Grid Reliability with NERC

Hosts Michael Bodnar and Courtney Stooksbury Parker return from a brief hiatus for a deep-dive episode on grid reliability, joined by two guests from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC): John Moura, Director of Reliability Assessment and Performance Analysis, and Sue Kelly, a member of NERC’s Board of Trustees (speaking in her individual capacity, not on NERC’s behalf).

Among other things, this conversation covers:

• NERC’s origins after the 2003 Northeast blackout and its relationship with FERC
• NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) and how it has evolved from simple supply-demand math to a more complex risk framework
• Natural gas fuel assurance and cold-weather generator standards