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.

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.

NERC's Board of Trustees invoked its authority to accelerate standards development for the first time at this week's meeting in Vancouver.

The FBI warned that inverter-based resources may be particularly vulnerable to malicious cyber actors in an industry alert.

FERC accepted NERC's plan for registering inverter-based resources, while dropping a proposal to require more frequent performance assessments from the ERO.

FERC will consider several items touching on the ERO Enterprise at June 27 open meeting.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors has passed one contentious protocol change and tabled another that have divided stakeholders and staff and led the IMM to argue against the heavy use of ECRS.

Several renewable energy developers are opposing ERCOT stakeholders’ approval of a controversial rule change that would impose voltage ride-through requirements on IBRs.  

ERCOT stakeholders and staff came to an agreement on a rule change that imposes voltage ride-through requirements on IBRs.

Extreme heat in the Desert Southwest and low hydro in the Northwest could pose reliability problems for the Western Interconnection this summer, although the region doesn’t face an alarming risk for grid emergencies, WECC officials said.