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FERC RIN: 1902-AE68 Publication ID: Spring 2014 
Title: Transmission Planning Reliability Standards 
Abstract: Under section 215 of the Federal Power Act, the Commission approved Transmission Planning (TPL) Reliability Standard TPL–001–4, submitted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the Commission-certified Electric Reliability Organization. Reliability Standard TPL–001–4 introduces significant revisions and improvements by requiring annual assessments addressing near-term and long-term planning horizons for steady state, short circuit, and stability conditions. Reliability Standard TPL–001–4 also includes a provision that allows a transmission planner to plan for nonconsequential load loss following a single contingency by providing a blend of specific quantitative and qualitative parameters for the permissible use of planned nonconsequential load loss to address bulk electric system performance issues, including firm limitations on the maximum amount of load that an entity may plan to shed, safeguards to ensure against inconsistent results and arbitrary determinations that allow for the planned non-consequential load loss, and a more specifically defined, open and transparent, verifiable, and enforceable stakeholder process. The Commission found in the Final Rule that the proposed Reliability Standard is just, reasonable, not unduly discriminatory or preferential, and in the public interest. In addition, the Commission directed NERC to modify Reliability Standard TPL–001–4 to address the concern that the standard could exclude planned maintenance outages of significant facilities from future planning assessments and directs NERC to change the TPL–001–4, Requirement R1 Violation Risk Factor from medium to high (Docket Nos. RM12-1-000 and RM13-9-000). 
Agency: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission(FERC)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Completed Actions 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 18 CFR 40   
Legal Authority: 16 USC 824o   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  05/07/2012  77 FR 26714   
NPRM Comment Period End  07/06/2012 
Comment Period Extended  07/20/2012 
Supplemental NPRM  05/23/2013  78 FR 30804   
Final Rule, Order No. 786  10/23/2013  78 FR 63036   
Final Rule Effective  12/23/2013 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Robert Stroh
Legal Information, Office of the General Counsel
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426
Phone:202 502-8473
Email: robert.stroh@ferc.gov

Eugene Blick
Technical Information, Office of Electric Reliability
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426
Phone:202 502-8803
Email: eugene.blick@ferc.gov