Certain US inverter-based generating resources, including almost all solar and wind generators, that presently are not subject to federal operational reliability regulation will become regulated under a series of new orders released by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on November 17, 2022
The Informational Report NOPR just seeks information and does not require transmission providers to undertake vulnerability assessments where they do not already do so.
House Energy and Commerce Republicans pointed to NERC's recent assessment warning of potential outages this summer and probed the administration on their plan to address the problem.