* Reduce Misoperations * Analyze Protection Report and recommendations rate Systems misoperations and equipment failures and 3 X X develop performance improvement plans * Improve understanding * Outreach to industry on Outreach and improvement of unknown outages improving "unknown plan 3 X outage" rate * Enhance Report tools and analysis to 3 X assess vulnerabilities * Identify opportunities * Analyze outages and Guidelines or to reduce human events containing a Human recommendations performance-related Performance Cause Code 3 X X outages and develop improvement plans * Improve awareness of * Host a Western Conference physical and cyber Interconnection Security 3 X X security best practices conference Appropriate Sharing * Assess Interconnection * Develop a replacement Assessment of the state of of Operating, System, performance regarding methodology for the key operational practices in and Events Analysis key operational Operational Practices the interconnection 3 X X Information practices Survey * Develop an outreach and Guidelines or education plan to improve recommendations 3 X X Next-Day Study performance
* Reduce Misoperations rate * Analyze Protection Systems misoperations and equipment failures and develop performance improvement plans 3 Report and recommendations X X * Improve understanding of unknown outages * Outreach to industry on improving "unknown outage" rate 3 Outreach and improvement plan X * Enhance tools and analysis to assess vulnerabilities 3 Report X * Identify opportunities to reduce human performance-related outages * Analyze outages and events containing a Human Performance Cause Code and develop improvement plans 3 Guidelines or recommendations X X * Improve awareness of physical and cyber security best practices * Host a Western Interconnection Security conference 3 Conference X X Appropriate Sharing of Operating, System, and Events Analysis Information * Assess Interconnection performance regarding key operational practices * Develop a replacement methodology for the Operational Practices Survey 3 Assessment of the state of key operational practices in the interconnection X X * Develop an outreach and education plan to improve Next-Day Study performance 3 Guidelines or recommendations X X
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