WECC’s new Path Task Force kicked off an effort to examine the role of transmission path rating procedures in the Western Interconnection.

FERC approved a settlement between SERC Reliability and Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. for violations of NERC reliability standards.

Stakeholders voiced concern that WECC will move too fast and cut too deep with a plan to sweepingly reform its committee structure.

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing NERC and its REs to continue adapting their policies in hopes of helping utilities cope with the outbreak.

WECC’s Stakeholder Engagement Task Force has proposed making sweeping changes to the regional entity’s stakeholder group structure.

SERC Reliability’s Board of Directors has appointed its first three independent members following bylaw changes approved by FERC this year.

NERC is set to begin training entities on its new Align tool and Secure Evidence Locker by the end of the year, with MRO and Texas RE going first.

WECC will take an interconnection-wide approach as it analyzes the events from an August heat wave that prompted CAISO to initiate rolling blackouts.

The Texas PUC is terminating its reliability monitoring contract with Texas Reliability Entity for the ERCOT region.

FERC gave WECC the go-ahead to introduce a new version of its reliability standard regarding contingency reserves.