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WorksheetsSPP Platforms and Processes for Emergency Communication
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 17mins
Which SPP Communication Platform allows RTBM, WEIS, and/or the West RC to send texts, emails, and automated phone calls to TOPs, BAs, GOPs, and MPs?
R-Comm
xMatters
Satellite Phone
Market User Interface
Which SPP Communication Platform allows the SPP RC to send messages to all RCs?
R-Comm
xMatters
RCIS
Market User Interface
Which SPP Communication Platform does the SPP Shift Supervisor use to post information to the public?
OASIS
xMatters
RCIS
Market User Interface
Which SPP Communication Platform is used as an alternative communications means?
OASIS
xMatters
RCIS
Satellite Phone
Which SPP Communication Platform allows the SPP RC or BC communicate with TOPs and BAs?
R-Comm
xMatters
RCIS
Satellite Phone
Which Operating Status Level?
Customer outages greater than exception report criteria and customer restoration times expected greater than 24 hours; System emergency in progress (Specify – capacity, etc.)
Green
Yellow
Amber
Red
Which Operating Status Level?
Anomalies may have occurred affecting electrical system operations; Unusual or unexpected system conditions; Severe weather impacts on electrical system operations
Green
Yellow
Amber
Red
Which Operating Status Level?
Operating criteria are met; System is secure
Green
Yellow
Amber
Red
Which Operating Status Level?
Anomalies probably have occurred in electrical system affecting electrical system operations; Customer interruptions greater than exception report criteria; Voltage reduction or load shedding
Green
Yellow
Amber
Red
What communication platform used in the Western Interconnect interfaces with SPP's R-Comm tool?
Grid Messaging System (GMS)
Request Management System (RMS)
Control Room Operations Window (CROW)
Application Programmable Interface (API)
The energy deficient BA is unable to meet Contingency Reserve requirements
All available non-firm transactions have been curtailed
Firm load interruption is imminent or in progress
Operating Plan has been implemented
All available generation resources are committed to meet firm load, firm transactions, and reserve commitments
Still able to maintain Contingency Reserves requirements but is energy deficient.
When SPP has enough generation to meet demand and available reserves, and it foresees no extreme or abnormal threats to reliability, its Grid Condition is (a) .
Normal Operations
Weather Advisory
Resource Advisory
Conservative Operations Advisory
Restoration Event
When Extreme weather is expected in SPP’s RC area, the Grid Condition is (a) .
Resource Advisory
Conservative Operations Advisory
Restoration Event
Normal Operations
(a) is the Grid Condition declared when weather conditions, significant outages, wind-forecast uncertainty, and load-forecast uncertainty are expected in SPP's balancing authority area.
Conservative Operations Advisory
Restoration Event
Weather Advisory
Normal Operations
When a major or catastrophic grid outage, which could be a total or partial regional blackout, island situation, or system separation occurs, the Grid Condition is (a) .
Conservative Operations Advisory
Weather Advisory
Normal Operations
Resource Advisory
Restoration Event
Where can the public go to view SPP's historical data for advisories and alerts?
OASIS
R-Comm
RCIS
xMatters
SPP holds daily (or more, as needed) Webex discussions with TOPs and TOs for any Grid Condition ___ or more severe.
Resource Advisory
Conservative Operations
EEA 1
If SPP issues a Load Shed instruction, TOPs will be alerted via what SPP Communication Platform?
RMS
MUI
R-Comm
What SPP notification would include the following?
•The hours in which the Emergency ranges of any Resources are expected to be required.
•The hours in which Resources with a Commit Status of Reliability are expected to be committed.
•The hours in which non-firm fixed Export Interchange Transactions are expected to be curtailed.
Maximum Emergency Generation
Forecast Minimum Generation
When energy becomes available and the system can return to pre-emergency condition, how is an EEA downgraded?
The BA requests the RC make the downgrade
The BA downgrades the EEA itself
