FERC last week approved a settlement between SERC Reliability and Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI) for violations of NERC reliability standards. The ERO notified the commission of the settlement, which carries a penalty of $430,000, in a Notice of Penalty (NOP) on Sept. 30 (NP20-22); FERC indicated in a notice...

NERC CEO Jim Robb said in a media briefing Thursday that the organization has no plans to request further delays in the effective dates of seven reliability standards that were deferred earlier this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. FERC agreed in April to extend the implementation of the...

By Holden Mann FERC has agreed to defer the implementation of seven reliability standards scheduled to take effect this year (RM15-4, et al.), which NERC requested earlier this month "as a measure to help ensure grid reliability amid the impacts [of] the coronavirus outbreak." (See NERC Requests FERC Defer Standards...