NERC & Committees
The North American Electric Reliability Corp., a not-for-profit authority, regulates reliability and security standards for the bulk power system in the continental U.S., Canada, and the northern portion of Baja California, Mexico. NERC is subject to oversight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and governmental authorities in Canada
NERC is developing a framework for prioritizing known and emerging risks that it soon hopes to hand off to a key committee for further refinement.
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NERC’s Board of Trustees approved the final slate of members for the new Reliability and Security Technical Committee, with its first meeting next month.
NERC’s Enterprise Effectiveness Survey will be discontinued after participants called the exercise “complicated, inefficient, ineffective and duplicative.”
FERC accepted NERC Notices of Penalty against the Bonneville Power Administration, Idaho Power and the Niles Light Department.
The team working on NERC’s proposed cold-weather preparedness standard is revising its SAR in response to industry comments.
FERC recertified NERC as the ERO for another five years while ordering the organization to audit its regional entities and improve oversight of the E-ISAC.
Bill Lawrence, who had served as director of the E-ISAC since 2018, has returned to NERC in a new role after an unexplained three-month absence.
The standards drafting team revising the requirements for determining and communicating SOLs is progressing toward posting the standard for comment.
Retiring NERC Trustee David Goulding recalled his time with the ERO, urging stakeholders to understand their own limitations and accept advice from others.
DERs such as rooftop solar panels and batteries may pose a higher risk for grid stability than previously thought, the chief engineer for SDG&E warned.
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