January 28, 2025

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 Board of Trustees/MRC Briefs: Aug. 15, 2024
NERC's Board of Trustees invoked its authority to accelerate standards development for the first time at this week's meeting in Vancouver.
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No Grid Impacts from CrowdStrike Outage, NERC Says
Staff from NERC and the E-ISAC called the recent CrowdStrike outage a useful preview for potential future cyberattacks.
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NERC Planning Task Force on EV Grid Impacts
NERC plans to create a task force to address the reliability risks posed by growing adoption of electric vehicles.
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Robb Reviews Challenges of Changing Grid at WIRES
NERC CEO Jim Robb discussed several emerging challenges to the grid at the WIRES Summer Meeting in Boston.
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NERC Submits Final Performance Assessment
NERC filed its performance assessment with FERC last week, highlighting its accomplishments over the last five years as ERO.
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NERC Promises 1st ITCS Results by August
NERC said it will release the ITCS by August, with additional U.S. analyses to be completed in November and Canadian results to follow next year.
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FERC Accepts NERC ROP Changes, Drops Assessment Proposal
FERC accepted NERC's plan for registering inverter-based resources, while dropping a proposal to require more frequent performance assessments from the ERO.
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NERC: ITCS to Become ‘Road map’ for Grid Studies
NERC staff say the Interregional Transfer Capability Study will lay "important groundwork" for future reliability assessments.
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NERC Committee Seeks Focus in Busy Standards Projects
NERC's Standards Committee worked to keep order in a packed slate of standards development projects this week.
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NERC Targets IBR Modeling Concerns in Level 2 Alert
NERC is requesting a range of information on inverter-based resource modeling because of a series of grid disturbances in recent years.

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