WECC (Western US reliability)

Three electricity comment windows close this week, two today and one a week from today: NERC's Canadian-specific revisions to EOP-012-3. The nine items that arrived this week are mostly routine docket mail, and every new deadline among them lands in September.

Corrected November 7, 2026. The first version of this edition called the Canadian-specific revisions to EOP-012-3 the only window closing this week, said the calendar went quiet until September 18, and left out other open electricity windows. This version lists them and describes the 26 as tracked items rather than open ones.

The through line: August ends with three deadlines

Two windows close today, and the third, the Canadian-specific revisions, closes next Monday. After that, the calendar goes quiet until September 8, so if the Canadian-specific revisions matter to your footprint, this is the week to write.

Closing this week

Today, 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.

Monday, August 31: comments close on 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3.

The rest of the week's arrivals are routine per-docket business, and Friday was the busy day. On August 21, applications were accepted for filing and put out for comment, intervention, and protest from Brookfield White Pine LLC for a temporary variance, Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power Company for a temporary variance, and Seefeld Corporation for surrender of an exemption. Earlier in the week, a notice of authorization for continued project operation for Pacific Gas & Electric Company was published on August 19, and an August 18 notice announced additional scoping sessions on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's proposed surrender, decommissioning, and non-project use. The scoping sessions are scheduled steps, not comment windows; nothing in that paragraph carries a deadline this week.

What moved

The comment window on 2023-09 Risk Management for Third-Party Cloud Services closed on Friday, August 21.

Coming up

Tuesday, September 8: comments are due on four Commission information collection extensions, FERC-556, FERC-912, FERC-561, and FERC-555.

Friday, September 18: comments are due on two Commission information collection extensions published August 19, FERC-725U and FERC-923, and on the first formal posting of NERC's 2026-02 Computational Loads, open since August 19.

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

Wednesday, September 23: comments close on 2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold.

Friday, September 25: comments are due on the FERC-603 information collection extension.

The wide view

Twenty-six items sit on the tracked list for this edition. Among them are WECC-0160, the WECC IBR Modeling and EMT Screening Criteria, WECC-0157, an update to the WECC Regional Variance in PRC-006-5 on automatic underfrequency load shedding, the Regulatory Agenda, the supplemental notice for the Reliability Technical Conference, and the Section 206 proceeding and refund effective date involving NorthWestern Corporation.

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