WECC (Western US reliability)

Five electricity comment windows close in the next seven days, and Friday's belongs to NERC's cloud services project. Eight more run through late August and into September, and four new items arrived in the last seven days.

Corrected November 7, 2026. The first version of this edition said the cloud services window was the only one closing this week and the first to close, and left out other open electricity windows. This version lists them and describes the 21 as tracked items rather than open ones.

The through line: the cloud services window closes Friday

One of five hard deadlines in the next seven days is 2023-09 Risk Management for Third-Party Cloud Services, whose comment window closes this Friday. It is not traveling alone: comments on 2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold run through late September, and 2025-06 Supply Chain Risk Management is still on the tracked list.

Closing in the next seven days

Wednesday, August 19: post-technical conference comments close on improved market and planning software, Docket AD10-12-017.

Thursday, August 20: comments close on the FERC-725S information collection extension.

Friday, August 21: comments close on 2023-09 Risk Management for Third-Party Cloud Services.

Monday, August 24: initial comments close in FERC's rulemaking on financial forms reporting and filing, Docket RM26-12-000, and comments close on the FERC-516 information collection extension.

New this week

Four items joined the list in the last seven days. The Federal Register carried a Regulatory Agenda, a supplemental notice of the Reliability Technical Conference, and a notice instituting a Section 206 proceeding with a refund effective date for NorthWestern Corporation. FERC also posted issuance 20260811-3092 in watched docket ER25-2438.

Coming up

Today, Monday, August 17: the Drafting Team for WECC-0160: WECC IBR Modeling and EMT Screening Criteria meets. A meeting, not a deadline.

Comments by Monday, August 31: 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3.

Comments by Tuesday, September 8: four information collection extensions, FERC-556, FERC-912, FERC-561, and FERC-555.

Comments by Tuesday, September 22: reply comments in FERC's rulemaking on financial forms reporting and filing, Docket RM26-12-000.

Comments by Wednesday, September 23: 2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold.

Comments by Friday, September 25: the FERC-603 information collection extension.

The wide view

Twenty-one items sit on the tracked list for this edition, from WECC-0157: PRC-006-5 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding, Update to the WECC Regional Variance to NERC work such as 2026-02 Computational Loads and 2026-01 PRC-006 Standard Updates.

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