A new standards development project will be a testbed for some of the proposals by NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force.

Standards Committee members asked for details on the committee's future after NERC's Board of Trustees approved sweeping changes to the standards development process.

NERC's Standards Committee elected its Executive Committee and approved multiple standards actions in its first meeting of 2026.

NERC's Standards Committee wrapped up 2025 by advancing several standards projects, though one item had to be delayed until the next meeting.

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.

NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force released a set of draft recommendations to update the ERO's standards development process.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to move forward with multiple high-priority standards development projects.

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.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to post two inverter-based resource-related standard authorization requests for industry comment at its monthly meeting.