such assistance cannot be physically Reliability implemented or would violate safety, Coordinator Area, equipment, regulatory, or statutory when requested and requirements. able, and the requesting entity had implemented its Emergency procedures, and such actions could have been physically implemented and would not have violated safety, equipment, regulatory, or statutory requirements. For the Requirements R8 and R9 VSLs only, the intent of the SDT is to start with the Severe VSL first and then to work your way to the left until you find the situation that fits. In this manner, the VSL will not be discriminatory by size of entity. If a small entity has just one affected reliability entity to inform, the intent is that that situation would be a Severe violation. TOP-001-3 R8. Each Transmission Operator shall inform its The Transmission The Transmission The Transmission The Transmission Reliability Coordinator, known impacted Operator did not Operator did not Operator did not Operator did not Balancing Authorities, and known impacted inform one known inform two known inform three known inform its Reliability Transmission Operators of its actual or impacted impacted impacted Transmission Coordinator of its expected operations that result in, or could Transmission Operator Transmission Operators or more than actual or expected result in, an Emergency. or 5% or less of the Operators or more 10% and less than or operations that known impacted than 5% and less than equal to 15% of the resulted in, or could Transmission or equal to 10% of the known impacted have resulted in, an Operators, whichever known impacted Transmission Emergency on those is greater, of its actual Transmission Operators, whichever respective or expected operations Operators, whichever is greater, of its actual Transmission Operator that resulted in, or is greater, of its actual or expected operations Areas. could have resulted in, or expected operations that resulted in, or OR an Emergency on that resulted in, or could have resulted in, The Transmission respective could have resulted in, an Emergency on Operator did not Transmission Operator an Emergency on respective inform four or more Areas. respective Transmission Operator known impacted Transmission Operator Areas. OR, Transmission Areas.
such assistance cannot be physically implemented or would violate safety, equipment, regulatory, or statutory requirements. Reliability Coordinator Area, when requested and able, and the requesting entity had implemented its Emergency procedures, and such actions could have been physically implemented and would not have violated safety, equipment, regulatory, or statutory requirements. For the Requirements R8 and R9 VSLs only, the intent of the SDT is to start with the Severe VSL first and then to work your way to the left until you find the situation that fits. In this manner, the VSL will not be discriminatory by size of entity. If a small entity has just one affected reliability entity to inform, the intent is that that situation would be a Severe violation. TOP-001-3 R8. Each Transmission Operator shall inform its Reliability Coordinator, known impacted Balancing Authorities, and known impacted Transmission Operators of its actual or expected operations that result in, or could result in, an Emergency. The Transmission Operator did not inform one known impacted Transmission Operator or 5% or less of the known impacted Transmission Operators, whichever is greater, of its actual or expected operations that resulted in, or could have resulted in, an Emergency on respective Transmission Operator Areas. OR, The Transmission Operator did not inform two known impacted Transmission Operators or more than 5% and less than or equal to 10% of the known impacted Transmission Operators, whichever is greater, of its actual or expected operations that resulted in, or could have resulted in, an Emergency on respective Transmission Operator Areas. The Transmission Operator did not inform three known impacted Transmission Operators or more than 10% and less than or equal to 15% of the known impacted Transmission Operators, whichever is greater, of its actual or expected operations that resulted in, or could have resulted in, an Emergency on respective Transmission Operator Areas. The Transmission Operator did not inform its Reliability Coordinator of its actual or expected operations that resulted in, or could have resulted in, an Emergency on those respective Transmission Operator Areas. OR The Transmission Operator did not inform four or more known impacted Transmission
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