DP) Distribution Provider (PSE) Purchasing and Selling Entity

What is not different…  Once an entity has been registered for its designated functions, there are no differences in their level of compliance to the Reliability Standards.  It does not matter if you are Okanogan PUD, Seattle City Light, or Bonneville Power Administration

What if there is Non- Compliance?  Each requirement and sub-requirement has an associated monetary penalty, that is associated with it’s level of Risk and Severity.  These Monetary Penalties range from $1,000/violation/day TO $1,000,000/violation/day.

Average Penalties/violation  2008- Zero  2009- $1,875  2010-$19,765  2011- Unknown yet!  2012- Our Audit year…

 Questions?