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 decided on sending a recommendation of “No Change” to the WSC
WECC-0158 WECC-0158: IRO-002-7, Reliability Coordination – Monitoring and Analysis with WECC Regional Variance, 5 Year Review Drafting Drafting The Team decided on sending a recommendation of “No Change” 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 WSC approved sending project out for industry Ballot

Anticipated for March 2026
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-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 The request for retirement of BAL-002-WECC-3 has been filed with FERC and assigned Docket No. RD26-5.