Common use of Reliability Committee Clause in Contracts

Reliability Committee. The Reliability Committee shall provide input and advice to ISO and the Participants Committee with respect to the following: (a) Consultation with the Planning Advisory Committee established under the Tariff with respect to the development of a regional system plan; (b) Short-term and long-term load forecasts for use in ISO studies and operations and to meet requirements of regulatory agencies; (c) The collection and exchange of necessary system data and future plans related to reliability for use in ISO planning and to meet requirements of regulatory agencies; (d) Coordination of studies of, and provision of information to Governance Participants on, maintenance schedules for the supply and demand-side resources and Transmission Facilities of the Governance Participants; (e) Based on appropriate studies, the Reliability Standards to assure the reliable operation, and facilitate the efficient operation, of the New England Control Area, the Planning Procedures and those Operating Procedures that guide the implementation of the Reliability Standards; (f) Review of proposed supply and demand-side resource plans and the proposed transmission and interconnection plans of Governance Participants; (g) Applications to ISO pursuant to Section 3.9 of Section I of the Tariff; (h) Procedures for dispatch infrastructure (i.e., voice and data communications protocols, AGC pulsing arrangements, energy management system and system control and data acquisition interfaces, local control center relations, etc.); (i) Reliability considerations of general System operations (i.e., commitment/decommitment, real time dispatch, review and approval of distribution of reserves, etc.); (j) Interconnection procedures and documents related to such procedures; (k) Criteria, guidelines and methodologies to assure consistency in monitoring and assessing conformance of Governance Participants' and regional transmission plans to accepted reliability criteria; (l) To the extent appropriate, conducting and/or reviewing such studies and making such determinations as are assigned to the Reliability Committee pursuant to this Agreement and the Tariff with respect to financial treatment of additions to or upgrades of PTF; (m) Installed Capacity Requirements; (n) Such other matters as the Participants Committee may delegate to the Reliability Committee or for which ISO may seek input and advice; (o) Non-Price Retirement Requests submitted by Capacity Resources pursuant to Section 13.1.2.3.1.5 of Section III of the Tariff; and (p) ISO determinations regarding Capacity Resources submitting de-list bids that were determined to be needed for reliability pursuant to Section 13.2.5.2.5 of Section III of the Tariff, initially through review of the annual as-filed Forward Capacity Market auction results report sections regarding such de-list bids and, subsequent to that review and with respect to any particular de-list bid, at a meeting of the Committee upon a request to the Chair by one or more members of the Committee.

Reliability Committee. The Reliability Committee shall provide input and advice to ISO and the Participants Committee with respect to the following: (a) Consultation with the Planning Advisory Committee established under the Tariff with respect to the development of a regional system plan; (b) Short-term and long-term load forecasts for use in ISO studies and operations and to meet requirements of regulatory agencies; (c) The collection and exchange of necessary system data and future plans related to reliability for use in ISO planning and to meet requirements of regulatory agencies; (d) Coordination of studies of, and provision of information to Governance Participants on, maintenance schedules for the supply and demand-side resources and Transmission Facilities of the Governance Participants; (e) Based on appropriate studies, the Reliability Standards to assure the reliable operation, and facilitate the efficient operation, of the New England Control Area, the Planning Procedures and those Operating Procedures that guide the implementation of the Reliability Standards; (f) Review of proposed supply and demand-side resource plans and the proposed transmission and interconnection plans of Governance Participants; (g) Applications to ISO pursuant to Section 3.9 of Section I of the Tariff; (h) Procedures for dispatch infrastructure (i.e., voice and data communications protocols, AGC pulsing arrangements, energy management system and system control and data acquisition interfaces, local control center relations, etc.); (i) Reliability considerations of general System operations (i.e., commitment/decommitment, real time dispatch, review and approval of distribution of reserves, etc.); (j) Interconnection procedures and documents related to such procedures; (k) Criteria, guidelines and methodologies to assure consistency in monitoring and assessing conformance of Governance Participants' ’ and regional transmission plans to accepted reliability criteria; (l) To the extent appropriate, conducting and/or reviewing such studies and making such determinations as are assigned to the Reliability Committee pursuant to this Agreement and the Tariff with respect to financial treatment of additions to or upgrades of PTF; (m) Installed Capacity Requirements;; and (n) Such other matters as the Participants Committee may delegate to the Reliability Committee or for which ISO may seek input and advice; (o) Non-Price Retirement Requests submitted by Capacity Resources pursuant to Section 13.1.2.3.1.5 of Section III of the Tariff; and (p) ISO determinations regarding Capacity Resources submitting de-list bids that were determined to be needed for reliability pursuant to Section 13.2.5.2.5 of Section III of the Tariff, initially through review of the annual as-filed Forward Capacity Market auction results report sections regarding such de-list bids and, subsequent to that review and with respect to any particular de-list bid, at a meeting of the Committee upon a request to the Chair by one or more members of the Committee.