Reliability Coordinator for Québec

A reliability standard defines the obligations or requirements of entities that operate, plan and use the bulk power systems of North America. The obligations or requirements must be material to reliability and must be measurable. In addition, they must support one or more of the reliability principles and shall be consistent with all of the market interface principles. These principles are stated in NERC's Reliability Standards Development Procedure.

In the Reliability Standards Development Procedure, "reliability standard" is defined as follows:

A requirement to provide for reliable operation of the bulk power system, including without limiting the foregoing, requirements for the operation of existing bulk power system facilities, including cyber security protection, and including the design of planned additions or modifications to such facilities to the extent necessary for reliable operation of the bulk power system; but not including any requirement to enlarge bulk power system facilities or to construct new transmission capacity or generation capacity.