CHARTER:
Reporting to the MRO Board, the Reliability Assessment Committee (RAC) reviews and consolidates the reports of the overall reliability of the MRO region, both existing and planned. The RAC verifies that assessments performed within the MRO region conform to MRO and NERC Reliability Standards. Areas that the RAC and its sub-groups focus on include: protection and control standards, special protection scheme reviews, resource adequacy, integration of accelerated renewable generation, NERC and regulatory data requests, system modeling, and reviews of regional reliability criteria and procedures.
The Reliability Assessment Committee shall:
- Assess the bulk electric system using the MRO and NERC Reliability Standards and provide assessments to the Board and NERC.
- Annually assess the overall reliability of the MRO region and interregional bulkelectric system plans over a five-year and ten-year horizon.
- Seasonally (summer and winter) assess the overall reliability of the MRO region and interregional bulk electric system from an operational planning perspective.
- Annually (or as often as required by NERC) assess the MRO region for anemerging issue/scenario as determined by NERC and/or MRO Board.
- Perform special reliability assessments on a Regional, Interregional, andInterconnection basis as conditions warrant, or as directed by the Board or
NERC.
- Review system event type analyses on a Regional, Interregional, andInterconnection basis as conditions warrant.
- Annually prepare an MRO set of powerflow and dynamics models as determined by the Model Building Subcommittee. Provide these models to the Eastern Interconnection Reliability Assessment Group (ERAG) and its applicable working groups for use in interconnection-wide model building.
- Perform all Regional Entity responsibilities associated with the Protection andControl Standards, including mis-operations, review of special protection
schemes, UFLS criteria, disturbance monitoring criteria, etc.
- Perform all Regional Entity responsibilities associated with the existing andfuture TPL and MOD Standards, as they apply to Reliability Assessments.
- Participate in and support all MRO Subcommittees, Working Groups and TaskForces that report to the RAC.
- Participate in and support the ERAG Management Committee, SteeringCommittees and Working Groups that reports to the ERAG.
- Participate in and represent the MRO region in all NERC groups, as required that report to the NERC PC and OC.
- Provide regular reports to the MRO Board on matters related to the reliabilityassessments and activities of the RAC and its working groups.
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