The number of reliability coordinators in the Western Interconnection should come into focus on Sept. 4, WECC CEO Frye told the NERC Board of Trustees.

The NERC Board of Trustees approved Wisconsin Public Service Corp.’s and Upper Michigan Energy Resources’ requests to move to ReliabilityFirst from MRO.

FERC ordered expanded reporting of cybersecurity incidents, saying attempts not currently reported could lead to bigger, more successful attacks.

The SPP Regional Entity will cease all compliance monitoring and enforcement activities at the close of business Friday.

The bulk power system showed improved ability to rebound from severe storms last year while continuing to improve on most other reliability metrics.

MISO is seeking stakeholder input for its conceptual study to determine how to incorporate transmission outages into its economic planning models.

CAISO will make permanent the practice of boosting its power reserves to account for utility-scale solar tripping offline because of an inverters problem.

FERC gave final approval to NERC reliability standards on training requirements and the coordination of protection systems.

NERC said Wednesday that its annual summer reliability assessment indicates ERCOT and CAISO will face operational challenges and potential reliability concerns this summer, thanks to the two ISOs’ respective loss of baseload generation and lack of fuel assurance.

FERC proposed to approve a revised reliability standard on geomagnetic disturbances but directed NERC to also require mitigation of vulnerabilities to localized events.