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's Board of Trustees accepted the latest proposed cold weather standards, which will now be sent to FERC for final approval.
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FERC issued a final rule Thursday directing NERC to develop standards to improve the reliability of inverter-based resources.
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The NERC Standards Committee elected Todd Bennett and Troy Brumfield as its new chair and vice chair, respectively.
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FERC and NERC called for completing winterization standards and strengthening natural gas infrastructure in response to widespread outages last Christmas.
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The RTSC approved a whitepaper looking into the effects of distributed energy resources and their aggregations on the bulk power system.
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NERC will suspend planning to mitigate the impact of an electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear attack, as industry interest has shifted to other priorities.
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An SPP Resource Adequacy Summit provided an opportunity for federal and state regulators, academics, market participants and stakeholders to discuss the reliability issues facing the grid.
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NERC's latest ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report includes energy policy and critical infrastructure interdependencies among crucial reliability risks.
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Facing mounting deadlines, NERC's Standards Committee agreed to shorten industry comment periods on two projects.
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Work is underway on the Interregional Transfer Capability Study that Congress assigned to NERC earlier this year.
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