| (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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