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-0159 | WECC-0159: IRO-006-WECC-3 Qualified Path Unscheduled Flow (USF) Relief, 5 Year Review | Drafting | Drafting | The Team is scheduled to have its kickoff meeting January 29th 2026 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MST |
| WECC-0158 | WECC-0158: IRO-002-7, Reliability Coordination – Monitoring and Analysis with WECC Regional Variance, 5 Year Review | Drafting | Drafting | The Team will meet on February 4th 11:00 a.m. MST with the intent to vote a recommendation of "no change" be sent to the WSC |
| 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 | Drafting | The Drafting Team has finished responding to comments for Comment Period 1 and they are posted on the project page. The Drafting Team met on January 14th and finished comments and voted to ask the WSC for approval to Ballot the project with Industry |
| 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 | FERC Filing | Request to Retire is anticipated to be filed with FERC in January 2026 | NERC is targeting the week of January 18th to file the petition to retire the Regional Standard with FERC |