| Order on Local Distribution Determination
FERC issues an order granting in part and denying in part Southern California Edison Company's application for a Commission determination on whether certain facilities are used in local distribition of electric energy. | 12/31/2015 |
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FERC issues an errata to the notice of technical conference for Reliability Standard for Transmission System Planned Performance for Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) Events correcting the web link for attendees to register in Paragraph 3 and 4. | 12/23/2015 |
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FERC issues a notice of a technical conference focused on issues identified in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) for Reliability Standard for Transmission System Planned Performance for Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) Events. This conference will take place on Tuesday March 1, 2016 from 9:00 AM and end approximately 5:00 PM EST at FERC.
| 12/22/2015 |
| Letter Order Approving Reliability Standard PRC-005-6 FERC issues a letter order approving Reliability Standard PRC-005-6 (Protection System, Automatic Reclosing, and Sudden Pressure Relaying Maintenance) as well as the implementation plan for PRC-005-6, including the retirement of previous versions of Reliability Standard PRC-005. | 12/18/2015 |
RD14-14-001, RD15-3-001 and RD15-5-001 | | 12/4/2015 |
| Letter Order Approving Reliability Standards IRO-006-EAST-2 and IRO-009-2 FERC issues a letter order approving Reliability Standards IRO-006-EAST-2 (Transmission Loading Relay Procedure for the Eastern Connection) and IRO-009-2 (Reliability Coordinator Actions to Operate within IROLs), as well as the retirement of currently effective versions Reliability Standards IRO-006-EAST-1 and IRO-009-1. | 12/4/2015 |
RM14-8-000, RD15-3-000, and RM15-9-000
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FERC issues an order dismissing a complaint and denying a petition for rulemaking regarding an Entergy Notice of Penalty.
| 12/2/2015 |
EL14-103-001 and EL14-104-001 | Order on Rehearing FERC issues an order rejecting the requests for rehearing on its February 19, 2015 order in the proceeding related to two complaints objecting to the formation of a new local Balancing Authority in the Michigan Upper Peninsula, and the corresponding cost allocation implications for the three System Support Resource (SSR) units in the American Transmission Company LLC pricing zone. | 11/25/2015 |
| | 11/25/2015 |
| Notice of Extension of Time on NOPRFERC issues a notice extending the comment period from November 30, 2015 until December 15, 2015, to respond to the September 17, 2015 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) re. the availability of certain NERC databases to the Commission. | 11/24/2015 |
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| Order No. 817 Approving TOP and IRO Reliability Standards FERC issues a final rule approving revisions to the Transmission Operations and Interconnection Reliability Operations and Coordination Reliability Standards. The final rule directs NERC to make three modification to the standards within 18 months of the effective date of the final rule. | 11/19/2015 |
RM15-7-000, RM15-12-000 and RM15-13-000 | | 11/19/2015 |
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| | 11/13/2015 |
| Letter Order Approving Errata to BAL-003-1, COM-001-2, VAR-001-4 and Implementation Plan of PRC-004-4
FERC issues a letter order approving NERC's August 25, 2015 petition, and October 23, 2015 supplemental information, seeking approval of errata to three Reliability Standards: BAL-003-1 (Frequency Response Bias Setting), COM-001-2 (Communications), and VAR-001-4 (Voltage and Reactive Control) and to the implementation plan of Reliability Standard PRC-004-4 (Protection System Misoperation Identification and Correction), which have each been previously filed with the Commission and subsequently approved as mandatory and enforceable.
| 11/13/2015 |
RR15-2-001 and RR15-2-002 | Order Conditionally Accepting CMEP Compliance Filings and ROP Revisions
FERC issues an order conditionally accepting NERC's May 20, 2015 and July 6, 2015 risk-based compliance monitoring and enforcement program (CMEP) compliance filings. FERC also directs NERC to submit a compliance filing to modify its Rules of Procedure (ROP) within 120 days of the date of this order.
| 11/4/2015 |
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Errata Notice FERC issues an order conditionally approving NERC's petition to approve the Pro Forma Regional Delegation Agreement (RDA) and eight RDAs effective January 1, 2016, but directs NERC to modify the agreements and submit a compliance filing within 120 days of the date of this order. | 11/2/2015 |
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Errata Notice FERC issues an order accepting the 2016 business plans and budgets of NERC, the Regional Entities, and Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Board (WIRAB). | 11/2/2015 |
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Errata Notice
FERC issues a notice of a technical conference focused on issues related to supply chain risk management identified in the revised Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards NOPR issued on July 16, 2015. This conference will take place on Thursday, January 28, 2016 from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM EST at FERC. | 10/28/2015 |
| Order Approving RBR Initiative ROP Revisions Compliance Filing FERC issues an order accepting the July 17, 2015 Risked-Based Registration (RBR) initiative-related compliance filing that proposed to: eliminate the Load-Serving Entity (LSE) function from the registry criteria and to revise the NERC Rules of Procedure (ROP). FERC also directs NERC to submit an informational filing on the actual effects of this LSE change after it is implemented. | 10/15/2015 |
| | 10/5/2015 |
| Notice of Extension of Time
FERC grants NERC an extension of time to and including November 19, 2015 to comply with the Commission's directive to file revisions to the Compliance and Certification Committee Charter.
| 10/2/2015 |
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FERC issues a letter order accepting the amendments to the Delegation Agreement with Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) – amendments to Exhibit B - the MRO Bylaws.
| 9/30/2015 |
| | 9/18/2015 |
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FERC issues a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) proposing to revise its regulations to provide the Commission and its staff with access, on a non-public and ongoing basis, to three databases maintained by NERC: (1) the Transmission Availability Data System (TADS); (2) the Generating Availability Data System (GADS); and (3) the protection system misoperations database.
| 9/17/2015 |
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FERC issues a final rule approving proposed Reliability Standard PRC-005-4 (Protection System, Automatic Reclosing and Sudden Pressure Relaying Maintenance).
| 9/17/2015 |
