Category — NERC News

On March 17, 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”)  affirmed an original $80,000 North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) proposed penalty against Turklock Irrigation District (“Turlock”) for an outage caused by vegetation management, specifically reviewing the Notice of Penalty (“NOP”) for FAC-003-1 R2 (see March 5, 2010 edition of the WER). [Read more →]

On March 2, 2011, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) announced the formation of a Cyber Attack Task Force to address what effects a coordinated cyber attack would have on the bulk power system. [Read more →]

On January 31, 2011 the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) filed its first Administrative Citation Notice of Penalty (“NOP”), at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”).  In addition to the Administrative Citation NOP, NERC also filed 22 individual NOPs. [Read more →]

On January 25, 2011, the staff of the Office of Enforcement (“OE” or “Enforcement”) for FERC issued a Notice of Alleged Violations against the Grand River Dam Authority (“GRDA”) for multiple violations of mandatory reliability standards. [Read more →]

On December 16, 2010, FERC released several orders on reliability that showed aggressive progress for several reliability standards.  FERC proposed approval for several reliability standards for the Western Electric Coordinating Council (“WECC”) through two separate orders.  [Read more →]