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NERC Offers Upbeat Long-term Assessment By Rich Heidorn Jr. NERC offered a mostly upbeat report on the long-term health of the nation’s grid Thursday, celebrating results from its first interconnection-wide frequency response studies while highlighting the need to model the increasing volume of distributed resources and supplement variable generation...
NERC Releases ‘Stress Test’ Analysis of Gen Retirements By Michael Brooks NERC on Tuesday warned that faster-than-expected coal and nuclear plant retirements could jeopardize reliability if grid operators are not prepared. "If these retirements happen faster than the system can respond with replacement generation, including any necessary transmission facilities...
By Tom Kleckner FERC on Monday denied SPP’s request for waivers from regulations guiding the confidential treatment of information in its explanation of how it allocated costs related to a NERC fine, the amount of which has not been publicly disclosed because of grid security concerns (ER19-97). SPP filed the...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC on Thursday approved NERC’s revised geomagnetic disturbance reliability standard, which broadens the definition of GMDs, requires grid operators to collect certain data and imposes deadlines for corrective actions (RM18-8, RM15-11-003). NERC created Reliability Standard TPL-007-2 (Transmission System Planned Performance for Geomagnetic Disturbance Events) in response...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. ATLANTA — NERC stakeholders are expected to consider a new standard authorization request (SAR) to address inverter-based resources after the Standards Committee rejected two SARs proposed by CAISO in September, officials said last week. CAISO submitted the SARs in May, saying it had recorded at least...
LaFleur, Stakeholders Anxious over NERC Retirement Study By Rich Heidorn Jr. ATLANTA — FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur and several stakeholders expressed concern Tuesday that "fuel war" partisans could weaponize NERC’s coming analysis on the impact of a dramatic increase in coal and nuclear plant retirements. But based on the...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC on Thursday approved reliability standards for mitigating supply chain risks in industrial control system hardware, software and computing and networking services. The commission also ordered NERC to develop rules expanding the supply chain protections to include electronic access control and monitoring systems (EACMS). The commission’s...
NERC Chief Sees Need for Inverter, Fuel Assurance Standards By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — NERC CEO Jim Robb said Thursday he is pushing for new reliability standards to address fuel assurance concerns and ride-through settings for inverters on solar generation and storage. "I think a standard will be...
NERC Circulating Study on ‘Accelerated’ Retirements By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Generation reserve margins might drop and fuel-assurance risks could increase if coal and nuclear units retire sooner than anticipated, according to the preliminary findings of a NERC study focused on PJM and ERCOT. PJM staff...
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