Standards Under Development

This page includes the forms associated with the WECC Standards Under Development process and hyperlinks to the active projects. A WECC account is required to view data on this page. 

Project ID Project Phase Status Next Meeting
​​WECC-0000 ​​WECC-0000: WECC Standards Committee
WECC-0157 WECC-0157: PRC-006-5 Automatic Underfrequency Load Shedding, Update to the WECC Regional Variance Drafting Team Solicitation DT Forming Drafting Team member nominations are being solicited through July 18th 2025
WECC-0156 WECC-0156: VAR-001-5 Voltage and Reactive Control Modification to the WECC Regional Variance Complete Complete 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 Complete Complete 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) Complete Complete WECC Board of Directors approved for October 1, 2024 effective date.
​WECC-0149 ​WECC-0149: FAC-501 Revision Process to Augment WECC-0141 Complete Complete NERC Targets Board of Trustees for May 2024.​
​​WECC-0147 ​​WECC-0147 : BAL-004-WECC-3, ATEC Five-year Review with Focus on Requirement R1 Complete Complete FERC Approved BAL-004-WECC-4 on 4/23/2025
​WECC-0142 ​WECC-0142: Request to Retire BAL-002-WECC-3, Contingency Reserve Filed with NERC for their 45 day procedural posting Filed with NERC in July 2025 for NERC 45 day posting At the June WECC Board of Directors Meeting the Board accepted the WSC's recommendation to file a request with NERC and FERC that BAL-002-WECC-3 be retired.

The project was filed with NERC in July 2025.

NERC is targeting an early September posting with a target for adoption at the December NERC Board Meeting