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 plans to create a task force to address the reliability risks posed by growing adoption of electric vehicles.
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NERC CEO Jim Robb discussed several emerging challenges to the grid at the WIRES Summer Meeting in Boston.
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NERC filed its performance assessment with FERC last week, highlighting its accomplishments over the last five years as ERO.
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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 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 staff say the Interregional Transfer Capability Study will lay "important groundwork" for future reliability assessments.
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NERC's Standards Committee worked to keep order in a packed slate of standards development projects this week.
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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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Inverter-based resources took the focus at the monthly meeting of NERC's Standards Committee.
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NERC’s 2024 Summer Reliability Assessment found that every region has met its reserve margin targets but that many areas would face difficult operations in lengthy, widespread heat waves.
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