| (i) operational plans for responding to a cold or hot
weather emergency, distinct from the weather preparations required
under §25.55 of this title (relating to Weather Emergency Preparedness);
and
(ii) a checklist for transmission or distribution facility
personnel to use during cold or hot weather emergency response that
includes lessons learned from past weather emergencies to ensure necessary
supplies and personnel are available through the weather emergency;
(B) A load shed annex that must include:
(i) procedures for controlled shedding of load;
(ii) priorities for restoring shed load to service;
and
(iii) a procedure for maintaining an accurate registry
of critical load customers, as defined under 16 TAC §25.5(22)
of this title (relating to Definitions), §25.52(c)(1) and (2)
of this title (relating to Reliability and Continuity of Service)
and §25.497 of this title (relating to Critical Load Industrial
Customers, Critical Load Public Safety Customers, Critical Care Residential
Customers, and Chronic Condition Residential Customers), and TWC §13.1396
(relating to Coordination of Emergency Operations), directly served,
if maintained by the entity. The registry must be updated as necessary
but, at a minimum, annually. The procedure must include the processes
for providing assistance to critical load customers in the event of
an unplanned outage, for communicating with critical load customers
during an emergency, coordinating with government and service agencies
as necessary during an emergency, and for training staff with respect
to serving critical load customers;
(C) A pandemic and epidemic annex;
(D) A wildfire annex;
(E) A hurricane annex that includes evacuation and
re-entry procedures if facilities are located within a hurricane evacuation
zone, as defined by the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM);
(F) A cyber security annex;
(G) A physical security incident annex;
(H) A transmission and distribution utility that leases
or operates facilities under PURA §39.918(b)(1) or procures,
owns, and operates facilities under PURA §39.918(b)(2) must include
an annex that details its plan for the use of those facilities; and
(I) Any additional annexes as needed or appropriate
to the entity's particular circumstances.
(2) An electric cooperative, an electric utility, or
a municipally owned utility that operate a generation resource in
Texas; and a PGC must include the following annexes for its generation
resources other than generation resources authorized under PURA §39.918:
(A) A weather emergency annex that includes:
(i) operational plans for responding to a cold or hot
weather emergency, distinct from the weather preparations required
under §25.55 of this title;
(ii) verification of the adequacy and operability of
fuel switching equipment, if installed; and
(iii) a checklist for generation resource personnel
to use during a cold or hot weather emergency response that includes
lessons learned from past weather emergencies to ensure necessary
supplies and personnel are available through the weather emergency;
(B) A water shortage annex that addresses supply shortages
of water used in the generation of electricity;
(C) A restoration of service annex that identifies
plans intended to restore to service a generation resource that failed
to start or that tripped offline due to a hazard or threat;
(D) A pandemic and epidemic annex;
(E) A hurricane annex that includes evacuation and
re-entry procedures if facilities are located within a hurricane evacuation
zone, as defined by TDEM;
(F) A cyber security annex;
(G) A physical security incident annex; and
(H) Any additional annexes as needed or appropriate
to the entity's particular circumstances.
(3) A REP must include in its EOP the following annexes:
(A) A pandemic and epidemic annex;
(B) A hurricane annex that includes evacuation and
re-entry procedures if facilities are located within a hurricane evacuation
zone, as defined by TDEM;
(C) A cyber security annex;
(D) A physical security incident annex; and
(E) Any additional annexes as needed or appropriate
to the entity's particular circumstances.
(4) ERCOT must include the following annexes:
(A) A pandemic and epidemic annex;
(B) A weather emergency annex that addresses ERCOT's
plans to ensure continuous market and grid management operations during
weather emergencies, such as tornadoes, wildfires, extreme cold weather,
extreme hot weather, and flooding;
(C) A hurricane annex that includes evacuation and
re-entry procedures if facilities are located within a hurricane evacuation
zone, as defined by TDEM;
(D) A cyber security annex;
(E) A physical security incident annex; and
(F) Any additional annexes as needed or appropriate
to ERCOT's particular circumstances.
(f) Drills. An entity must conduct or participate in
at least one drill each calendar year to test its EOP. Following an
annual drill the entity must assess the effectiveness of its emergency
response and revise its EOP as needed. If the entity operates in a
hurricane evacuation zone as defined by TDEM, at least one of the
annual drills must include a test of its hurricane annex. An entity
conducting an annual drill must, at least 30 days prior to the date
of at least one drill each calendar year, notify commission staff,
using the method and form prescribed by commission staff on the commission's
website, and the appropriate TDEM District Coordinators, by email
or other written form, of the date, time, and location of the drill.
An entity that has activated its EOP in response to an emergency is
not required, under this subsection, to conduct or participate in
a drill in the calendar year in which the EOP was activated.
(g) Reporting requirements. Upon request by commission
staff during an activation of the State Operations Center by TDEM,
an affected entity must provide updates on the status of operations,
outages, and restoration efforts. Updates must continue until all
incident-related outages of customers able to take service are restored
or unless otherwise notified by commission staff. After an emergency,
commission staff may require an affected entity to provide an after
action or lessons learned report and file it with the commission by
a date specified by commission staff.
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