WECC (Western US reliability)

One window closes today: NERC's comment period on the Canadian-specific revisions to EOP-012-3. Behind it, a run of FERC information-collection requests has quietly set comment deadlines from early September into late October.

Corrected November 7, 2026. The first version of this edition said FERC information-collection deadlines began in mid-September and left out other open electricity windows. This version lists them and describes the 28 as tracked items rather than open ones.

The through line: the paperwork behind the paperwork

Nine items arrived in the last seven days, and four of them are FERC information-collection comment requests. Ferc-516, published 2026-08-28, takes comments through 2026-09-28. FERC-725E and Ferc-606 and Ferc-607, both published 2026-08-25, take comments through 2026-09-24. FERC-725S, also published 2026-08-25, runs the longest, through 2026-10-26. NERC opened a window of its own: comments on the Standards Processes Manual Revisions, part of the Modernization of Standard Processes and Procedures Implementation, are due by 2026-10-26.

The rest of the week's arrivals are docket business. FERC accepted an application from GreenGenStorage, LLC, published 2026-08-28, soliciting motions to intervene and protests, and preliminary permit applications from Chugach Electric Association, Inc., published 2026-08-26, and DeepGreen Western Passage SPV LLC, published 2026-08-25, each soliciting comments and motions to intervene. Watched docket ER25-2438 also picked up FERC Issuance 20260824-3069.

Closing this week

Monday 2026-08-31, today: the comment window on 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3 closes. It is the only window ending this week; if you have views to file, today is the day.

Coming up

Tuesday 2026-09-08: comments due on four information-collection comment request extensions, FERC-556, FERC-912, FERC-561, and FERC-555.

Friday 2026-09-18: comments due on two information-collection comment request extensions, FERC-725U and FERC-923, and on the first formal posting of NERC's 2026-02 Computational Loads, open since 2026-08-19.

Tuesday 2026-09-22: reply comments due in FERC's rulemaking on financial forms reporting and filing, Docket RM26-12-000.

Wednesday 2026-09-23: comments due on 2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold.

Thursday 2026-09-24: comments due on FERC-725E and on Ferc-606 and Ferc-607.

Friday 2026-09-25: comments due on the FERC-603 information collection extension.

Monday 2026-09-28: comments due on Ferc-516.

Monday 2026-10-26: comments due on FERC-725S and on the Standards Processes Manual Revisions.

The wide view

Twenty-eight items sit on the tracked list for this edition. Among them are WECC's own standards projects, WECC-0160: WECC IBR Modeling and EMT Screening Criteria and WECC-0157: PRC-006-5 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding, Update to the WECC Regional Variance, alongside a docket load of applications, variances, and surrenders working their way through FERC.

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