BAL-002

Question 1

What is the purpose of BAL-002?

Answer 1

Ensure the Balancing Authority or Reserve Sharing Group balances resources and demand. Returns its ACE to defined values following a Reportable Balancing Contingency Event.

Question 2

Who does BAL-002 apply to?

Answer 2

Balancing Authorities and Reserve Sharing Groups

Question 3

BAL-002 requires each Balancing Authority or Reserve Sharing Group to:

Answer 3

Develop and implement an Operating Process as part of its Operating plan
AND
Determine its Most Severe Single Contingency

Question 4

Responsible Entity must have available Contingency Reserve ___ the MSCC for maintaining reliability.

Answer 4

equal to or greater than

Question 5

The Operating Process is required to be reviewed and maintained ___.

Answer 5

annually

Question 6

NERC requires a Balancing Authority or Reserve Sharing Group experiencing a Reportable Event return their ACE to acceptable parameters within ___ period.

Answer 6

15 minute

Question 7

What is the time limit for a Contingency Event Recovery Period?

Answer 7

15 minutes

Question 8

If the Responsible Entity’s ACE was positive prior to a contingency event, the ACE must only be returned to ___ within the 15 minute recovery period.

Answer 8

zero

Question 9

If the Responsible Entity’s ACE was negative prior to a contingency event, the ACE must only be returned to ___ within the 15 minute recovery period.

Answer 9

the that initial value

Question 10

Each Balancing Authority or Reserve Sharing Group is required to have Contingency Reserve equal to or greater than the ___.

Answer 10

Most Severe Single Contingency (MSSC)

Question 11

If a subsequent event occurs during the 15 minute recovery period, the required ACE recovery is ___.

Answer 11

reduced by the MW loss amount of the subsequent event

Question 12

Reportable Balancing Contingency Event

Answer 12

Event occurring within a one minute interval of an initial sudden decline in ACE that results in a loss of MW output less than or equal to 80% of the MSSC.

Question 13

Each Interconnection has its own minimum amount of MW loss that counts as a reportable event. The Eastern Interconnect has ___, ERCOT has ___, and both Western and Quebec Interconnect have ___.

Answer 13

900MW
800MW
500MW

Question 14

Multiple Balancing Contingency Events occurring within ___ of each other count as a single contingency.

Answer 14

one minute

Question 15

If the combined loss of 2 Balancing Contingency Events occurring within ___ of each other falls within the ___ of the MSSC, the ___ Event Recovery Period applies to the event.

Answer 15

one minute
80-100%
15 minute

Question 16

Exceptions to 15 minute recovery time period involve ___ situations.

Answer 16

Energy Emergency Alert

Question 17

Responsible Entity must complete NERC ___ for each Reportable Event which calculates the percent recovery for that event.

Answer 17

CR Form 1

Question 18

The minimum compliance for NERC Disturbance Control Standard (DCS) is?

Answer 18

100% of all reportable disturbances

Question 19

What are Operating Reserves?

Answer 19

Capability above firm system demand that provides for regulation, load forecasting error, and equipment forced outages.

Question 20

Operating Reserves consist of ___ Reserve and ___ Reserve.

Answer 20

Operating
Contingency

Question 21

What is Regulating Reserve?

Answer 21

Reserve Capacity responsive to Automatic Generation Control (AGC) and provides adequate margin of regulation for maintaining ACE. Must be spinning reserves.

Question 22

What are Contingency Reserves?

Answer 22

Additional capacity used during abnormal system conditions for responding to loss of generation contingencies.

Question 23

What are spinning reserves?

Answer 23

Unloaded generation synchronized to the system and fully available to serve additional demand

Question 24

Contingency Reserves can be ___ reserve, ___, and ___.

Answer 24

spinning, quick start generation, controllable load