NERC Compliance Questionnaire and Reliability Standard Audit Worksheet
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Compliance Questionnaire and
Reliability Standard Audit Worksheet
MOD-001-1a—Available Transmission System Capability
Registered Entity: (Must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority)
NCR Number: (Must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority)
Applicable Function(s):TOP, TSP
Auditors:
Disclaimer
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Subject Matter Experts
Identify your company’s subject matter expert(s) responsible for this Reliability Standard. Include the person's title, organization, and the requirement(s) for which they are responsible. Include additional sheets if necessary.
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
SME Name / Title / Organization / RequirementReliability Standard Language
MOD-001-1a—Available Transmission Capability
Purpose:
To ensure that calculations are performed by Transmission Service Providers to maintain awareness of available transmission system capability and future flows on their own systems as well as those of their neighbors.
Applicability:
Transmission Service Provider
Transmission Operator
NERC BOT Approval Date:
FERC Approval Date:
Reliability Standard Enforcement Date in the United States:
Requirements:
R1.Each Transmission Operator shall select one of the methodologies[1] listed below for calculating Available Transfer Capability (ATC) or Available Flowgate Capability (AFC) for each ATC Path per time period identified in R2 for those Facilities within its Transmission operating area: [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
- The Area Interchange Methodology, as described in MOD-028
- The Rated System Path Methodology, as described in MOD-029
- The Flowgate Methodology, as described in MOD-030
Describe, in narrative form, how you meet compliance with this requirement:
(Registered Entity Response Required)
Question: Identify the ATC methodology(s)used for calculating ATC or AFC for ATC Paths, per time period identified in R2, for those Facilities within your Transmission operating area.
(Registered Entity Response Required)
R1 Supporting Evidence and Documentation
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
Provide the following:Document Title and/or File Name, Page & Section, Date & Version
Title / Date / Version
Audit Team: Additional Evidence Reviewed:
This section must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority.
Compliance Assessment Approach Specific to MOD-001-1a R1
___ Verify the TOP selected one of the methodologies listed in R1 calculating ATC or AFC for each ATC Path per time period identified in R2 for those Facilities within its Transmission operating area;
The Area Interchange Methodology, as described in MOD-028,
The Rated System Path Methodology, as described in MOD-029,
The Flowgate Methodology, as described in MOD-030.
Detailed notes:
R2.Each Transmission Service Provider shall calculate ATC or AFC values as listed below using the methodology or methodologies selected by its Transmission Operator(s): [Violation Risk Factor: Lower [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
R2.1 Hourly values for at least the next 48 hours.
R2.2 Daily values for at least the next 31 calendar days.
R2.3 Monthly values for at least the next 12 months (months 2-13).
Describe, in narrative form, how you meet compliance with this requirement:
(Registered Entity Response Required)
R2 Supporting Evidence and Documentation
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
Provide the following:Document Title and/or File Name, Page & Section, Date & Version
Title / Date / Version
Audit Team: Additional Evidence Reviewed:
This section must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority.
Compliance Assessment Approach Specific to MOD-001-1a R2
____Verify the TSP calculated ATC or AFC values as listed below using the methodology or methodologies selected by its TOP(s):
____ Hourly values for at least the next 48 hours
____ Daily values for at least the next 31 calendar days
____ Monthly values for at least the next 12 months (months 2-13)
Detailed notes:
R3.Each Transmission Service Provider shall prepare and keep current an Available Transfer Capability Implementation Document (ATCID) that includes, at a minimum, the following information: [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
R1.
R2.
R3.
R3.1.Information describing how the selected methodology (or methodologies) has been implemented, in such detail that, given the same information used by the Transmission Service Provider, the results of the ATC or AFC calculations can be validated.
R3.2.A description of the manner in which the Transmission Service Provider will account for counterflows including:
3.2.1.How confirmed Transmission reservations, expected Interchange and internal counterflow are addressed in firm and non-firm ATC or AFC calculations.
3.2.2.A rationale for that accounting specified in R3.2.
R3.3.The identity of the Transmission Operators and Transmission Service Providers from which the Transmission Service Provider receives data for use in calculating ATC or AFC.
R3.4.The identity of the Transmission Service Providers and Transmission Operators to which it provides data for use in calculating transfer or Flowgate capability.
R3.5.A description of the allocation processes listed below that are applicable to the Transmission Service Provider:
- Processes used to allocate transfer or Flowgate capability among multiple lines or sub-paths within a larger ATC Path or Flowgate.
- Processes used to allocate transfer or Flowgate capabilities among multiple owners or users of an ATC Path or Flowgate.
- Processes used to allocate transfer or Flowgate capabilities between Transmission Service Providers to address issues such as forward looking congestion management and seams coordination.
- A description of how generation and transmission outages are considered in transfer or Flowgate capability calculations, including:
3.6.1.The criteria used to determine when an outage that is in effect part of a day impacts a daily calculation.
3.6.2.The criteria used to determine when an outage that is in effect part of a month impacts a monthly calculation.
3.6.3.How outages from other Transmission Service Providers that cannot be mapped to the Transmission model used to calculate transfer or Flowgate capability are addressed.
Describe, in narrative form, how you meet compliance with this requirement:
(Registered Entity Response Required)
R3 Supporting Evidence and Documentation
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
Provide the following:Document Title and/or File Name, Page & Section, Date & Version
Title / Date / Version
Audit Team: Additional Evidence Reviewed:
This section must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority.
Compliance Assessment Approach Specific to MOD-001-1a R3
____ Verify the TSP prepared and kept current an ATCID that includes, at a minimum, the following information:
____Information describing how the selected methodology (or methodologies) has been implemented, in such detail that, given the same information used by the TSP, the results of the ATC or AFC calculations can be validated.
____A description of the manner in which the TSP will account for counterflows including:
__
____ How confirmed Transmission reservations, expected Interchange and internal counterflow are addressed in firm and non-firm ATC or AFC calculations.
____ A rationale for that accounting specified in R3.2
____ The identity of the TOPs and TSPs from which the TSP receives data for use in calculating ATC or AFC.
____ The identity of the TSPs and TOPs to which it provides data for use in calculating transfer or Flowgate capability.
____ A description of the allocation processes listed below that are applicable to the TSP:
____ Processes used to allocate transfer or Flowgate capability among multiple lines or sub-paths within a larger ATC Path or Flowgate.
____ Processes used to allocate transfer or Flowgate capabilities among multiple owners or users of an ATC Path or Flowgate.
____ Processes used to allocate transfer or Flowgate capabilities between TSPs to address issues such as forward looking congestion management and seams coordination.
____ A description of how generation and transmission outages are considered in transfer or Flowgate capability calculations, including:
____ The criteria used to determine when an outage that is in effect part of a day impacts a daily calculation.
____ The criteria used to determine when an outage that is in effect part of a month impacts a monthly calculation.
____ How outages from other TSPs that cannot be mapped to the Transmission model used to calculate transfer or Flowgate capability are addressed.
Detailed notes:
R4.The Transmission Service Provider shall notify the following entities before implementing a new or revised ATCID: [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
R4.
R4.1.Each Planning Coordinator associated with the Transmission Service Provider’s area.
R4.2.Each Reliability Coordinator associated with the Transmission Service Provider’s area.
R4.3.Each Transmission Operator associated with the Transmission Service Provider’s area.
R4.4.Each Planning Coordinator adjacent to the Transmission Service Provider’s area.
R4.5.Each Reliability Coordinator adjacent to the Transmission Service Provider’s area.
R4.6.Each Transmission Service Provider whose area is adjacent to the Transmission Service Provider’s area.
Describe, in narrative form, how you meet compliance with this requirement:
(Registered Entity Response Required)
R4 Supporting Evidence and Documentation
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
Provide the following:Document Title and/or File Name, Page & Section, Date & Version
Title / Date / Version
Audit Team: Additional Evidence Reviewed:
This section must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority.
Compliance Assessment Approach Specific to MOD-001-1a R4
____ Verify the TSP notified the following entities before implementing a new or revised ATCID:
____Each Planning Coordinator associated with the TSP’s area
____Each RC associated with the TSP’s area
____ Each TOP associated with the TSP’s area.
____ Each Planning Coordinator adjacent to the TSP’s area.
____ Each RC adjacent to the TSP’s area
____ Each TSP whose area is adjacent to the TSP’s area.
Detailed notes:
R1.
R2.
R3.
R4.
R5.The Transmission Service Provider shall make available the current ATCID to all of the entities specified in R4. [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
Describe, in narrative form, how you meet compliance with this requirement:
(Registered Entity Response Required)
R5 Supporting Evidence and Documentation
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
Provide the following:Document Title and/or File Name, Page & Section, Date & Version
Title / Date / Version
Audit Team: Additional Evidence Reviewed:
This section must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority.
Compliance Assessment Approach Specific to MOD-001-1a R5
___Verify the TSP made available the current ATCID to all of the entities specified in R4.
Detailed notes:
R1.
R2.
R3.
R4.
R5.
R6.When calculating Total Transfer Capability (TTC) or Total Flowgate Capability (TFC) the Transmission Operator shall use assumptions no more limiting than those used in the planning of operations for the corresponding time period studied, providing such planning of operations has been performed for that time period. [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
Describe, in narrative form, how you meet compliance with this requirement:
(Registered Entity Response Required)
R6 Supporting Evidence and Documentation
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
Provide the following:Document Title and/or File Name, Page & Section, Date & Version
Title / Date / Version
Audit Team: Additional Evidence Reviewed:
This section must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority.
Compliance Assessment Approach Specific to MOD-001-1a R6
___Verify that when calculating TTC or TFC, the TOP used assumptions no more limiting than those used in the planning of operations for the corresponding time period studied, providing such planning of operations had been performed for that time period.
Detailed notes:
R1.
R2.
R3.
R4.
R5.
R6.
R7.When calculating ATC or AFC the Transmission Service Provider shall use assumptions no more limiting than those used in the planning of operations for the corresponding time period studied, providing such planning of operations has been performed for that time period. [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
Describe, in narrative form, how you meet compliance with this requirement:
(Registered Entity Response Required)
R7 Supporting Evidence and Documentation
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
Provide the following:Document Title and/or File Name, Page & Section, Date & Version
Title / Date / Version
Audit Team: Additional Evidence Reviewed:
This section must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority.
Compliance Assessment Approach Specific to MOD-001-1a R7
___Verify that when calculating ATC or AFC, the TSP used assumptions no more limiting than those used in the planning of operations for the corresponding time period studied, providing such planning of operations had been performed for that time period.
Detailed notes:
R8.Each Transmission Service Provider that calculates ATC shall recalculate ATC at a minimum on the following frequency, unless none of the calculated values identified in the ATC equation have changed: [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
R5.
R6.
R7.
R8.
R8.1.Hourly values, once per hour. Transmission Service Providers are allowed up to 175 hours per calendar year during which calculations are not required to be performed, despite a change in a calculated value identified in the ATC equation.
R8.2.Daily values, once per day.
R8.3.Monthly values, once per week.
Describe, in narrative form, how you meet compliance with this requirement:
(Registered Entity Response Required)
R8 Supporting Evidence and Documentation
Response: (Registered Entity Response Required)
Provide the following:Document Title and/or File Name, Page & Section, Date & Version
Title / Date / Version
Audit Team: Additional Evidence Reviewed:
This section must be completed by the Compliance Enforcement Authority.
Compliance Assessment Approach Specific to MOD-001-1a R8
____ Verify the TSP that calculates ATC recalculated ATC at a minimum on the following frequency, unless none of the calculated values identified in the ATC equation had changed:
____Hourly values, once per hour,
____Daily values, once per day
____ Monthly values, once per week
Detailed notes:
R9.Within thirty calendar days of receiving a request by any Transmission Service Provider, Planning Coordinator, Reliability Coordinator, or Transmission Operator for data from the list below solely for use in the requestor’s ATC or AFC calculations, each Transmission Service Provider receiving said request shall begin to make the requested data available to the requestor, subject to the conditions specified in R9.1 and R9.2: [Violation Risk Factor: Lower] [Time Horizon: Operations Planning]
- Expected generation and Transmission outages, additions, and retirements.
- Load forecasts.
- Unit commitments and order of dispatch, to include all designated network resources and other resources that are committed or have the legal obligation to run, as they are expected to run, in one of the following formats chosen by the data provider:
Dispatch Order
Participation Factors
Block Dispatch
- Aggregated firm capacity set-aside for Network Integration Transmission Service and aggregated non-firm capacity set aside for Network Integration Transmission Service (i.e. Secondary Service).
- Firm and non-firm Transmission reservations.
- Aggregated capacity set-aside for Grandfathered obligations
- Firm roll-over rights.
- Any firm and non-firm adjustments applied by the Transmission Service Provider to reflect parallel path impacts.
- Power flow models and underlying assumptions.
- Contingencies, provided in one or more of the following formats:
A list of Elements