Technical Screening Process Clause Samples
The Technical Screening Process clause outlines the procedures and criteria for evaluating the technical qualifications or capabilities of a party, product, or service before further engagement or approval. Typically, this involves a set of predefined standards, tests, or assessments that must be met, such as compliance with industry regulations, demonstration of technical skills, or successful completion of pilot projects. By establishing a clear and objective method for technical evaluation, this clause helps ensure that only qualified candidates or solutions proceed, thereby reducing the risk of project failure or substandard performance.
Technical Screening Process. The technical screening process for identifying Contingent Facilities is comprised of the following steps:
(i) Step 1, Identify Potential Contingent Facilities. Transmission Provider will review all applicable Interconnection Study results for higher queued Interconnection Requests to identify any unbuilt Interconnection Facilities and/or Network Upgrades as potential Contingent Facilities to be evaluated pursuant to Steps 2-5 below.
(ii) Step 2, Remove a Potential Contingent Facility and Perform Applicable Contingency Analyses. Transmission Provider will take a potential Contingent Facility out of service in its study model and:
(a) perform steady state, short circuit, voltage stability, and/or transient stability analyses to determine if the Transmission System demonstrates acceptable pre- and post-contingency system performance, in accordance with current Transmission Provider, WECC, NERC, or Reliability Coordinator criteria or standards; and
(b) document the resulting Transmission System performance deficiencies following the analysis in Step 2(a).
(iii) Step 3, Add the Proposed Generating Facility into Model and Rerun Contingency Analyses. Transmission Provider will add the proposed Generating Facility into the model after taking the potential Contingent Facility out of service as provided in Step 2 above, and:
(a) perform the same analysis for the added proposed Generating Facility as the analysis outlined in Step 2(a) for the removed potential Contingent Facility; and (b) document the resulting Transmission System performance deficiencies following the analysis in Step 3(a).
(iv) Step 4, Apply Threshold and Categorize. If the Transmission System performance deficiencies observed in Step 3(b) are: (a) exacerbated by one percent (1%) or greater than the Transmission System performance deficiencies initially observed in Step 2(b), then the potential Contingent Facility that is individually evaluated in Step 2 will be deemed a Contingent Facility; or (b) exacerbated by less than one percent (1%) than the Transmission System performance deficiencies initially observed in Step 2(b) so long as the impact allows all equipment to remain below equipment rating, then the potential Contingent Facility that is individually evaluated in Step 2 will not be deemed a Contingent Facility.
(v) Step 5, Repeat for Each Identified Potential Contingent Facility. Transmission Provider will repeat Steps 2-4 for each potential Contingent Facility identified in Step 1.
Technical Screening Process. The technical screening process for identifying Contingent Facilities is comprised of the following steps:
(i) Identify Potential Contingent Facilities. Transmission Provider will review all applicable Interconnection Study results for higher queued Interconnection Requests to identify any unbuilt Interconnection Facilities and/or Network Upgrades as potential Contingent Facilities to be evaluated pursuant to Steps 2-5 below.
(ii) Remove a Potential Contingent Facility and Perform Applicable Contingency Analyses. Transmission Provider will take a potential Contingent Facility out of service in its study model and: (a) perform steady state, short circuit, voltage stability, and/or transient stability analyses to determine if the Transmission System demonstrates acceptable pre- and post-contingency system performance, in accordance with current Transmission Provider, WECC, NERC, or Reliability Coordinator criteria or standards; and (b) document the resulting Transmission System performance deficiencies following the analysis in Step 2(a).
Technical Screening Process. The technical screening process for identifying Contingent Facilities is comprised of the following steps: