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 Standards Committee unanimously agreed to reject a standard authorization request that would have exempted nuclear generators from the requirements of an event reporting reliability standard.
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NERC's Member Representatives Committee heard progress reports from the groups developing updates to its standards development process and strategic plan.
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NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force released a set of draft recommendations to update the ERO's standards development process.
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FERC issued an NOPR directing several changes to gas pipelines' business practices aimed at increasing information sharing with grid operators, especially during extreme weather.
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NERC's Standards Committee agreed to move forward with multiple high-priority standards development projects.
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Europe's grid regulator issued its first report on the Iberian outages of April 2025, laying out the facts discovered in reviews by authorities and utilities.
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Members of NERC's Standards Committee advanced multiple standards development projects at their quarterly in-person meeting, along with re-electing the chair and vice chair.
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Members of the Reliability and Security Technical Committee heard updates on the upcoming GridEx VIII security exercise, and voted to approve a white paper and reliability guideline at their quarterly meeting.
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NERC's Standards Committee agreed to post two inverter-based resource-related standard authorization requests for industry comment at its monthly meeting.
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NERC's trustees approved next year's budgets while urging stakeholders to continue collaborating with the ERO as the industry faces an ever-growing set of challenges.
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