North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)

Seeking “Bright Line,” FERC Leaves BES Appeal Rules Unclear
By Rich Heidorn Jr PJM Insider The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave final approval Thursday to NERC’s revised definition of the “Bulk Electric Syst...
Highlights of CIP Version 5
CIP version 5 is comprised of 10 standards, one covering the categorization of assets and nine mitigating their risk of being compromised. Categorization of ...
Bulk Electric Systems (BES) Inclusions and Exclusions
I1 - Transformers with the primary terminal and at least one secondary terminal operated at 100 kV or higher unless excluded under Exclusion E1 or E3. I2 ...
What You Need To Know About CIP Version 5
NERC’s version 5 Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) rules include 10 standards, two of them new. The commission’s conditional approval of version 5 ca...
Cost Recovery Criteria OK’d
The Commission approved criteria for determining which NERC activities are eligible for cost recovery under section 215 of the Federal Power Act. Reason for ...
Transmission System Briefs
In an effort to improve data collection, PJM will soon begin testing a new method for making interconnection applications. Reason for Change: PJM engineers ...
MIC to Probe ‘Sham Scheduling’
The Market Implementation Committee approved a request by Market Monitor Joseph Bowring to investigate whether traders could be manipulating PJM’s interface ...
CIP Audit Has No Findings
ReliabilityFirst Corp. completed its Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) audit of PJM last week with no findings. The audit covered 29 standards, Mark K...
Manual Change: Nuclear Plant Coordination (M39)
The following PJM manual change was approved by the Markets and Reliability Committee on Feb. 28, 2013, effective March 1, 2013. For more information, contac...
Manual Change: Training and Certification (M40)
The following PJM manual change was approved by the Markets and Reliability Committee on Feb. 28, 2013, effective March 1, 2013. For more information, contac...

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