NERC’s Operating, Planning and Critical Infrastructure Planning committees gathered for their last meetings before turning functions over to the new RSTC.

NERC’s Reliability and Security Technical Committee held its first meeting with a focus on introducing its membership and laying groundwork for operations.

SaskPower briefed the NERC Operating Committee on the mass outage event in which heavy rime ice caused shield wires to sag and contact the phase conductors.

It’s musical chairs for those seeking to join NERC’s new Reliability and Security Technical Committee, with 35 stakeholders vying for 14 seats.

NERC's board approved the merging of the Planning, Operating and Critical Infrastructure Protection committees and named Greg Ford as chairman.

The NERC Operating Committee got a preview of GridEx V, an update on ERCOT’s summer operations and a briefing on the June blackout in Argentina.

NERC will begin testing a new version of its situational awareness tool in mid-November, adding the ability to integrate transmission feeds.

Grid operators and generators need more granular, real-time data to respond to grid oscillation events, engineers on a NERC panel said.

Members of the ORS appeared to reach consensus on the need for an emergency conference call procedure for RCs to supplement the existing NERC hotline.

NERC’s Board of Trustees got to hear first-hand some of the concerns over the proposed merger of its three technical committees,