Project 2010-02 Connecting New Facilities to the Grid

Status
Board Adopted: August 14, 2014

Filed with FERC: August 22, 2014

Order Effective

Background:
The Standard Processes Manual obligates NERC to conduct periodic reviews on standards that are more than 10 years old and have not yet been revised through other standards development projects. The FAC Five-Year Review Team developed recommendations to revise FAC-001-1 and FAC-002-1; affirm FAC-003-3, FAC-008-3, and FAC-013-2; and delay review of FAC-010-2.1, FAC-011-2, and FAC-014-2. The FAC Five-Year Review Team’s recommendations were approved by the Standards Committee on October 17, 2013. On February 6, 2014, the Board of Trustees adopted the FAC Five-Year Review Team’s recommendations to affirm FAC-003-3, FAC-008-3, and FAC-013-2. WECC separately reviewed and affirmed FAC-501-WECC-1. A letter explaining this affirmation is posted below.

Project 2010-02 – Connecting New Facilities to the Grid was originally proposed in the Reliability Standards Development Plan: 2010-2012 (see pp. 137-138), but work was never initiated. That project was proposed to “ensure that all of the elements that should be addressed when a new facility is connected to the grid are included” in NERC Reliability Standards and to eliminate fill-in-the-blank components in FAC-001 and FAC-002. Project 2010-02 now refers to the standards development effort to revise FAC-001-1 and FAC-002-1.

Purpose/Industry Need:

The Standards Committee assigned six subject matter experts to review the FAC family of Reliability Standards as part of NERC’s obligation to conduct periodic reviews of its Reliability Standards. The Five-Year Review Team determined that FAC-001-1 and FAC-002-1 remain necessary for reliability to ensure that entities establish Facility connection requirements and then conduct assessments using those requirements before integrating new Facilities. Both Reliability Standards, however, require revision to refocus industry effort on those tasks that have a true impact on reliability.

Draft	Action	Dates	Results	Consideration of Comments
Documents for NERC Board of Trustees Review FAC-001-2 Clean \| Redline to Last Approved FAC-002-2 Clean \| Redline to Last Approved Supporting Materials: Standard Authorization Request Implementation Plan Consideration of Issues and Directives Mapping Document VRF/VSL Justifications
FAC-001-2 Clean Redline to Last Posted \| Redline to Last Approved FAC-002-2 Clean Redline to Last Posted \| Redline to Last Approved Implementation Plan Clean \| Redline to Last Posted Standard Authorization Request Supporting Materials: Consideration of Issues and Directives Mapping Document VRF/VSL Justifications	Final Ballots Info>> Vote>>	06/12/14 - 06/23/14	Summary>> Ballot Results FAC-001-2 FAC-002-2
	Draft RSAWs FAC-001-2 FAC-002-2 Please send RSAW feedback to: RSAWfeedback@nerc.net	06/12/14 - 06/25/14	Summary>> Ballot Results FAC-001-2 FAC-002-2
Draft 1 FAC-001-2 Clean \| Redline to FERC Approved FAC-002-2 Clean \| Redline to FERC Approved Implementation Plan Standard Authorization Request Clean \| Redline to Last Posted Supporting Materials: Unofficial Comment Form Consideration of Issues and Directives Mapping Document VRF/VSL Justifications	Ballots and Non-Binding Polls Updated Info>> Info >> Vote >>	05/06/14 - 05/15/14	Summary>> Ballot Results FAC-001-2 FAC-002-2 Non-Binding Poll Results FAC-001-2 FAC-002-2	Consideration of Comments>>
	Comment Period Info >>	04/01/14 - 05/15/14	Comments Received>>
	Join Ballot Pool >>	04/01/14 - 05/01/14	Comments Received>>
SAR to Revise FAC-001 and FAC-002 Clean \| Redline to Last Posted Proposed Redlines of Standards (to supplement SAR) Redline of FAC-001-1 Requirements Redline of FAC-002-1 Requirements Supporting Documents: Unofficial Comment Form (Word)	Informal Comment Period Info>>	12/18/13 - 1/17/14		Consideration of Comments >>
WECC Recommendation to Affirm FAC-501-WECC-01 (Posted June 12, 2014)
Final Recommendations for Revision (Submitted to the Standards Committee for Review) Recommendation to Revise FAC-001-1 Recommendation to Revise FAC-002-1 SAR Clean \|Redline to last posted Redline of FAC-001-1 Requirements (to Supplement SAR) Redline of FAC-002-1 Requirements (to Supplement SAR) Recommendations for Affirmation or Delayed Review (Submitted to the Standards Committee for Review) Recommendation to Affirm FAC-003-3 Recommendation to Affirm FAC-008-3 Recommendation to Affirm FAC-013-2 Recommendation to Delay Review of FAC-010-2.1, FAC-011-2, and FAC-014-2 Supporting Materials: Summary Chart for all FAC Recommendations
Recommendations for Revision Recommendation to Revise FAC-001-1 Recommendation to Revise FAC-002-1 Standard Authorization Request Recommendations for Affirmation or Delayed Review Recommendation to Affirm FAC-003-3 Recommendation to Affirm FAC-008-3 Recommendation to Affirm FAC-013-2 Recommendation to Delay Review of FAC-010-2.1, FAC-011-2, and FAC-014-2 Supporting Materials: Summary Chart for All FAC Recommendations Unofficial Comment Form (Word) for Recommendations for Revision Unofficial Comment Form (Word) for Recommendations for Affirmation or Delayed Review	Comment Period Info>>	08/01/13-09/16/13 (closed)	Comments Received>> FAC-001-1, FAC-002-1) Comments Received>> (FAC-003-3, FAC-008-3, FAC-010-2.1, FAC-011-2, FAC-013-2, FAC-014-2)	Consideration of Comments>> (FAC-001-1, FAC-002-1) Consideration of Comments>> (FAC-003-3, FAC-008-3, FAC-01-=2.1, FAC-011-2, FAC-013-2, FAC-014-2)

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