12.3.21 - NYISO Report Highlights Tightening Reliability Margins
' Rensselaer, NY -- The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) today released its Comprehensive Reliability Plan (CRP), the culmination of the 2020-2021 Reliability Planning Process. The CRP concludes that the New York State bulk power system will meet all applicable reliability criteria from 2021 through 2030 for forecasted system demand in normal weather.
However, the report highlights that the margin to maintain reliability over the next ten years will narrow or could be eliminated based upon changes in forecasted system conditions.
There are a number of risks to reliability identified in the CRP, such as delayed implementation of planned generation and transmission projects, additional generator deactivations beyond those expected or unplanned outages, and the impacts of extreme weather conditions.
“The latest study demonstrates that our reliability margins are thinning to concerning levels beginning in 2023,” said Zach Smith, Vice President of System & Resource Planning. “We have to move carefully with the grid in transition in order to maintain reliability and avoid the kind of problems we’ve seen in other parts of the U.S.”
The potential risks to reliability identified in the analyses may be resolved by new capacity resources coming into service, construction of additional transmission facilities, and/or increased energy efficiency, integration of distributed energy resources, and growth in demand response participation. The NYISO will continue to monitor these and other developments to determine whether changing system resources and conditions could impact the reliability of the New York bulk electric grid.'