SAR-009 ERCOT IROL and SOL Mitigation in the ERCOT Region

Chair(s): Marguerite Wagner
Vice Chair(s): Bill Blevins
Texas Reliability Entity Facilitator: Reliability Standards Manager

The standard was approved by the Texas RE Board on June 28, 2011. Regional Standard IRO-006-TRE-1 is expected to be on NERC's Board Agenda in November.

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The Regional Reliability Standard proposed by this Standard Authorization Request (SAR) will support bulk power system reliability by providing enforceable requirements associated with the existing Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) congestion management procedures.  This proposed Regional Standard addresses the FERC directive in Paragraph 964 of Order 693, where FERC found that the ERCOT transmission load relief procedures were superior to the national standard, and directed the ERO to provide Reliability Standards including Requirements, Measures and Levels of Non-Compliance corresponding to the ERCOT procedures for application in the ERCOT Region.

This SAR proposes a Regional Reliability Standard  that complies with that directive. Five requirements are proposed that describe the obligations of the applicable entities in executing the existing congestion management procedures in the ERCOT Region, which are contained in Section 7 of the ERCOT Protocols (zonal). 

The SAR and a draft version of the standard are posted below.

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