October 10, 2024

North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)

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SPP Team to Take ‘Holistic’ Look at Processes
SPP said that its Board of Directors has created a Holistic Integrated Tariff Team (HITT) to take an all-encompassing look at the different challenges facing the RTO.
NERC Names WECC Chief to Top Post
NERC said that it has appointed Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) chief Jim Robb as its new president and CEO, effective April 9.
Expert Sees ‘Extreme Uptick’ in Cyber Attacks on Utilities
Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee told NARUC that hackers targeting the U.S. electric industry are growing more numerous and more skilled.
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NERC MRC/Board of Trustees Briefs: Feb. 7, 2018
The chairman of NERC’s Board of Trustees said the organization hopes to have a new CEO in place by the summer.
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NERC Board Approves Dissolving SPP Regional Entity
NERC’s Board of Trustees voted to dissolve the SPP Regional Entity by terminating the RTO’s regional delegation agreement.
NERC Seeks to Oversee SPP Reliability Compliance
SPP CEO Nick Brown told the RTO’s board and Members Committee that NERC is proposing it replace SERC as the compliance monitoring authority for the RTO.
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SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee Briefs: Jan. 16-17, 2018
SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved adding a major maintenance cost in mitigated start-up and no-load offers.
FERC Backs NERC Supply Chain Standards
FERC on proposed to adopt several reliability standards intended to mitigate cybersecurity risks posed by the global supply chain of grid operation tools.
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CAISO to Depart Peak Reliability, Become RC
CAISO officials said they “reluctantly” plan for the ISO to become a reliability coordinator (RC) by spring 2019 and will depart from Peak Reliability.
Lights Still on After Nearly 12 Months of Typhoon Trump
While the energy industry has experienced upheaval under Donald Trump in his first year as president, there’s evidence that it has ballast that can withstand it.

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