NERC questions with correct answers

What entity balances generation and monitors/employs contingency reserves? CORRECT ANSWER Balancing Authority (BA) What entity has the widest system view and is the "supervisor"? CORRECT ANSWER Reliability coordinator (RC) What entity monitors transmission lines and operates tap-changers, breakers, capacitors, etc? CORRECT ANSWER Transmission Operators (TOP) What is a group of BAs that have agreements to help cover each other's reserve and regulation requirements? CORRECT ANSWER Reserve Sharing Group (RSG) What entity schedules energy transitions and buys and sells energy? CORRECT ANSWER Purchasing and Selling Entity (PSE) What's an LSE? CORRECT ANSWER Load serving entity. (what it sounds like What's the difference between a GOP and a GO? CORRECT ANSWER Generator Operator (entity that operates the generation). Generator Owner (owns generation, in charge of certain requirements needed to operate a generator in the NERC world) What does SCADA stand for? What's it do? CORRECT ANSWER Supervisory control and data acquisition. It's the program/screen you use to see your equipment and operate it. (you'd see all your busses, breakers, switches, generators, capacitors, etc)