FERC on Thursday approved a final rule ordering utilities to implement the latest version of the North American Energy Standards Board’s (NAESB) Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities (RM05-5). Under the commission’s rulemaking, the timeline for implementation of version 003.3 of the standards — approved by...

The rejection by NERC’s Standards Committee of the standard authorization request (SAR) for Project 2020-01 (Modifications to MOD-032-1) in December has left the group that submitted the request in a quandary regarding the next step for the project. Members of NERC’s System Planning Impacts for Distributed Energy Resources (SPIDER) Working...

The standard authorization request (SAR) drafting team for Project 2020-06 (Verifications of models and data for generators) is considering how to merge its work with Project 2020-02 (Transmission-connected dynamic reactive resources) after most industry respondents expressed support for the idea in a recent informal comment period. Project 2020-06 was launched...