What document must a Transmission Operator submit to its Reliability Coordinator on an annual basis?

• A. Restoration plan
• B. Incident report
• C. Cybersecurity plan
• D. Financial report

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is that Transmission Operators must maintain a formal restoration plan and regularly share it with their Reliability Coordinator. This Restoration Plan lays out how the operator will restore service after a wide-area outage, including the sequence of actions, priority of load restoration, procedures to follow, resource and personnel needs, and the communication and coordination steps with the Reliability Coordinator and neighboring entities. Requiring an annual submission keeps the RC informed of current capabilities, contacts, and procedures, so they can effectively coordinate across the interconnection during recovery. The other options don’t fit this ongoing coordination purpose: incident reports document events after they happen, cybersecurity plans are addressed under CIP and not typically submitted annually to the RC, and financial reports are unrelated to reliability coordination and restoration planning.