NPRR354  Revisions to Non-Spin Performance Criteria Language and Provision for ICCP Telemetry of Non-Spin Deployment

This Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) clarifies the performance criteria for Non-Spinning Reserve (Non-Spin) Service deployments, adds language for provision of a Non-Spin deployment flag to Qualified Scheduling Entities (QSEs) via Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol (ICCP), and adds a requirement for Extensible Markup Language (XML) notification to all QSEs when Non-Spin is deployed. Specifically, a clarification for the requirement that a Resource be "released to SCED" is added to Sections 6.5.7.6.2.3 and 8.1.1.4.3 to clarify the expectation of ERCOT that at 25 minutes after receipt of the deployment instruction, the Resource must be participating in Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) at a net MW output at least equal to its Low Sustained Limit (LSL). The requirements for the three Resource types providing Non-Spin have been divided into separate paragraphs, one each for Load, On-Line and Off-Line Generation Resources. In addition, Generation Resources that are providing Non-Spin from Off-Line Generation Resources would be entitled to receive a compliance exemption for documented start-up loading failures. This language is adopted from the zonal Protocols and is included to recognize the difficulty inherent in unit start-up from a cold state for immediate deployment.