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NERC and ESISAC Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center

CIPC Confidentiality: Public Release. NERC and ESISAC Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Update March 2006. Topics. Self Regulating Organization NERC Organization Bulk Electric System Situational Awareness Communications

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NERC and ESISAC Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center

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  1. CIPC Confidentiality: Public Release NERCandESISACElectricity SectorInformation Sharing and Analysis Center Update March 2006

  2. Topics • Self Regulating Organization • NERC Organization • Bulk Electric System Situational Awareness • Communications • Communications – Electric Power Interdependencies

  3. Self Regulating Organization – 1 • Concept for the Electric Reliability Organization • Self regulating • Audited by FERC and Canadian Authorities • Standards, compliance, enforcement • Stakeholder relationships • Technical excellence • Continuous reliability improvement • Performance monitoring

  4. Self Regulating Organization – 2 • ERO application filing to FERC and Canadian Authorities: 04 April 2006 • Conditional acceptance: date tbd • Formal ERO: January 2007 • There are currently 104 Standards

  5. NERC Organization - 1 • Programmatic • Standards • Compliance and Organization Certification • Reliability Readiness • Education and Operator Certification • Reliability Assessment and Performance Analysis • Situational Awareness and Infrastructure Security

  6. NERC Organization - 2 • Functions • Members’ Forums • Information Technology • Legal and Regulatory • Human Resources • Finances and Accounting

  7. NERC Organization - 3 • Focus on programs; committees support programs • Technical expertise of industry; industry sets the rules • Committees and Forums are portals Stakeholders ERO • Program committees: SAC, CCC, CIPC, + • General committees: OC, PC • Alignment of committees with programs is a task ahead

  8. Situational Awareness – 1 • OF: Bulk Electric System (BES) • BY: Operators, Government, ESISAC • FOR: An event of any causation that is • Expected • Occurring • Under restoration • Under study • TO: Help facilitate fast, appropriate actions by each entity as called for by its roles (Note: This does not directly involve the operational analysis currently performed by operations.)

  9. Situational Awareness – 2 • Frequency and ACE monitoring and alarms • Reports: RCIS, CIPIS, telephone, email • CNN • EPACT 2005, Section 1839: Proposed Transmission Monitoring System • DOE – FERC – NERC • Phasor Measurement Unit project • North America Electric Infrastructure SECurity (NESEC) System and NESEC +

  10. Communications – 1 • Cyber Storm • Exercise in brief: objectives, participants (anonymized), actions • Lessons learned • Refer to agenda materials • Communications must be focused to recipients and succinct, avoiding repetition while assuring requisite information dissemination • “Push” alerts and communications • Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) (and mdl) • Electricity Sector Threat Alert Levels (Physical and Cyber) change process needs review

  11. Communications – 2 • Requests For Information (RFI) • Use ESISAC as point of contact; minimize operator burdens • Formalize (e.g. for hurricanes); use HSIN • Communications between IC and CI (NIAC study group) • Use established relationships (at least organizationally) • Provide sector subject matter expertise

  12. Communications – 3 • Critical infrastructure Warning Information Network (CWIN) • Status, train, test, use • US-CERT ES Portal • ISERnet: DOE Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration

  13. Telecommunications – Electric Power Interdependencies • National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) task force • Near-term report: emergency responders, fuel supplies, emergency coordination, information sharing • Long-term report: detail consideration of impacts of a long-term outage, dependencies, inter-dependencies • Electricity Sector dependence on communications providers: study, who? TY

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