WECC (Western US reliability)

Five electricity comment windows close in the next seven days, among them NERC's 2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold on Wednesday. Thirteen items arrived in the last seven days, among them an order approving Reliability Standard CIP-014-4.

Corrected November 6, 2026. The first version of this edition listed a 2027-08-31 comment deadline for the City of Lewiston, Maine notice. That notice asks for no comments; the date concerns the automatic renewal of an annual license. The first version also called CIP-008 the only window closing this week and left out six open electricity windows. This version lists them, adds FERC-555 to the week's arrivals, and describes the 26 as tracked items rather than open ones.

The through line: a CIP week

One of the week's deadlines and its most notable arrival both carry a CIP number. On the deadline side, NERC's 2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold closes to comments on Wednesday. On the arrival side, an order approving Reliability Standard CIP-014-4 was published on 2026-09-15.

The rest of the week's thirteen arrivals split into three batches. Published 2026-09-15: four Commission information collection extensions, FERC-561, FERC-912, FERC-556, and FERC-549D, all with comments by 2026-10-15. Published 2026-09-16: a fifth collection extension, FERC-555, with comments by 2026-10-16. Published 2026-09-18: a sixth, Ferc-521, with comments by 2026-10-19, alongside application notices for Greenwood County, South Carolina, the Southeast Alaska Power Agency (twice, in two separate notices), and the City of Aspen, Colorado. Two more arrived besides.

Closing in the next seven days

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

Wednesday, 2026-09-23: comments close on NERC's 2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold.

Thursday, 2026-09-24: comments close on the FERC-725E information collection extension.

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

Monday, 2026-09-28: comments close on the FERC-516 information collection.

Coming up

Comments by 2026-10-15: the four information collection extensions published 2026-09-15, FERC-561, FERC-912, FERC-556, and FERC-549D.

Comments by 2026-10-16: the FERC-555 information collection extension.

Comments by 2026-10-19: the Ferc-521 information collection extension.

Comments by 2026-10-26: NERC's Standards Processes Manual Revisions, part of the Modernization of Standard Processes and Procedures Implementation.

Comments by 2026-10-26: the FERC-725S information collection.

The wide view

Twenty-six items sit on the tracked list for this edition. That count includes WECC's own standards work, WECC-0160 on IBR Modeling and EMT Screening Criteria and WECC-0157 on the PRC-006-5 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding regional variance, along with the Golden Triangle Storage application, a Sunshine Act Meeting Notice, and a Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt Wholesale Generator and Foreign Utility Company Status, with twenty-one more on the list.

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