General FAQs


This section houses information about PJM’s compliance with government entities and frequently asked questions about general compliance topics.

  1. How do I determine which NERC standards and which requirements apply to me?
  2. NERC Standard PRC-012 refers to the Regional Reliability Organization’s Special Protection Scheme review procedures. Where can I locate these requirements?
  3. NERC Standard PRC-002 refers to Disturbance Monitoring Equipment installation requirements. Where can I locate these requirements?
  4. Who is the contact person for PJM in their role as the Balancing Authority, Reliability Coordinator, Transmission Operator, Planning Authority, Resource Planner and Transmission Service Provider?
  5. Requirement 2 of NERC CIP-001-2a states that "appropriate parties in the Interconnection" need to be notified in the event of sabotage. Specifically who should be notified?
  6. Where can I locate Reliability Coordination action plans to mitigate potential/actual System Operating Limit, Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit , Control Performance Standard or Disturbance Control Standard violations?
  7. Requirement 1 of MOD-016 -1.1 states that the Planning Authority and Regional Reliability Organization shall have documentation identifying the scope and details of the actual and forecast (a) Demand data, (b) Net Energy for Load data, and (c) controllable Data Management Subcommittee data to be reported for system modeling and reliability analyses. Where can I locate this information?
  8. Where can I locate the Transmission Operator’s outage reporting requirements?
  9. NERC Standard TOP-005-2a is silent on data retention. Even if the data is not in production, is this data still maintained for historic purposes? How long does PJM maintain tool information? Is there any easy mechanism to output a company’s information for a given time period (e.g. report in PDF format)?
  10. NERC Standard PRC-003 refers to the Regional Reliability Organization’s procedures for review, analysis, reporting and mitigation of transmission and generation protection system misoperations. Where can I locate these requirements?
  11. NERC Standard PRC-013 refers to the Regional Reliability Organization’s Special Protection Scheme data retention requirements. Where can I locate these requirements?