Feb. 16, 2024
Happy Presidents’ Day weekend from ERO Insider! Technically the holiday is in celebration of George Washington’s birthday, but I’m sure he wouldn’t mind that it’s expanded to all of his successors ... right? Anyway, on to our content from this week:
First up, Holden Mann was in Houston for a couple days for the quarterly meeting of NERC’s Member Representatives Committee and Board of Trustees, the latter of which re-elected Ken DeFontes as its chair. Click to see what else happened at the two-day meeting. (See NERC Board of Trustees/MRC Briefs: Feb. 14-15, 2024.)
Holden also reported on this year’s priorities report by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. At the top of it was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the threat posed by the Chinese government to U.S. infrastructure. (See CISA Highlights China Threat in 2024 Priorities Report.)
In Washington, James Downing attended FERC’s monthly open meeting, which was held at Howard University this month in recognition of Black History Month. There, the commission finalized new mandatory reliability standards aimed at ensuring utilities do not cut off power to critical natural gas infrastructure during cold weather reliability events and exacerbate outages, as happened during February 2021’s Winter Storm Uri. Check out his report for the details. (See FERC Finalizes Winter Reliability Standards from 2021’s Uri.)
And in New York, the State Reliability Council issued its final standards for interconnecting large inverter-based resources to the NYISO grid, making it the first state, and grid operator, to do so. Take a look at John Norris’ report for some final comments from stakeholders and a link to the new standards. (See New York Approves Final Rule on Inverter-based Resources.)
That’s all for now, but stay tuned next week for the latest in electric reliability news. Have a great holiday weekend!
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