NERC has filed five reliability standards to FERC, comprising the second of three sets of standards for inverter-based resources ordered by the commission.

FERC approved settlements with three utilities in the footprints of SERC Reliability and ReliabilityFirst, totaling $185,000 in penalties.

SERC Reliability claimed Entergy staff ignored multiple high-priority warnings, one of which led to a loss of load for several customers, in determining the $1.25 million penalty.

NERC's new standards aim to satisfy FERC's directive to develop reliability requirements for inverter-based resources.

FERC approved settlements between ReliabilityFirst and two Cogentrix entities with a total penalty of $110,000, along with additional settlements in SERC's footprint.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to post several standards projects for industry comment, though members expressed concern about a plan to compress their timelines.

FERC approved two new standards outlining how entities must conduct energy reliability assessments to identify potential future emergencies.

NERC has submitted for FERC's approval two standards that would require balancing authorities to perform regular energy reliability assessments.

NERC's trustees took action on a number of standards items, along with multiple organizational items, in the last board meeting of 2024.

NERC's Standards Committee passed a slate of actions in its monthly meeting.