North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)

CDC
Omicron Forces NERC to Retreat from Hybrid Board Format
NERC Board Chair Ken DeFontes announced that the organization has once again delayed its return to in-person meetings because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Santee Cooper
FERC Approves $40K Penalty for Santee Cooper
FERC approved a $40,000 penalty against South Carolina utility Santee Cooper for violations of NERC reliability standards spanning more than 14 years.
ReliabilityFirst
AEP to Pay $570K in NERC Penalties
FERC last week approved penalties against utilities in the footprints of ReliabilityFirst, MRO, and WECC for violations of NERC reliability standards.
NERC
NERC Identifies 10-Year Challenges from Weather, Resource Mix
Severe weather and rapidly diversifying generation will challenge electric reliability in the next decade, NERC said in its Long-Term Reliability Assessment.
NERC
SERC Urges Winter Preps Before Standard Enforced
SERC's year-end board meeting concentrated on the importance of members adopting NERC’s new cold weather standards before they become enforceable in early 2023.
Eric Goff
PUC Forges Ahead with ERCOT Market Redesign
Texas regulators on Thursday pushed ahead with a market re-design strawman, issuing directives to ERCOT to work with PUC staff in implementing the changes.
NERC
NERC Standards Committee Briefs: Dec. 15, 2021
NERC’s Standards Committee approved a revised charter and standard authorization requests for its MOD and PRC rules in its year-end meeting.
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NERC RSTC Revisits Rejected Standards Projects
NERC's Reliability and Security Technical Committee voted to endorse proposals aimed at reviving two previously cancelled standards projects.
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NAESB Starts Gas-electric Coordination Project
The North American Energy Standards Board has launched a project to develop new standards governing coordination between the gas and electric industries.
ERCOT Board of Directors Briefs: Dec. 10, 2021
ERCOT's new Board of Directors met publicly for the first time since February's winter storm and assured its audience that a new sheriff is in town.

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