WECC

Four electricity comment windows close this week, all on Tuesday. Otherwise a quiet week on the Western reliability docket: three items arrived and one comment window closed. The real work now sits in a late September cluster of deadlines.

Corrected November 7, 2026. The first version of this edition said nothing on the WECC list closed this week and left out other open electricity windows. This version lists them, corrects the FERC-516 description, and describes the 31 as tracked items rather than open ones.

The through line: late September fills up

Four windows on the WECC list close this week, all on Tuesday, September 8. The back half of the month is stacked behind them: five comment windows land between Wednesday, September 23 and Monday, September 28, close enough together that a reader with more than one of them in scope may want to pick an order now rather than then.

Closing this week

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

New this week

Three items arrived in the last seven days. Two notices published on September 4: DeepGreen Cook Inlet SPV, LLC's preliminary permit application was accepted for filing, soliciting comments and motions to intervene, and the City of Sturgis, Michigan's application for a temporary variance was likewise accepted, also soliciting comments and motions to intervene. September 2 brought a notice of membership of the Performance Review Board for Senior Executives, confirmation that even senior executives get reviewed.

What moved

The comment window on 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3 closed on Monday, August 31.

Coming up

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

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 Thursday, September 24: two information collection extensions, FERC-725E and FERC-606 and FERC-607.

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

Comments by Monday, September 28: the FERC-516 information collection on electric rates and tariffs, also an extension.

Comments by Monday, October 26: the FERC-725S information collection and the Standards Processes Manual Revisions under the Modernization of Standard Processes and Procedures Implementation.

The wide view

The tracked list for this edition stands at 31 items, from the regional standards work in WECC-0160 on IBR modeling and EMT screening criteria and WECC-0157 on the PRC-006-5 underfrequency load shedding regional variance to a steady run of accepted applications, GreenGenStorage, LLC, Chugach Electric Association, Inc., and DeepGreen Western Passage SPV LLC among them.

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