Regional Reliability Standards

Regional entities may develop regional criteria that are necessary to implement, to augment, or to comply with reliability standards, but which are not reliability standards. Regional criteria may also address issues not within the scope of reliability standards.

Regional criteria may include specific acceptable operating or planning parameters, guides, agreements, protocols or other documents used to enhance the reliability of the regional bulk power system. These documents typically provide benefits by promoting more consistent implementation of the NERC reliability standards within the region.

These documents are not NERC reliability standards, regional reliability standards, or regional variances, and therefore are not enforceable under authority delegated by NERC pursuant to delegation agreements and do not require NERC approval.

NERC maintains a current catalog of regional reliability criteria for each regional entity, please see the menu links for more information.