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April 27, 2025

North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)

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FERC Approves ERO’s Energy Assessment Mandates
FERC approved two new standards outlining how entities must conduct energy reliability assessments to identify potential future emergencies.
ReliabilityFirst
FERC Approves $420K in Penalties for RF Utilities
FERC approved settlements between ReliabilityFirst and two separate utilities in its footprint for violations of NERC reliability standards.
NERC
EIPC: Transmission Studies Need More ‘Granularity’
Members of the Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative urged regulators and policymakers not to rely solely on NERC's ITCS to guide transmission planning.
FERC
FERC Approves IBR, Extreme Weather Reliability Standards
FERC approved four proposed reliability standards: three relating to inverter-based resources and one for extreme weather planning.
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Utilities Say Procurement Challenges Growing Since Pandemic
Industry leaders spoke on the grid's supply chain challenges at a technical session during NERC's Board of Trustees committee meetings in Miami.
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NERC Leaders Highlight Canada-US Collaboration
NERC's chair and CEO touted the ERO's work across borders in a Board of Trustees meeting that featured leadership turnover and an initiative to remake the standards development process.
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E-ISAC: Foreign Actors Continue to Target Grid
China and other foreign actors remain committed to undermining the North American power grid, representatives of the E-ISAC said.
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NASEO Panel Explores Coordinated Planning to Meet Demand Growth
The U.S. electric power industry faces unprecedented challenges from the size, pace and impacts of demand growth and should look to new approaches for possible solutions, according to speakers at NASEO’s Energy Policy Outlook Conference.
EMC Engineering Services
NERC Updates FERC on IBR Registration Progress
In a filing, NERC told FERC it estimates more than 850 inverter-based resources will need to be registered under new criteria.
NOAA
FERC, NERC Praise Grid Performance in Cold Snap
FERC and the ERO have launched a review into the electric grid's performance during January's extreme cold weather that brought record low temperatures and snowfall to the Southeastern U.S.

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