WorksheetsResource Availability and Conservative Ops
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which of the following is not a way that extremely COLD weather impacts generation?
Intakes, fans, and other equipment freezes
Units have startup issues
Fuel is unavailable
Load is unpredictable
A cold weather alert signals that forecasts anticipate extreme weather that could impact the grid's (a) . Hint: starts with r
A cold weather alert is issued when the average daily system or regional daily surface temperature is at least how many degrees below normal?
5
8
10
12
What signals that member utilities should implement resource preparations, ensure resource commitment startup and run times, and report fuel shortages and transmission outages that might impact normal operations?
Resource Alert
Public Appeal
Energy Emergency Alert
Cold Weather Alert
True or False: When SPP issues a Resource Alert, recipients are told conditions as well as the estimated duration of the condition.
When a Resource Alert is issued, it contains:
Forecasted severe weather conditions
Significant outage conditions
Wind forecast uncertainty
All are true during a Resource Alert
Load forecast uncertainty
When a Resource Alert is issued, stakeholders are expected to do the following:
Report Fuel Shortages and/or _____
Transmission Outages
Update Resource Offer parameters and ___ to reflect changes, including Emergency Limits and de-rates
CROW
Implement needed ___
Resource Preparations
Ensure ___ are current (including startup and runtimes)
Resource Plans
Restrict ___
Maintenance
SPP issues this periodically when weather, environmental, operational or other events prompt us to operate the system conservatively to avoid an emergency.
(a)
Select all triggers of Conservative Operations.
Snowstorm
Wildfire
Cyber attack
Terrorist attack
Cold Front
True or False: Outage coordination often involves SPP canceling or postponing maintenance of critical transmission/generator facilities.
True or False: SPP BA pre-emptive measures do not address changes to Operating Reserve (OR) capacity during a resource alert.
The need to operate the SPP BA area more conservatively in order to avoid an emergency
Conservative Operations
When severe weather conditions, significant outages, wind forecast uncertainty, and/or load forecast uncertainty are anticipated and expected to persist for an extended period of time
Resource Alert
Signals that forecasts anticipate extreme weather that could impact grid reliability.
Cold Weather Alert
Reorder the following grid conditions from LEAST to GREATEST impact.
Normal Operations
Resource Advisory
Conservative Operations Advisory
Energy Emergency Alert
Restoration Event
