Issues

PRR830

Title	Reactive Power Capability Requirement
Next Group
Next Step
Status	Approved on 11/17/2009
Effective Dates	12/01/2009

Date	Gov Body	Action Taken	Next steps
11/17/2009	BOARD	Approved
11/05/2009	TAC	Recommended for Approval	ERCOT Board for consideration.
10/22/2009	PRS	Recommended for Approval	TAC for conisderation.
09/17/2009	PRS	Deferred/Tabled	PRS for consideration.

Date

Gov Body

Action Taken

Next steps

11/17/2009

BOARD

Approved

11/05/2009

TAC

Recommended for Approval

ERCOT Board for consideration.

10/22/2009

PRS

Recommended for Approval

TAC for conisderation.

09/17/2009

PRS

Deferred/Tabled

PRS for consideration.

Date	Gov Body	Motion	Result
11/17/2009	BOARD	To approve PRR830 as recommended by TAC in the 11/5/09 TAC Recommendation Report and rejected the NextEra Energy Resources appeal.	Passed
11/05/2009	TAC	To recommend approval of PRR830 as recommended by PRS in the 10/22/09 PRS Recommendation Report and as amended by the 10/29/09 ERCOT comments.	Passed
10/22/2009	PRS	To recommend approval of PRR830 as endorsed by ROS.	Passed
09/17/2009	PRS	To table PRR830 for one month and to encourage ROS to provide comments on PRR830.

Date

Gov Body

Motion

Result

11/17/2009

To approve PRR830 as recommended by TAC in the 11/5/09 TAC Recommendation Report and rejected the NextEra Energy Resources appeal.

Passed

11/05/2009

To recommend approval of PRR830 as recommended by PRS in the 10/22/09 PRS Recommendation Report and as amended by the 10/29/09 ERCOT comments.

Passed

10/22/2009

To recommend approval of PRR830 as endorsed by ROS.

Passed

09/17/2009

To table PRR830 for one month and to encourage ROS to provide comments on PRR830.

Status:	Approved
Date Posted:	Sep 8, 2009
Sponsor:	ERCOT
Urgent:	Yes
Sections:	2.1, 2.2, 6.5.7, 6.5.7.1, 6.7.6
Description:	This PRR clarifies the Reactive Power capability requirement for all Generation Resources, including existing WGRs who are not able to meet the 0.95 lead/lag requirement with the Generation Resource’s Unit Reactive Limit (URL). WGRs that commenced operation on or after February 17, 2004, and have a signed Standard Generation Interconnection Agreement (SGIA) on or before November 1, 2009 may met the Reactive Power requirements through a combination of the WGR’s URL and/or automatically switchable static VAR capable devices and/or dynamic VAR capable devices.
Reason:	Clarification of Reactive Power capability requirements on a going-forward basis and path to compliance for certain WGRs that are not able to meet the 0.95 lead/lag requirement at the Point of Interconnection based on Generation Resource’s URL.