Standards Projects Completed

This Page contains a list of projects completed since July 29th 2024 and the hyperlinks to those projects.

The document found here Completed WECC Standards Projects since 2015 contains a list of all projects completed from January 1, 2015 through July 29th 2024. If documents for a project completed during that time are needed please reach out to Donovan Crane in the standards department and they will help get you the documents that you need.

Project ID Project Project Completed Description Effective Date
WECC-0159 WECC-0159: IRO-006-WECC-3 Qualified Path Unscheduled Flow (USF) Relief, 5 Year Review The WSC accepted the Drafting Teams "no change" recommendation and has deemed the project complete.
WECC-0158 WECC-0158: IRO-002-7, Reliability Coordination – Monitoring and Analysis with WECC Regional Variance, 5 Year Review The WSC accepted the Drafting Teams "no change" recommendation and has deemed the project complete at their March 24, 2026 meeting.
WECC-0156 WECC-0156: VAR-001-5 Voltage and Reactive Control Modification to the WECC Regional Variance The WECC Standards Committee accepted the DT's recommendation of "No Change" at the May 21, 2025 meeting and deemed the project complete.
​WECC-0155 ​WECC-0155: PRC-006-WECC-CRT-4, Underfrequency Load Shedding WECC Standards Committee Accepted the drafting teams recommendation of "No Change" at the 03/06/2025 Meeting and deemed the project complete
WECC-0153 WECC-0153: INT Consolidation Criterion Project (ICC) WECC Board of Directors approved for October 1, 2024 effective date.
​WECC-0149 ​WECC-0149: FAC-501 Revision Process to Augment WECC-0141
​​WECC-0147 ​​WECC-0147 : BAL-004-WECC-3, ATEC Five-year Review with Focus on Requirement R1 FERC Approved BAL-004-WECC-4 on 4/23/2025
​WECC-0142 ​WECC-0142: Request to Retire BAL-002-WECC-3, Contingency Reserve FERC Approved the Retirement of the Standard

Retirement is effective July 1, 2026

On 4/14/2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington D.C., published the following issuance:

Docket(s): RD26-5-000
Description: Letter order approving North American Electric Reliability Corporation's et al. 02/27/2026 filing of a joint petition seeking approval of retirement of Regional Reliability Standard BAL-002-WECC-3 etc. under RD26-5.