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 Beginning Soon | The WSC accepted the Drafting Team Slate and Authorized the Drafting Team to begin work The Team will begin meeting the second half of January 2026 |
| WECC-0158 | WECC-0158: IRO-002-7, Reliability Coordination – Monitoring and Analysis with WECC Regional Variance, 5 Year Review | Drafting | Drafting | The WSC accepted the Drafting Team Slate and Authorized the Drafting Team to begin work The Team will begin meeting the second half of January 2026 |
| 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 will meet on January 14th 2026 to finish responding to comments from Comment Period 1 |
| 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 |