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

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.

NERC's new standards aim to satisfy FERC's directive to develop reliability requirements for inverter-based resources.

NERC's Standards Committee moved forward with multiple standards development projects, while rejecting one standard request as proposed by a development team.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to post several standards projects for industry comment, though members expressed concern about a plan to compress their timelines.

Members of NERC’s Standards Committee debated qualifications for standard drafting team participation at their monthly conference call, with the discussion extending the meeting more than a half-hour over its planned end time.

NERC’s SPIDER Working Group warns that traditional approaches to power system planning analysis may not be adequate for the spread of DERs.