Western state utility commissioners should encourage “standardization and harmonization” to effectively integrate inverter-based resources throughout the region, according to a guide developed by WIRAB and Elevate Energy Consulting.

NERC has filed five reliability standards to FERC, comprising the second of three sets of standards for inverter-based resources ordered by the commission.

NERC plans to hold a workshop Nov. 5 to both inform industry of its plan to satisfy FERC Order 909 and solicit input from stakeholders on the next steps.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to move forward with multiple high-priority standards development projects.

FERC denied two clean energy associations' request that it encourage NERC to complete its examination of a recent standard on inverter-based resources quickly.

Texas RE's Member Representatives Committee voted to send a regional reliability standard to industry for votes and comments.

Members of NERC's Standards Committee advanced multiple standards development projects at their quarterly in-person meeting, along with re-electing the chair and vice chair.

ERCOT stakeholders, while raising concerns over the grid operator’s use of conservative operations, have endorsed staff’s recommendations for computing minimum ancillary service quantities for 2026.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to post two inverter-based resource-related standard authorization requests for industry comment at its monthly meeting.

NERC's trustees approved next year's budgets while urging stakeholders to continue collaborating with the ERO as the industry faces an ever-growing set of challenges.