Blackout 2003 Reliability Recommendations 2005 NPCC General Meeting The Cranwell Resort Lenox, MA September 29, 2005 Philip A. Fedora Director, Market Reliability Interface Northeast Power Coordinating Council
August 14, 2003, starting at 16:05:57 EDT Over 50 million people out of power in northeast US and Ontario, Canada The 2003 Blackout 61,800 MW of load lost Millions of work hours and billions of $ in economic costs Some Local Load Interrupted Areas Affected by the Blackout Service maintained in some area NPCC September 29, 2005 2
NPCC Blackout Investigative Team Determine Critical Sequence of Events Simulation of the events Identification of Lessons Learned from restoration Identify measures to prevent or mitigate similar events NPCC September 29, 2005 3
NERC Steering Group Appointed in late August 2003 NERC Technical Report issued: Actions to Remedy Specific Deficiencies Strategic Initiatives Technical Initiatives Additional Recommendations NPCC September 29, 2005 4
U.S. Canadian Power System Outage Task Force 46 Recommendations in Four groups: Institutional Issues Strengthen NERC s actions of February 10, 2004 Physical and Cyber Security Canadian Nuclear Power Sector http://www.npcc.org/blackout.asp?folder=currentyear NPCC September 29, 2005 5
NPCC Reliability Actions Since the August 2003 Blackout Blackout Investigative Team Assessment of NPCC Restoration Effort Strengthen Regional, Mandatory Reliability Criteria Enhanced NPCC Reliability Compliance Program Revised NPCC Regional Reliability Plan NPCC Readiness Assessments Overall NPCC Transmission Reliability Analysis NPCC Recommendations Tracking NPCC September 29, 2005 6
NPCC Restoration Assessment Details the lessons learned from the August 14 event and contains recommendations to be adopted by the NPCC Areas in the following areas: - Procedures and Training - Operator Authority - Communications - Criteria and Compliance https://www.npcc.org/publicfiles/blackout/lastyear/restoration_of_the_npcc_areas.pdf NPCC September 29, 2005 7
Strengthen NPCC Reliability Criteria Lessons Learned from the Blackout 2003 analyses were incorporated into the following NPCC criteria documents: A-02 Basic Criteria A-03 Emergency Operation A-04 Maintenance Criteria System Protection A-08 Reliability Compliance and Enforcement Program http://www.npcc.org/criteria.asp NPCC September 29, 2005 8
Enhanced Reliability Compliance Program Completed compliance assessments of the implementation of system restoration critical facilities testing requirements and compliance to the NERC Urgent Action Cyber Security Standard. NPCC compliance assessments regarding vegetation related outages indicated 100% compliance in 2004. NPCC and its membership have reported 100% compliance for all components in the NPCC and NERC compliance program for 2004. http://www.nerc.com/~comply/ NPCC September 29, 2005 9
Revised NPCC Regional Reliability Plan Describes the procedures, policies and practices implemented in NPCC to ensure reliable operation Consistent with NERC Version 0 Standards Inclusion of NERC Reliability Functional Model Entities Includes Cyber Security Requirements http://www.npcc.org/publicfiles/documents/npcc_reliability_plan.pdf NPCC September 29, 2005 10
NPCC Readiness Assessments Control Area Readiness Assessments conducted on-site for the IMO (IESO), NYISO and ISO-NE in April and May of 2004 Favorable results for all three Areas NPCC Areas cited in NERC s Example of Excellence All Five NPCC Control Areas have successfully completed the Control Area questionnaires. NPCC September 29, 2005 11
Overall NPCC Regional Transmission Reliability Analysis Comprehensive Regional and Inter- Regional Analysis Scheduled Every Three Years 4-6 Years into Future Includes evaluation of the feasibility and benefits of UVLS NPCC September 29, 2005 12
NPCC Recommendations Tracking Blackout Recommendations Tracking Documents the status of reports and analysis that NPCC has underway in response to its investigations of the power system collapse of August 14, 2003. http://www.npcc.org/blackout.asp?folder=currentyear NPCC Reliability Assessment Program Status Reports Covers all aspects of reliability assurance through individual assessments that utilize NPCC Criteria, Guides and Procedures http://www.npcc.org/nrap.asp?folder=currentyear NPCC September 29, 2005 13
Recent NERC Status Reports Status of August 2003 Blackout Recommendations July 14, 2005 ftp://www.nerc.com/pub/sys/all_updl/docs/blackout/report_to_us- Can_TF_on_Status_of_Blackout_Recommendations- 071405.pdf Implementing the August 14, 2003 Blackout Recommendations -- Status Report August 2, 2004 ftp://www.nerc.com/pub/sys/all_updl/docs/bot/agenda-items- 0805/Item8b.pdf NPCC September 29, 2005 14
NERC Blackout Recommendation Review Task Force NERC Blackout Action Plan: Review various Blackout Recommendations and recommend those additional activities (either new or as follow-on activities) to the original sets of Blackout Recommendations NPCC September 29, 2005 15