Welcome to the 2015 SERC Drill-RCIS PJM RC: MISO, what's your direct number out there? TVA and ourselves are having trouble finding a good one. October 2015 serc joined the chat October 2015 serc joined the chat October 2015 PJM RC: As of 14:15 EPT PJM's EKPC zone has lost all of its generation and appears to be fully blacked out. EKPC is performing a thorough assessment, updates to follow. October 2015 MISO RC: joined the chat October 2015 peve joined the chat October 2015 PJM RC joined the chat October 2015 serc joined the chat October 2015 TVA_RC joined the chat October 2015 TVA_RC: MISO RC are you on the line October 2015 TVA_RC joined the chat October 2015 TVA_RC: TVA reported approx. 2500 MWs lost in the SE region of TVA. Crews in route October 2015 TVA_RC: LGEE has loss all generation and load in their area. (Total system blackout.) October 2015 MISO RC joined the chat October 2015 MISO RC joined the chat October 2015 NERC joined the chat October 2015 MISO RC joined the chat October 2015 MISO RC: MEPA has currently Moselle #3, #4 & Sylvarena #3 online serving 101 MWs total. 161 kV in service. Moselle to Hintonville Moselle to Columbia Columbia to Plant Morrow Morrow to Purvis Bulk Purvis Bulk to Lumberton Hintonville to Plant Morrow Hintonville to Bennedale Hitonville to Waynesborrow. October 2015 figure 5. The Chatzy Internet application used to replicate the RCIS. following Hurricane Matthew, and helped minimize restoration time. Recommendations Improve Sharing of Lessons Learned The results of the 2016 wgoT survey, as well as the results of the lessons learned from gridex iii, show that there is some reluctance to share lessons learned from drills. almost all respondents to the 2016 wgoT survey indicated they do not want either their regional reliability organization or nerC to monitor or evaluate their drills. similarly, only 24% of gridex iii participating utilities elected to share their lessons learned with nerC staff. There is a great deal to learn from sharing lessons: nerC and the regional reliability organizations should seek ways of facilitating the sharing of lessons learned without fear of compliance findings. Increase the Number of Exercises or Drills while most all respondents to the 2016 wgoT survey indicated they felt their system restoration training was sufficient to prepare their system operators for a restoration event, participation in one or two drills a year isn't likely to build the type of "auto-response" that system operators and others need to recognize and respond to an unusual system event. with only one or two restoration drills conducted each july/august 2018 figure 6. The PJM interconnection training simulator. (Used with permission from PJM.) ieee power & energy magazine 105