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
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NERC staff had to "hit the ground running" after the Board of Trustees ordered a technical conference on inverter-based resource standards, the Standards Committee heard.
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Members of NERC’s Standards Committee debated qualifications for standard drafting team participation at their monthly conference call, with the discussion extending the meeting more than a half-hour over its planned end time.
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NERC's Board of Trustees invoked its authority to accelerate standards development for the first time at this week's meeting in Vancouver.
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Staff from NERC and the E-ISAC called the recent CrowdStrike outage a useful preview for potential future cyberattacks.
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NERC plans to create a task force to address the reliability risks posed by growing adoption of electric vehicles.
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NERC CEO Jim Robb discussed several emerging challenges to the grid at the WIRES Summer Meeting in Boston.
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NERC filed its performance assessment with FERC last week, highlighting its accomplishments over the last five years as ERO.
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NERC said it will release the ITCS by August, with additional U.S. analyses to be completed in November and Canadian results to follow next year.
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FERC accepted NERC's plan for registering inverter-based resources, while dropping a proposal to require more frequent performance assessments from the ERO.
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NERC staff say the Interregional Transfer Capability Study will lay "important groundwork" for future reliability assessments.
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