About New York State Reliability Council

The New York State Reliability Council, L.L.C. ("NYSRC") is a not-for-profit entity, organized as a Delaware limited liability company, whose mission is to promote and preserve the reliability of electric service on the New York State Power System by developing, maintaining, and, from time-to-time, updating the Reliability Rules which shall be complied with by the New York Independent System Operator ("NYISO") and all entities engaging in electric transmission, ancillary services, energy and power transactions on the New York State Power System. The NYSRC shall carry out its mission with no intent to advantage or disadvantage any Market Participant's commercial interests.

The NYSRC's mission also includes monitoring compliance with the Reliability Rules by working in consultation with the NYISO to assure compliance, including when necessary, seeking compliance through the dispute resolution procedure contained in the ISO/NYSRC Agreement, and taking such other actions which may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the NYSRC Agreement.

The NYSRC is governed by the NYSRC Executive Committee comprised of thirteen (13) members consisting of representatives from the six (6) current Transmission Owners - Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Long Island Power Authority, National Grid, USA, New York State Electric & Gas Corporation/Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation, and the Power Authority of the State of New York; one (1) representative of the Wholesale Sellers sector - Independent Power Producers of New York, Inc.; one (1) representative of the Large Consumers sector - Multiple Intervenors; one (1) representative of the Municipals and Electric Cooperatives sector- New York Municipal Power Agency; and four (4) members not affiliated with any Market Participants.

At its December 7, 2018 meeting, the Executive Committee of the New York State Reliability Council set the New York Control Area (NYCA) Installed Reserve Margin (IRM) requirement for the May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2020 Capability Year at 17%. This decision was based on the NYSRC study, “New York Control Area Installed Capacity Requirement for the Period May 2019 to April 2020.” The study report can be found at NYSRC NYCA ICR Reports.

Latest Rule Postings

Draft Reliability Rules Posted for Review and Comment:

PRR 144 1-24-19
Rule C.3 Outage - Coordination Requirement 4 and Requirement 6
The intent of existing R4 will be incorporated into the  procedures stipulated in existing R6 of this Rule so that facility owners are aware of their obligation to restore maintenance outages expeditiously in the case of an emergency.  Existing R4 will be retired, and subsequent Requirements will be renumbered.
Normal Process Review
Posted on February 12, 2019
Comments are duee on March 29, 2019

Approved New Rules:

RR 140 2-8-18
Reliability Rule Revision to Modify A.1: Establishing NYCA Installed Reserve Margin
Requirements to clarify A.1 requirements and to revise to be consistent with NPCC Directory 1 resource adequacy requirements.
Normal Process Review
Posted on March 19, 2018
Comments were due on May 3, 2018
PRR 140 Establishing NYCA Installed Reserve Margin
Approved by the NYSRC Executive Committee on May 11, 2018
The approved rule will be included in the next revision of the NYSRC Reliability Rules and Compliance Manual

RR 141 2-8-18
Reliability Rule Revision of A.2: Establishing Load Serving Entity Installed Capacity
Requirements to clarify NYISO locational requirement (LCR) analysis requirements and eliminate deliverable external area capacity requirements which should more appropriately be covered in Policy 5.
Normal Process Review
Posted on March 19, 2018
Comments were due on May 3, 2018
No comments were received
PRR 141 Establishing Load Serving Entity Installed Capacity
Approved by the NYSRC Executive Committee on May 11, 2018
The approved rule will be included in the next revision of the NYSRC Reliability Rules and Compliance Manual

Schedule of Upcoming Meetings

Executive Committee
March  8, 2019 Wolfert's Roost Country Club
 9:30 AM

Reliability Compliance Monitoring Subcommittee
February 28, 2019 NYSERDA 17 Columbia Circle, Albany 10AM

Reliability Rules Subcommittee
February 28, 2019 NYSERDA, 17 Columbia Circle, Albany 10AM

Installed Capacity Subcommittee
February 26, 2019, NYISO Krey Corporate Center (KCC), Rensselaer, 10 a.m.