NERC & Committees
The North American Electric Reliability Corp., a not-for-profit authority, regulates reliability and security standards for the bulk power system in the continental U.S., Canada, and the northern portion of Baja California, Mexico. NERC is subject to oversight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and governmental authorities in Canada
SERC
Implementing NERC's CIP-013-1 reliability standard took an unexpected level of outreach, utility officials told a SERC Reliability webinar.
EVgo
NERC, WECC and the California Mobility Center agreed to form a working group to examine the reliability risks of EV charging loads on the bulk power system.
NERC
NERC's 2022 State of Reliability Report identified multiple challenges to grid reliability in 2021, with extreme weather topping the list.
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FERC approved NERC's June spreadsheet notice of penalty, including settlements over reliability standard violations submitted by SERC and MRO.
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FERC approved NERC's removal of language from CIP-014 requiring compliance evidence to be stored on site.
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NERC's Standards Committee approved four standard authorization requests at its meeting on Wednesday.
FERC
FERC approved two NOPRs on Thursday aimed at improving utilities' planning for the long-term impacts of climate change to the bulk power system.
AEP Ohio
More than 200,000 AEP customers in Ohio lost power after storms damaged multiple transmission lines and forced load sheds on at least three 138-kV lines.
Sunwatt Solar
NERC added two new reference documents to its website in an effort to consolidate its work on inverter-based resources and distributed energy resources.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The DOE's message is clear: interconnecting solar, wind and other clean energy projects to the grid must be made simpler, faster and fairer.
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