NERC Entity Registration

For compliance with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and regional reliability standards to be effectively monitored, the entities responsible for meeting the requirements of each standard must be identified. Texas Regional Entity (RE) identifies organizations within its footprint that are responsible for meeting the requirements of the standards.

Registration will not prescribe organizational structures, responsibilities or relationships; it simply will record which organizations are responsible for meeting the requirements of the standards and ensure that all reliability requirements are addressed in the regions and all parts of an interconnection.

NERC Entity Registration in ERCOT Region

All bulk power system owners, operators, and users are required to register with NERC. The process for registration is included in the NERC Rules of Procedure, Appendix 5, found on the Compliance Registry  section of NERC's website.

Each ERCOT entity (transmission service provider, distribution service provider, qualified scheduling entity, resource entity and ERCOT itself) must determine as what functional model it must register with NERC: NERC generation owner (GO), generation operator (GOP), transmission owner (TO), transmission planner (TP) and distribution provider (DP). The NERC functional model determines which NERC reliability standards the entity is required to meet.

NERC's registration criteria are not finalized; refer to the Statement of Compliance Registry Criteria available in Compliance Registry .

Documentation NERC Compliance Entity 2008 Registration List List of NERC-registered entities and their functions; refer to NERC reliability standards for requirements these companies are expected to meet (04/18/08, .xls, 113.5 KB) Texas RE-NERC Compliance Registry Functions Registration Dates List of NERC-registered entities and their registration dates (05/22/08, .xls, 53.5 KB) Statement of Compliance Registry Criteria Description of how (1) NERC will identify entities/organizations that may be candidates for NERC registration; (2) Texas RE will submit the entity names and functions; and (3) NERC will assign the entities to the NERC compliance registry (revision 4.0) (02/18/08, .pdf, 101.9 KB) FERC Order on Joint Registration Organization Filing Procedures that permit an organization such as a joint action agency, G&T cooperative or similar organization to accept compliance responsibility on behalf of its members (07/31/07, .pdf, 34 KB)

Forms NERC Registration Form - New Entity Form used by an entity to register with NERC in the ERCOT region (05/12/08, .doc, 188 KB) NERC Registration Form - Revisions to Entity's Current Registration Form to submit changes to an entity's existing NERC registration (05/12/08, .doc, 236 KB) NERC Reliability Standards Responsibility Certification - Generator Operator and Generator Owner - Primary Joint Registration Organization Form used by GOP or GO to apply as a primary JRO assuming responsibility for its own function(s) and the function(s) that it has agreed to perform on behalf of one or more of its members or related entities; form includes NERC registration application (05/12/08, .doc, 197 KB) NERC Reliability Standards Responsibility Certification - Generator Operator and Generator Owner - Joint Registration Organization Co-Registrants Form used by GOPs and GOs to apply as JRO co-registrants by multiple entities dividing responsibilities for function(s) among all members or related entities per a written agreement; form includes NERC registration application (05/12/08, .doc, 284 KB) NERC Joint Registration Organization Co-Registrants - Generator Operator Mandatory Standards Form used by GOP/GO JRO co-registrants to indicate the JRO registrant or related entity that is assuming responsibility for each mandatory NERC standard; attach to NERC Reliability Standards Responsibility Certification (GOP and GO - JRO Co-Registrants) (05/12/08, .xls, 866.5 KB) NERC Reliability Standards Responsibility Certification - Transmission Operator and Transmission Owner - Joint Registration Organization Co-Registrants Form used by TOPs and TOs to apply as JRO co-registrants by multiple entities dividing responsibilities for function(s) among all members or related entities per a written agreement; form includes NERC registration application (05/12/08, .doc, 283 KB) NERC Joint Registration Organization Co-Registrants - Transmission Operator Mandatory Standards Form used by TOP/TO JRO co-registrants to indicate the JRO registrant or related entity that is assuming responsibility for each mandatory NERC standard; attach to NERC Reliability Standards Responsibility Certification (TOP and TO - JRO Co-Registrants) (05/12/08, .xls, 872.5 KB)