Built-in search capabilities allow users to select a flowgate individually or by security coordinator and transmission provider. Flowgates in a transmission loading relief event or above a user-specified operating security limit can be specified. And, in study mode, a user can enter up to 20 hypothetical transactions and view the potential impacts. FIST will be available by subscription only. NERC is sponsoring a FIST Workshop on May 23, 2001.
Registration is still open.
For further details, see the NERC Operating Manual Preamble and Introduction, Section C, Security Coordinators. In April, NERC published a document for public comment titled Organization Standards Process Manual . Prepared by the Standards Task Force, this document describes a new framework for developing a consensus for approval, revision, reaffirmation, and withdrawal of NERC Operating and Planning Standards. At the same time, NERC formed a new task force to identify a plan and prepare for the transition from the current standards development processes to the new one. Members of the Standards Transition Task Force include the chairmen and vice chairmen of the Operating Committee, Planning Standards Subcommittee, and Market Interface Practices Subcommittee.