WECC (Western US reliability)

Two electricity comment windows close this week, and both close today: the Standards Processes Manual revisions and the FERC-725S information collection. Behind them sit three Commission information collection comment windows running into November and December, plus four new items: a NERC comment window through November 20 and three on meetings and a reliability technical conference.

Corrected November 7, 2026. The first version of this edition said one comment window closed this week and left out other open electricity windows. This version lists them and describes the 26 as tracked items rather than open ones.

Closing this week

Today, October 26: the comment windows on the Standards Processes Manual Revisions and the Modernization of Standard Processes and Procedures Implementation and the FERC-725S information collection close. If you intend to weigh in, today is the day.

Coming up

Comments by November 5: the FERC-603 information collection extension.

Comments by November 16: Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725A, 725L, and 725Z); Comment Request; Revision.

Comments by November 20: the comment period on the Standard Authorization Request for NERC's 2026-03 Computational Loads Disturbance Performance, open since October 22.

Comments by December 14: Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725B); Comment Request; Extension.

Four items arrived in the last seven days. One is the NERC comment period above, opened October 22. The other three are meetings and conferences, not comment windows. Published October 20 were the third supplemental notice of the Commissioner-led Reliability Technical Conference and a notice of a joint meeting of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Published October 22: Sunshine Act Meetings.

The wide view

Twenty-six items sit on the tracked list for this edition. Among them are 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.

Dates and documents are the source's own. For the same coverage across several markets, see the Pro tier.