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Railbelt Reliability Council (RRC)
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Working Groups

Standard Developments

One of the primary purposes of the RRC is to develop and enforce standards that apply to the entire Railbelt region. Members of the technical advisory council and additional subject matter experts use their knowledge of the unique challenges of the islanded Railbelt grid as well as stakeholder input to create specialized reliability, operating, security, and other standards for the grid. The below listed working groups are actively meeting to develop standards.

Batch 1 Reliability Standards Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing a batch of four Reliability Standards: RRC-BAL-003, RRC-BAL-004, RRC-BAL-006, and RRC-INT-006.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

Batch 2 Reliability Standards Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing a batch of two Reliability Standards: RRC-VAR-001 and RRC-VAR-002.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

Batch 3 Reliability Standards Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing one Reliability Standard: RRC-BAL-005.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

Batch 4 Reliability Standards Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing one Reliability Standard: RRC-Reliability Coordinator-001.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

RRC-TPL-001 Working Group

This Technical Advisory Council Working Group is developing the following standard: RRC-TPL-001: Transmission System Performance Requirements

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

CIP Standards Working Group

RRC TAC Working Group dedicated to developing Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Standards

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

VRF/VSL Tables Working Group

RRC TAC Working Group dedicated to developing violation risk factors (VRFs) and violation severity levels (VSLs) for each requirement in each standard.

  1. Meeting Materials

Current Members

  1. David Burlingame

    Manager

    Chief Technical Officer

  2. David Hilt

    Founder, Grid Reliability Consulting, LLC

  3. Haider Naveed

    Senior NERC Compliance Specialist, Electric Power Engineers

  4. Todd Ponto

    Director of OT and NERC Compliance, ScottMadden

Rule Developments

Creating or modifying new Rules requires a public process you are encouraged to engage in. Public members can join meetings for any Rule developments that are in progress or submit comments related to any Rules. The below listed working groups are actively meeting to develop/modify Rules.

ER3 and ER4 Review Working Group

This Working Group will review the Documents Retention and Access Rule (ER3 and the Confidential Documents and Access Rule (ER4) and recommend revision to streamline implementation of these rule in support of product development.

  1. Meeting Materials
  2. Notice of Intent to Develop

Current Members

  1. Bayunt Ollek

    Manager

    Chief Administrative Officer

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  2. Daniel Heckman

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

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  3. Matthew Clarkson

    Provider – Integrated – Cooperative

  4. Joel Groves

    Provider – Independent Power Producer

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  5. Natalie Kiley-Bergen

    Consumer – Residential-Small Commercial

  6. Kevin Aufderheide

    State Agency for Regulatory Affairs and Public Advocacy (RAPA)

  7. Juliet Shepherd

    Independent