2022 System Operator Conference #1

Learning Objectives

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State the primary responsibilities of System Operator to ensure reliability. Relate the impacts to power system operations to recent changes in the Industry.

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3. Explain how the new Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM) platform will facilitate sub-hourly bilateral trading 4. Identify how the SEEM platform utilizes available unreserved transmission 5. Identify how the SEEM platform will affect the Bulk Electric System and the System Operator 6. Identify the most significant challenges faced by California operators during each season 7. Identify the primary tools used to monitor and mitigate operational challenges 8. Identify the strategies used to overcome operational challenges 9. Identify the association of NERC Reliability Standards BAL-001-2, BAL-002-3, BAL-003-2, BAL-005-1, COM-001-3, and COM-002-4 to the operations of the Bulk Electric System 10. Identify the association of NERC Reliability Standards EOP-004-4, EOP-005-3, EOP-006-3, EOP-008-2, EOP-010-1, and EOP-011-1 to the operations of the Bulk Electric System 11. Identify the association of NERC Reliability Standards TOP-001-5, TOP-002-4, TOP-003-4, and VAR-001-5 to the operations of the Bulk Electric System 12. Explain the role outage planning plays in ensuring the reliability of the Bulk Electric System 13. Describe the tools used to determine the validity of an outage schedule 14. Describe the actions required to coordinate outages with other entities and industrial customers 15. Describe and compare the differences of outage planning methodologies during winter, summer and outage seasons 16. Describe the impact of severe weather events on outage planning and discuss actions that are taken to recover 17. Assess and analyze simulated emergency scenarios 18. Implement operator control actions to mitigate undesirable conditions on the simulated power system and return the power system to a reliable state 19. Apply NERC Reliability Standards to RC/TOP/BA responsibilities for each scenario 20. Identify how the operator during the Oldsmar Water Treatment incident identified the threat to their facility and respond to mitigate the attack 21. Identify the security risks to control centers posed by extreme physical events - bomb threats and IEDs 22. Identify prominent physical and cyber security risks to the ERO as reported to the E-ISAC 23. Describe the impacts to the MISO South Region caused by Hurricane Ida 24. Identify how EOP-011 applies to events like Hurricane impacts to the Bulk Electric System 25. Identify the importance of RC to RC coordination during Hurricane events per NERC Standard IRO-014-3 26. Explain what the IDC is and what it does 27. Describe the need for the IDC in operating the power system 28. Identify who the IDC is used by 29. Describe Parallel Flow Visualization and how it changes the IDC

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