October 10, 2024

North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)

NERC to Try Again on Inverter Rules
NERC stakeholders are expected to consider a new standard authorization request to address inverter-based resources after the Standards Committee rejected two proposed by CAISO.
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NERC MRC/Board Briefs: Nov. 6-7, 2018
NERC’s Board of Trustees and Member Representatives Committee held their quarterly meetings at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta. Here are some of the highlights.
LaFleur, Stakeholders Anxious over NERC Retirement Study
FERC Commissioner LaFleur and others expressed concern that “fuel war” partisans could weaponize NERC’s analysis on coal and nuclear plant retirements.
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SERC Taps ReliabilityFirst Exec as CEO
SERC Reliability Corp. on Monday announced Jason Blake, vice president and general counsel of ReliabilityFirst, as its new CEO, effective Nov. 15.
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FERC Finalizes Supply Chain Standards
FERC approved reliability standards for mitigating supply chain risks in industrial control system hardware, software and computing and networking services.
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EIPC Finds Eastern Tx Planning Working Well
Transmission planning in the Eastern Interconnection is well-coordinated among its planning authorities, according to EIPC.
New NERC Chief Not ‘Smartest Guy in the Room’
NERC CEO Jim Robb spoke to reporters in D.C. about his priorities for the organization, including increasing staff for the E-ISAC.
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NERC Chief: Inverter, Fuel Assurance Standards Needed
NERC CEO Jim Robb said he is pushing for new reliability standards to address fuel assurance concerns and settings for inverters on solar and storage.
NERC Circulating Study on ‘Accelerated’ Retirements
Generation reserve margins might drop if coal and nuclear units retire sooner than anticipated, according to the preliminary findings of a NERC study.
FERC, NERC to Probe January Outages in MISO South
FERC and NERC are conducting a joint inquiry into the January cold snap that resulted in generation outages in MISO South.

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