The written weekly editions, as sent, with any corrections marked. Every date and document links to the source as published.
Alberta (AESO)
Two AESO comment windows are open this week, one on the Restructured Energy Market ISO rules and one on Fast Frequency Response Plus. Neither closes this week, and a WECC drafting team meets today.
NERC (North American standards)
A quiet week: nothing closes in the next seven days and nothing new arrived. Two comment windows are still open further out, with Computational Loads Disturbance Performance closing first.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
Eight comment windows close this week, led by Real-Time Balancing Market Offer Submission Timing on Wednesday. Constraints bound at shadow prices of $500/MWh or more on five days of the past week.
WECC (Western US reliability)
One comment window closes this week, on the FERC-725A, 725L, and 725Z information collection, and two more collections in the same 725 series have windows open into December and January. A notice inviting post-technical conference comments on the reliability technical conference arrived today.
Alberta (AESO)
Nothing closes in Alberta in the next seven days. One comment window opened on October 30: the draft term sheet for Fast Frequency Response Plus (FFR+), with feedback due December 18.
NERC (North American standards)
Nothing closes on the standards side in the next seven days, but two comment windows are open: 2026-03 Computational Loads Disturbance Performance, through 2026-11-20, and 2024-02 Planning Energy Assurance, through 2026-12-10.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
Both SPP balancing authority areas spent part of last week under a Resource Advisory, with constraints binding at shadow prices above $1,000/MWh into Monday. This week, 14 comment windows close, including two FERC Order No. 1920 interregional coordination addenda to SPP Tariff Attachment O.
WECC (Western US reliability)
A quiet week in the West: four new notices and one comment window closing in the next seven days, the Commission's FERC-603 information collection on November 5.
Alberta (AESO)
A quiet week in Alberta: no comment window closes in the next seven days and nothing new arrived, though the Market Participant Sandbox Access Questionnaire is due Friday, October 30. Two comment windows closed last week: Internal Demand Rates on Wednesday, October 21, and the Connection Project List on Friday, October 23.
NERC (North American standards)
One comment window closes this week, and it closes today: the Standards Processes Manual revisions that implement the Modernization of Standard Processes and Procedures. One other comment window stays open: 2026-03 Computational Loads Disturbance Performance, through 2026-11-20.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
A Resource Advisory for the West Balancing Authority Area headed this week's grid conditions, and Markets+ tariff revisions fill part of the comment calendar from today through November 4.
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.
Alberta (AESO)
Comment windows close in Alberta this week on Internal Demand Rates, on Wednesday, 2026-10-21, and on the Connection Project List, on Friday, 2026-10-23.
NERC (North American standards)
One comment window closes this week: the Standards Processes Manual revisions tied to the modernization of standard processes and procedures. A new item on computational loads disturbance performance also joined the list.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
SPP issued advisories for both its East and West Balancing Authority Areas in the middle of last week, and constraints bound at a shadow price of $500/MWh or more on every day from October 15 through early this morning. Twenty-one comment windows close in the next seven days, four of them today.
WECC (Western US reliability)
Two electricity windows close in the next seven days: the Standards Processes Manual revisions and the FERC-725S information collection, both due Monday, October 26. Behind them, FERC has three information collection comment requests open, running to December 14.
Alberta (AESO)
One comment window closes this week: Window 1 of the Restructured Energy Market (REM) ISO Rules, on Friday, October 16. Two others closed on October 9, and others run to the following week.
NERC (North American standards)
A quiet week for North American standards: no comment window closes in the next seven days and no new project joined the list. The final ballots on 2026-02 Computational Loads close October 14, and the next comment deadline is on the Standards Processes Manual revisions, October 26.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
A run of advisories in both the East and West balancing authority areas carries into this week, with a West Resource Advisory in effect today and an East one declared for tomorrow. On the stakeholder side, the comment window on Multi-Day Economic Commitment closes tomorrow, and 27 windows close in the next seven days.
WECC (Western US reliability)
Five electricity windows close this week, from the final ballots on NERC's 2026-02 Computational Loads on October 14 to the FERC-555 information collection on October 16. The Standards Processes Manual revisions and FERC-725S follow two weeks from today.
Alberta (AESO)
Two comment windows close Friday: the Alberta Time Change Administrative Amendments and High Complexity Round 2 of the Reliability Standards Sync Up Project. The Reliability Standards Discussion Group meets the day before.
NERC (North American standards)
A quiet week for the standards: no comment window closes in the next seven days and nothing new arrived. The final ballot on 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3 closes today, the ballot pool for the Standards Processes Manual revisions closes October 9, and their comment deadline is October 26.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
SPP has declared a Resource Advisory for its West Balancing Authority Area from 2 p.m. CT today, since extended to an anticipated end of 12 a.m. CT on Wednesday, October 7, after a week in which the CRSP hub reached $1,427/MWh. Fifteen comment and ballot windows close by Friday, and comment windows on the market rule items run through October 19.
WECC (Western US reliability)
One electricity comment or ballot window closes this week, and it closes today: the final ballot on NERC's 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3. Later in October, six comment deadlines arrive on FERC information collections and one on NERC's Standards Processes Manual revisions, and three new notices opened comment windows of their own.
Alberta (AESO)
Several comment windows are open in Alberta, and the one new project is about the clock: Alberta Time Change Administrative Amendments, with comments by 2026-10-09. The next dated step on the calendar is this Tuesday, 2026-09-29, when bill impact requests close on Internal Demand Rates.
NERC (North American standards)
Week of 2026-09-28. A quiet week: one final ballot closes in the next seven days, on 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3, and it is the one new arrival. The nearest comment deadline on the calendar is on the Standards Processes Manual, due 2026-10-26.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
SPP cancelled the Resource Advisory it had declared for the East Balancing Authority Area from noon today until 8 p.m. CT, after a week in which binding constraints repeatedly cleared $1,000/MWh. On the docket side, nine comment and ballot windows close in the next seven days, and a complaint from Entergy Texas naming both MISO and SPP has arrived.
WECC (Western US reliability)
Two electricity windows close in the next seven days: the Commission's FERC-516 information collection today and the final ballot on NERC's 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3 on October 5. The real business is parked later in October, when seven Commission information collections and a NERC standards deadline come due in quick succession.
Alberta (AESO)
One comment window closes this week: the Optimal Transmission Planning (OTP) ISO Rule, on Friday, September 25. Others run into October.
NERC (North American standards)
A single comment window closes this week: comments on the CIP-008 reporting threshold modifications close Wednesday. After that, the next comment deadline is 2026-10-26.
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.
Alberta (AESO)
Nothing closes in Alberta this week, and two comment windows are open: the Optimal Transmission Planning (OTP) ISO Rule to September 25, and High Complexity Round 2 of the Reliability Standards Sync Up Project to October 9. One adequacy consultation has left the open list.
NERC (North American standards)
Week of September 14, 2026. A quiet week: one comment window closes in the next seven days, 2026-02 Computational Loads on Friday, September 18, and no new project joined the list. The next deadline after that is a comment window on September 23, so this edition is short by honest necessity.
Alberta (AESO)
One comment window closes this week: Milestone 3 Round 2 of the Reliability Standards Sync Up Project, on Friday, September 11. Two windows closed on September 4, and another stays open to September 25.
NERC (North American standards)
A quiet week: no comment window closes in the next seven days, and nothing new arrived on the standards development list. The ballot pools for 2022-05 close today and the nearest comment deadline is September 18, which leaves this edition short enough to finish before the coffee does.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
Eighteen comment windows close this week, and nearly everything of weight lands at the far end: one SPP window on the grandfathered agreements index closes Thursday, then four Sec. 205(d) rate filings close on Monday, September 14.
WECC (Western US reliability)
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.
Alberta (AESO)
Week of August 31. Two comment windows close this week, both on Friday.
NERC (North American standards)
The comment window on the Canadian-specific revisions to EOP-012-3 closes today, Monday, August 31, and ballot pools on 2026-02 and 2022-05 close in the next seven days. One new project joined the list in the last seven days, and its comment window runs all the way to late October.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
Everything the week asks of you is due by Thursday: a NERC standards window closes today, SPP's show cause order on transmission service to large load follows tomorrow, and the DPP Fee proposal closes Wednesday. Behind them, six windows land together on September 10.
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.
Alberta (AESO)
One arrival this week, and it is a pricing story: Locational Marginal Pricing is now on the board, while comments on the ISO Tariff Redesign close Friday, September 4.
NERC (North American standards)
A quiet week with one comment deadline: comments on the Canadian-specific revisions to EOP-012-3 are due Monday, August 31. After that, ballot pools close September 3 and September 7, and the next comment deadline is September 18.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
Five comment windows close today, ten routine filings come due between Wednesday and Friday, and a NERC standards window closes on Monday, August 31. Sixteen deadlines in all this week.
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.
Alberta (AESO)
No comment window closes in Alberta this week. The business that matters is a pair of windows that close together on Friday, September 4, with a run of scheduled steps to watch between now and then.
NERC (North American standards)
The week comes down to one deadline: comments on 2023-09 Risk Management for Third-Party Cloud Services close on Friday.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
Twenty-four comment windows close in the next seven days, and the first three of them close today. A new Show Cause Order on Transmission Service to Large Load arrived with comments open through September 1.
WECC (Western US reliability)
Five electricity comment windows close in the next seven days, and Friday's belongs to NERC's cloud services project. Eight more run through late August and into September, and four new items arrived in the last seven days.
MISO (US)
Seventeen comment windows close in the next seven days: sixteen routine filings in combined notices of filings, and FERC's request for post-technical conference comments on improved market and planning software. Meanwhile two of MISO's large load workstreams are due for their next update today.
Southwest Power Pool (US)
Two show cause revision requests landed this week, the large-load thread runs through both, and five comment windows closed in a single day. Eighteen comment windows close in the next seven days. Here is the week, in order of what you can still do about it.