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Jan. 19, 2024

Hello again from ERO Insider, bringing you the latest news on the exciting world of electric reliability! It’s been a trying week with frigid temperatures blanketing much of the continent, and we hope everyone’s handled the strain well. Our correspondents have been hard at work as usual, so wrap yourselves in a blanket and join us for a look at the week’s stories: 

This week’s cold weather shone a light on the need for more transmission capacity, FERC Chair Willie Phillips said at the commission’s first open meeting of the year. Follow the link for James Downing’s report on how FERC plans to address the grid’s transmission needs, and the ERO’s role. (See Phillips: FERC to Issue Transmission Rule in ‘Very Near Future’.) 

NERC’s planning a busy year of standards development, thanks in no small part to FERC’s order to develop standards related to inverter-based resources. This week the ERO filed its work plan for meeting the commission’s directive, envisioning three years of coordinated effort across the industry. Holden Mann has details on the filing inside. (See NERC Submits IBR Work Plan.) 

Meanwhile, the ERO’s Standards Committee dedicated its first meeting of the year to organizational matters and moving forward with several standards development projects. Click through for details on this week’s open meeting. (See NERC Standards Committee Organizes for New Year.) 

NERC opened a shortened comment and ballot period this week in the latest push to get a new cold weather standard through the stakeholder process. We’ve got more after the jump on the new attempt, which comes after NERC’s Board of Trustees warned it might have to take action on its own to approve the standards if the process fails again. (See NERC Taking Comments as Winter Reliability Standard Deadline Looms.) 

Finally, John Norris has an update on the New York State Reliability Council’s efforts to improve its approaches to resource adequacy modeling and inverter-based resources. Follow the link for more. (See NY State Reliability Council Executive Committee Briefs: Jan. 12, 2024.) 

That’s going to wrap it up for this week, but we’re always on the watch for the news you need from the ERO Enterprise and beyond. Keep checking back for our latest updates, and we’ll see you again next Friday with anything you missed. In the meantime, stay warm and have a great week! 

Upcoming Stakeholder Meetings:

• 1/22/24: Technical Talk with RF
• 1/24/24: NERC Member Representatives Committee Informational Session
• 2/14/24: NERC Board of Trustees/MRC Meetings