NERC committee conducts open session addressing committee structure, standards
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Board of Trustees recently conducted a quarterly meeting open session, addressing a series of agenda items to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
Jennifer Sterling of Exelon and Paul Choudhury of BC Hydro, respectively, were elected Member Representatives committee chair and vice chair, while the committee received an update on supply chain activities, specifically the results of the Supply Chain Risk Assessment Data Request.
NERC President and CEO Jim Robb noted the 1965 blackout anniversary in his President’s Report. The incident brought awareness to the need for reliability coordination across the international, interconnected bulk power system (BPS) in North America and, ultimately, led to the creation of the ERO Enterprise.
“Electricity is fundamental to modern society, and nearly 400 million North American citizens rely on an uninterrupted electricity supply to support their way of life,” Robb wrote. “Electric reliability and security depends on a complex fabric of utilities, suppliers, generators, and public/private entities. NERC and the ERO Enterprise strengthen that fabric through our critical role in reliability, resilience, and security.”
The Board also approved the charter to create a new Reliability and Security Technical Committee (RSTC), which officials said is designed to enhance ERO Enterprise operations effectiveness and efficiency and accepted the 2019 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report providing key insights, priorities and high-level leadership for issues of strategic importance to BPS.
