The ERO will hold its final planning meeting for GridEx VI from 1 to 3 p.m. ET on May 26. All registered GridEx planners are invited to attend the session, Katherine Ledesma, of the E-ISAC, told the Real-Time Operating Subcommittee (RTOS) at its meeting Wednesday. "The final planning meeting is...

It’s a mystery that has stumped the Electric Reliability Organization’s brightest minds: Why is the Eastern Interconnection regularly seeing 200 MW of excess generation an hour? The anomaly has been observed since about 2016, Resources Subcommittee Greg Park told the Real-Time Operating Subcommittee on Wednesday. It appeared to disappear in...

NERC’s Reliability and Security Technical Committee took a number of actions in a two-day meeting this week. DER Standard Request Denied The committee rejected a standard authorization request (SAR) to revise reliability standard TPL-001-5.1 (Transmission system planning performance requirements). The SAR was proposed by the System Planning Impacts from Distributed...