Category — NERC News

On June 2, 2010, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) and the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) published their report entitled “High-Impact, Low-Frequency Event Risk to the North American Bulk Power System” (“HILF report”).  The report highlights risks that could have disastrous impact on the bulk power system, such as acts of war, terrorism, and coordinated criminal activity, but which are either rare or have never occurred.  [Read more →]

On May 20, 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC” or the “Commission”) Staff presented the “Summer 2010 Energy Market and Reliability Assessment” report. The assessment relied on data from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (“NERC”) assessment of demand and capacity forecasts and data from several reliability regions.  [Read more →]

On March 26, 2010, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (“WECC”) Board of Directors approved their strategic plan for 2010-2012.  The plan announced four strategies and seventeen corresponding action priorities WECC will use to achieve their objectives in the upcoming years. [Read more →]

On March 18, 2010, FERC approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (“NERC”) plan to implement eight Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standards, CIP-002-1 through CIP-009-1 (“CIP Standards”) by generator owners and operators of nuclear power plants in the United States (“Implementation Plan”).  NERC’s Implementation Plan was filed on January 19, 2010 as part of a compliance filing in response to FERC’s request for additional information on December 17, 2009. [Read more →]

On March 18, 2010, FERC adopted a Policy Statement on Penalty Guidelines for its enforcement program (“Policy Statement”), a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“NOPR”), and a series of orders intended to address the reliability of the bulk power system. [Read more →]