Misoperations Reporting
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) ERO Reliability Assessment and Performance Analysis (ERO-RAPA) group has been reviewing protection and control system misoperations which are associated with a significant percentage of bulk electric system disturbances. Reducing the risk to reliability from relay and control system misoperations requires consistent collection of misoperation information by Regional Entities along with systematic analysis and correction of the underlying causes of preventable misoperations.
With the NERC Special Protection and Control Subcommittee’s technical guidance, the ERO-RAPA Group has agreed upon a set of specifications, including misoperation categories, cause codes and a Regional Entity determined reporting template to use in processes to collect relay and control system misoperations information from registered entities.
According to recommendations by the ERO-RAPA Group, Generation Owners (GO), Transmission Owners (TO), and Distribution Providers (DP) that own transmission protection systems must submit misoperation reports to Texas Reliability Entity, Inc. (Texas RE) according to the following schedule:
| Submission of 1st Quarter Data |
May 31 |
| Submission of 2nd Quarter Data |
August 31 |
| Submission of 3rd Quarter Data |
November 30 |
| Submission of 4th Quarter Data |
February 28 |
A reporting template has been agreed upon by registered entities and Texas RE and is posted below. For registered entities that endured no misoperations during a reporting period, please use the form below, Misoperation Reporting Form, to indicate attestation or to report no misoperations. All reports are to be submitted via WebCDMS 
. Please send questions to compliance@texasre.org .