Common use of Scheduling Protocols Clause in Contracts

Scheduling Protocols. The Parties agree that each Party will leverage technology, where feasible, to perform electronic approvals of schedules and to perform electronic checkouts, in lieu of telephone calls. The Parties agree to follow the following scheduling protocols: Section 10.1.1.1 Each Party, acting as the scheduling agent for their respective Control Areas, will conduct all checkouts with their first tier Control Areas or the scheduling agent acting on behalf of those first-tier Control Areas. A first tier Control Area is any Control Area that is directly connected to any Party’s members’ Control Area. Section 10.1.1.2 The Parties will require all schedules, other than reserve sharing or other emergency events and loss payback schedules, to be tagged via the NERC tagging standard. For reserve sharing and other emergency schedules that are not tagged, the Parties will enter manual schedules after the fact into their respective scheduling systems to facilitate checkout between the Parties. Section 10.1.1.3 When there is a scheduling conflict, the Parties will work in unison to modify the schedule as soon as practical. If there is a scheduling conflict that is identified before the schedule has started, then both Parties will make the correction in real-time and not wait until the quarter hour. If the schedule has already started and one Party identifies an error, then the Parties will make the correction at the earliest quarter hour increment. If a scheduling conflict cannot be resolved between the Parties (but the source and sink have agreed

Scheduling Protocols. The Parties agree that each Party will leverage technology, where feasible, to perform electronic approvals of schedules and to perform electronic checkouts, in lieu of telephone calls. The Parties agree to follow the following scheduling protocols: Section 10.1.1.1 Each Party, acting as the scheduling agent for their respective Control Areas, will conduct all checkouts with their first tier Control Areas or the scheduling agent acting on behalf of those first-tier Control Areas. A first tier Control Area is any Control Area that is directly connected to any Party’s members’ Control Area. Section 10.1.1.2 The Parties will require all schedulesschedules between the Parties, other than reserve sharing or other emergency events and loss payback schedules, to be tagged via the NERC tagging standard. For reserve sharing and other emergency schedules that are not tagged, the Parties will enter manual schedules after the fact into their respective scheduling systems to facilitate checkout between the Parties. Section 10.1.1.3 When there is a scheduling conflict, the Parties will work in unison to modify the schedule as soon as practical. If there is a scheduling conflict that is identified before the schedule has started, then both Parties will make the correction in real-time and not wait until the quarter hour. If the schedule has already started and one Party identifies an error, then the Parties will make the correction at the earliest quarter hour increment. If a scheduling conflict cannot be resolved between the Parties (but the source and sink have agreedagreed to a MW value), then the Parties will both adjust their numbers to that same MW value. If source and sink are unable to agree to a MW value, then the previously tagged value will stand for both Parties.