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Answer each one before you open the explanation. On the exam there's no explanation, and you have about 77 seconds a question on RC and BT, 90 on TO and BI.
Under IRO-014-3, at what point must a Reliability Coordinator notify other impacted Reliability Coordinators of an Emergency?
- A. Upon identifying an expected or actual Emergency in its Area
- B. Once Load shedding has begun somewhere in its Area
- C. After its Transmission Operators have exhausted their own procedures
- D. When its Regional Entity confirms that an Emergency exists
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Answer A Upon identifying an expected or actual Emergency in its Area
IRO-014-3 R3 is triggered on identification of an expected or an actual Emergency in the Reliability Coordinator Area, so the notification does not wait for Load shedding, for the Transmission Operators to run out of options, or for anyone else's confirmation. Covering the expected case is what makes the requirement useful ahead of an IROL problem.
Reference: IRO-014-3 R3
FAC-011-4 requires a Reliability Coordinator's System Operating Limit (SOL) methodology to address IROLs in which way?
- A. It lists each IROL in the Reliability Coordinator Area by Facility name and value
- B. It describes how SOLs qualifying as IROLs are identified, and their Tv criteria
- C. It caps the number of IROLs that may be declared in any operating day
- D. It states how often each IROL is recalculated during the operating day
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Answer B It describes how SOLs qualifying as IROLs are identified, and their Tv criteria
FAC-011-4 R8 requires the SOL methodology to include a description of how to identify the subset of SOLs that qualify as IROLs, together with criteria for determining when exceeding a SOL qualifies as exceeding an IROL and criteria for developing any associated IROL Tv. The methodology sets out the method; it is not a running list of limit values.
Reference: FAC-011-4 R8
