FERC proposes to tighten standard to better address extreme grid events

摘要

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has proposed to strengthen a reliability standard to ensure transmission planners come up with an action plan to address certain events on the electric grid that could lead to cascading outages. The North American Electricity Reliability Corp. last year proposed a reliability standard (TPL-001-5) to require transmission planners to do more comprehensive studies on how to protect the electric system in places where there is a single, non-redundant point of protection that could fail.