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One of the RRC’s primary purposes is to develop and enforce standards across the Railbelt region. Technical Advisory Council members and subject matter experts use their knowledge of the islanded Railbelt grid’s unique challenges—along with stakeholder input—to create specialized reliability, operating, security, and other standards.
These standards are currently being developed by the TAC and has a related working group established.
This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing the RRC Interconnection Process, Reliability Standards: RRC-FAC-001 Facility Interconnection Requirements and RRC-FAC-002 Facility Interconnection Studies, and Interconnection Agreements.
To avoid adverse impacts on the reliability of the Bulk Electric System, Transmission Owners and applicable Generator Owners must document and make Facility interconnection requirements available so that entities seeking to interconnect will have the necessary information.
To study the impact of interconnecting new or changed Facilities on the Bulk Electric System.
This Standard details the resource or load interconnection process for the Railbelt region.
| Standard Name | Standard Description | Status Color | Status | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RRC-BAL-001 | Real Power Balancing Control Performance | Upcoming | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-bal-001-1 | |
| RRC-BAL-002 | Disturbance Control Performance | Upcoming | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-bal-002 | |
| RRC-BAL-003-1 | Frequency Response and Bias | Pending Enforcement | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-bal-003-1 | |
| RRC-BAL-003-1(i) | Frequency Response and Bias | In-Progress | https://portal.laserfiche.com/Portal/Browse.aspx?id=6569&repo=r-1dfd15b0 | |
| RRC-BAL-005-1 | Automatic Generation Control | Board Approved | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-bal-005-1 | |
| RRC-BAL-502 | Planning Resource Adequacy Analysis, Assessment and Documentation | Upcoming | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-bal-502-2 | |
| RRC-CIP-002-1 | BES Cyber System Categorization | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-fac-001-2 | |
| RRC-CIP-003-1 | Security Management Controls | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-003-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-004-1 | Personnel & Training | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-004-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-005-1 | Electronic Security Perimeters | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-005-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-006-1 | Physical Security of BES Cyber Systems | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-006-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-007-1 | System Security Management | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-007-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-008-1 | Incident Reporting and Response Planning | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-008-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-009-1 | Recovery Plans for BES Cyber Systems | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-009-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-010-1 | Configuration Change Management and Vulnerability Assessments | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-010-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-011-1 | Information Protection | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-011-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-012-1 | Communications between Control Centers | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-012-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-013-1 | Supply Chain Risk Management | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-013-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-014-1 | Physical Security | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-014-1 | |
| RRC-CIP-015-1 | Internal Network Security Monitoring | Filed with the RCA | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-015-1 | |
| RRC-FAC-001 | Facility Interconnection Requirements | In-Progress | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-cip-002-1 | |
| RRC-FAC-002 | Facility Interconnection Studies | In-Progress | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-fac-002-2 | |
| RRC-INT-006-1 | Evaluation of Interchange Transactions | Pending Enforceability | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-int-006-1 | |
| RRC-PRC-006 | Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding | Upcoming | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-prc-006 | |
| RRC-RC-001-01 | Reliability Coordinator | Board Approved | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-rc-001-reliability-coordinator | |
| RRC-RES-001 | Reserve Scheduling | Upcoming | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-res-001 | |
| RRC-TPL-001-01 | Transmission System Planning Performance Requirements | Board Approved | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-tpl-001 | |
| RRC-TPL-002-01 | Transmission Planning | Board Approved | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-tpl-002 | |
| RRC-VAR-001-1 | Voltage and Reactive Control | Pending Enforceability | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-var-001-1 | |
| RRC-VAR-002-1 | Generator Operation for Maintaining Network Voltage Schedules | Pending Enforceability | https://www.akrrc.org/matters/rrc-var-002-1 |
In 2018, the Railbelt utilities voluntarily adopted a set of jointly developed reliability standards. While not the RRC’s official standards, these often serve as the foundation for RRC standards development.