FERC gave final approval Thursday for NERC and WECC to introduce regional reliability standard BAL-002-WECC-3 (RM19-20). The commission also granted the entities the extension they requested for the follow-on progress report that FERC ordered when it approved the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the standard last year. (See FERC Approves...

FERC on Thursday gave NERC and WECC the go-ahead to introduce regional reliability standard BAL-002-WECC-3, but it also ordered the organizations to return in 2023 with a progress report on its effects on the bulk power system (RM19-20). The new standard takes the place of BAL-002-WECC-2a, approved by FERC in...

System operators in the WECC footprint were too quick to declare energy emergency alerts (EEAs) during several recent events, resulting in unnecessary load sheds on two occasions, according to a new NERC "lessons learned" notice. The notice detailed five incidents in which software glitches, communication lapses and generator malfunctions contributed...