Responses Due This Week on NERC Alert Related to Large Load Interconnection January 27, 2026 NERC, its Regional Entities, and registered entities have analyzed a series of recent bulk power system (BPS) disturbances that resulted in widespread, customer-initiated load reductions from large loads. Read More
Addressing Misoperations Risk Through Data Quality, Outreach, and Collaboration January 27, 2026 As 2025 has ended, MRO’s Reliability Performance team is reflecting on a year marked by focused, collaborative efforts to better understand and reduce protection system misoperations across the region. Read More
ERO Enterprise Endorses Implementation Guidance for Standard TPL-001-5.1 (Trip Circuit Monitoring) January 22, 2026 The ERO Enterprise endorsed Implementation Guidance for TPL-001-5.1 Trip Circuit Monitoring in November 2025. The guidance document was prepared by the NERC System Protection and Control Working Group (SPCWG) to serve as a reference… Read More
A New Approach for the New Year: Lead with “Thank You” January 22, 2026 I listened in on an MRO Board meeting recently where board members thanked each other for the great work done during the year, and it got me thinking… Read More
Generator Owner and Generator Operator IBR Primer Document Available December 18, 2025 MRO is committed to advancing the ERO Enterprise Inverter-Based Resource (IBR) Risk Mitigation Strategy. In support of NERC’s Invert-Based Resource Registration Initiative and the four IBR Risk Mitigation Strategy tenets… Read More
Holiday Greetings from Midwest Reliability Organization December 15, 2025 To the stakeholders, staff, and colleagues that are so important to our success, may your holidays, however they are spent, bring you peace, good health, and happiness! Our future is… Read More
New Visual Tools Explain How Cold Weather Impacts Power Generation December 15, 2025 To help the industry learn from past winter outage events, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Failure Modes and Mechanisms Working Group (FMMWG) recently released two new visual charts that explain how both wind turbines and gas fired generators can fail during cold weather. Read More
GridEx VIII: New Tools, More Players, and Options for Every Sized Utility December 11, 2025 Many of you participated in this year’s GridEx VIII, the E-ISAC’s biennial electric sector exercise that tests response and recovery from coordinated cyber and physical attacks across the bulk power system. The exercise includes electric utilities, government entities, and other critical infrastructure partners. Read More