The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week proposed revisions to several sets of reliability standards:

• In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on transmission operations (TOP) and interconnection reliability operations and coordination (IRO) standards, the commission outlined language it said would clarify standards for transmission operators and reliability coordinators, combining the eight current TOP standards into three. The commission said that the North American Electric Reliability Corp. had addressed concerns it raised in November 2013 about outage coordination and the treatment of system operating limits and interconnection reliability operating limits (IROLs) (RM15-16).
• A second NOPR is designed to streamline and clarify requirements of emergency preparedness and operations (EOP) and protection and control (PRC) reliability standards. It would revise the definition of a remedial action scheme (RM15-7, RM15-13, RM15-12).

Comments on the proposed rules are due 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.