Reliability Standards Under Development
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The Reliability Standards Under Development page provides access to all projects including: Reliability Standards, Standard Authorization Requests, Periodic Reviews, and Interpretations.

Once Reliability Standard(s) are adopted by the NERC Board of Trustees and filed with FERC, the associated project is moved to the Archived Reliability Standards Under Development page and the Reliability Standard(s) are updated throughout the website including US Reliability Standards, the Complete Set of Reliability Standards and Align allowing for updates to the US Effective Date Status Functional Applicability site.

Prioritization
NERC Standards Projects have been increasing in quantity; coinciding with the increasing pace of technology changes in our industry and the issuance of FERC directives. The high priority projects listed below will be completed in 2024. The medium and low priority projects will have completion dates of 2025 and beyond.

FERC Order No. 901, Inverter-based Resource (IBR), and Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
FERC Order 901 was issued under Docket No. RM22-12-000 on October 19, 2023 and includes many directives instructing NERC to modify or create new Reliability Standards that will address a variety of IBR-related issues. Multiple NERC Standards Projects will be developed through 2026 that are associated with these directives. Detailed information and updates will be maintained on this page and within each associated Standards Project.

NERC Standards Development Work Plan to Respond to FERC Order No. 901 Pending

Frequently Asked Questions for IBR/DER related Standards Projects Pending

Links to most recent NERC Standards Development Joint Webinar on Milestone 2 of NERC's 901 work plan:
Webinar Recording and Slides Pending

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*Denotes Inverter-based Resources and distributed energy resource projects in the tables below

Reliability Standards Under Development
High Priority - Completed by 2024
​2016-02 Modifications to CIP Standards - CIP-002, CIP-003, CIP-004, CIP-005, CIP-006, CIP-007, CIP-008, CIP-009, CIP-010, CIP-011, CIP-012-1
​2020-02 Modifications to PRC-024 (Generator Ride-through)​*
2020-06 Verificati​ons of Models and Data for Generators*​ ​(IBR Definitions Only)
​​2021-03 CIP-002​
​2021-04 Modifications to PRC-002-2​*
​​2022-03 Energy Assurance with Energy-Constrained Resources​
​​2023-02 Analysis and Mitigation of BES Inverter-Based Resource Performanc​e​ Issues​*
​2023-03 Internal Network Security Monitoring (INSM)​
​2023-04 Modifications to CIP-003​
​2023-06 CIP-014 Risk Assessment Refinement​​​
​​2023-07 Transmission System Planning Performance Requirements for Extreme Weather​​
​​​​Medium Priority - Completed By 2025 and Beyond
2021-01 Modifications to MOD-025 and PRC-019​*
2023-01 EOP-004 IBR Event Reporting​*
2023-09 Risk Management for Third-P​ar​ty Cloud Services​
​​​​​​​​Low Priority
​2017-01 Modifications to BAL-003 Phase II​
2019-04 Modifications to PRC-005-6
2021-02 Modifications to VAR-002​-4.1​*
​2021-08 Modifications to FAC-008​
​2022-02 Modifications to TPL-001-5.1 and MOD-032-1​*
2022-04 EMT Modeling​*
​2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold​
​2023-05 Modifications to FAC-001 and FAC-002​ *​
​2023-08 Mod​ifications of MOD-031 Demand and Energy Data​
​​​​Standard Processes Manual​
2023 Standard Processes Manual Revisions to Address SPSEG Recommendations​​​
​Interpretations
None at this time
Projects in Informal Development
None at this time​
Projects Under Consideration for Development
None at this time​
​Periodic Review Projects
No​ne at this time​
Pro​jects Under Research
 ​None at this time​

​​​​​​​​​​​Standards Under Field Test
​​​None at this time​

Continent-wide and Regional Standards Waiting for Board Adoption
 None at this time