ReliabilityFirst

Technical Talk with RF
2023-01-23 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual (Webex)
Agenda Topics:
The ReliabilityFirst 2023-2027 Strategic Plan and 2023 Kickoff
Jeff Craigo – Senior Vice President, Reliability and Risk
Diane Holder – Vice President, Entity Engagement and Corporate Services

RF proudly presents our new five-year strategic plan including our strategies for addressing the biggest risks facing our footprint. Jeff and Diane will introduce the plan, plus share their aspirations for a reliable, resilient and secure 2023.
After Jeff presents the Strategic Plan, Diane will introduce herself and provide further detail around the State Outreach portion of the plan including:

Background on how it began to surface as a key area of focus for RF
The State Outreach Roadmap and plans for 2023
Our top Reliability concerns regarding some of the policies proposed/enacted

​Resource Assessments Summary
Tim Fryfogle – Principal Engineer, Engineering and System Performance

Tim will share the results of the NERC Winter Reliability Assessment, Long Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA), plus ReliabilityFirst’s Winter and LTRA Assessments.

This presentation is especially relevant for policy makers, state PUCs, Transmission Planners and anyone interested in the challenges facing our footprint from a resource planning perspective as we continue to embark on the great energy transition.

Reference Materials
2023-01-23 Tech Talk
State Outreach Update Tech Talk 1-23-2023
2023-01-23 Winter and Long Term Reliability Assessment Presentation

Technical Talk with RF
2022-12-12 14:00 - 15:30
Agenda Topics:
Inflation Reduction Act
Maria Robinson – Director, Grid Deployment Office, Department of Energy (DOE)

Maria will discuss the Inflation Reduction Act plus Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, highlighting tax credits and investment opportunities impacting the electricity sector including clean energy, expanded transmission and electrification of consumer vehicles. She will discuss opportunities, risks, challenges and opportunities as we envision what the grid may look like in the next couple of years. This presentation is especially relevant for RTOs, Transmission Owner/Operators, Generation Owner/Operators, planners, distribution providers, policy makers and anyone interested in how to get involved with all the exciting changes impacting our industry.

​Enforcement using Align
Max Reisinger – Senior Counsel, Enforcement, ReliabilityFirst

Max will walk through the self-reporting process in Align with an explanation on what RF expects to be submitted within each field. He will describe “What makes a good self-report” and why RF needs the information requested. This presentation is especially relevant for Primary and Alternate Compliance Contacts, any employees that work in Align and SMEs responsible for analyzing and working through potential noncompliances. Max will also describe how detailed self-reports with strong root cause analysis can help entities develop effective mitigation to reduce repeat noncompliances and enhance reliability and security.

Reference Materials:
2022-12-12 Tech Talk
Self Reporting in Align December 12 2022

Technical Talk with RF
2022-11-14 14:00 - 15:30
Agenda Topics:
Align Update
Anthony Jablonski – Manager, Risk Analysis and Mitigation (RAM), RF
This update is especially relevant for Primary Compliance Contacts (PCC) and their alternates who are responsible for using Align and the Secure Evidence Locker.
​Reliability Vignettes
Rich Bauer – Associate Principal Engineer, RAPA/Event Analysis, NERC

NERC has launched Reliability Vignettes, a new product aimed at capturing current operating incidents of interest and projecting the circumstances of the incidents into the future as think pieces for system planning and operating considerations.
The first vignette is live on NERC’s Event Analysis, Reliability Assessment, and Performance Analysis page, where future write-ups will also be posted on an occasional basis as interesting system occurrences are identified.

Facility Ratings Lessons Learned from Walkdowns
Mallory Carlone – Technical Auditor, Operations & Planning, RF

Mallory will be reviewing field walkdowns RF conducted throughout 2022. In addition, she will review ReliabilityFirst’s FAC-008 and FAC-003 walkdown process which will be a focus for 2023 Audit engagements. Topics will include what to expect, preferred SMEs to have on-site, location selections, time frames, lessons learned, etc. We will also discuss details around RF’s Self Certifications regarding how FAC-008 is being scoped and which entities are being targeted for those types of engagements.

This presentation is relevant for Transmission Owners, Primary Compliance Contacts and Field Operations: Vegetation, Substation and Subject Matter Experts dealing with Planning, Data and Modeling. Please forward this invite to planning, data, and modeling engineers, internal control champions and compliance personnel responsible for FAC-008 and FAC-003.​

Reference Materials:
2022-11-14 High Wind Impact – Reliability Vignette
2022-11-14 Tech Talk
FAC-003 and FAC-008 Walk Downs_14Nov2022
