Business Practice Revision
BPR
BPR015
Number
Business Practice
Section(s) Requiring
Revision (include Section
BPR
Title
Elevating Transmission Service Priority for NITS
Customers
New Business Practice
No., Title, and Protocol Version)
Impact Analysis
Required
No
(Yes or No)
MMU Report Required
(Yes or No)
Requested Resolution
(Normal or Urgent)
No
Normal
Revision Description
New BP
Reason for Revision
To clarify SPP’s application of NERC Standard EOP-002,
Requirement 9.
Tariff Implications or
Changes (Yes or No; If
yes include a summary No
of impact and/or
specific changes)
Criteria Implications or
Changes (Yes or No; If
yes include a summary No
of impact and/or
specific changes)
Credit Implications
(Yes or No, and
summary of impact)
Name
E-mail Address
Company
Company Address
No
Sponsor
Jimmy Womack
jwomack@spp.org
Southwest Power Pool
415 N. McKinley, Suite 140, Little Rock, AR 72205
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Business Practice Revision
Phone Number
Fax Number
501-614-3244
Proposed Business Practice Language Revision
6
GENERAL INFORMATION
6.1
ELEVATION OF TRANSMISSION SERVICE PRIORITY FOR NITS CUSTOMERS
SPP as the Transmission Service Provider will use this practice in coordination with
NERC Energy Emergency Alerts (EEA) for an entity receiving NITS from SPP.
Business Practice
Requirement 9 of NERC Reliability Standard EOP-002 contains the following language:
When a Transmission Service Provider expects to elevate the transmission service
priority of an Interchange Transaction from Priority 6 (Network Integration
Transmission Service from Non-designated Resources) to Priority 7 (Network
Integration Transmission Service from designated Network Resources) as permitted in its
transmission tariff…
The language of the NERC standard implies that a NITS customer may be allowed to
elevate the transmission service priority of an NN-6 interchange transaction to F-7 during
a declared energy emergency (EEA2 or EEA3). However, the SPP OATT contains NO
provision for elevating transmission service priority from NN-6 to F-7 as contemplated in
EOP-002, Requirement 9. During a declared emergency condition (EEA2 or EEA3), SPP
will not apply this requirement at the request of a NITS customer. NITS customers
seeking F-7 service priority for their interchange transaction(s) during a declared
emergency condition should thus schedule transactions from designated network
resources eligible for F-7 service during such conditions.
Explanation / Rationale
This Business Practice is intended to be general information for SPP customers.
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