Leading Compliance Issues in a Rapidly Changing Industry

MRO’s Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program (CMEP) Advisory Council was pleased to host the 2024 CMEP Conference at the Westin Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center and virtually by Webex. This one-day event highlighted leading compliance issues in a rapidly changing industry and included speakers from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Timely topics related to compliance monitoring, standards development, and enforcement were the focus.

Key Agenda Topics

• FERC Overview and Current Issues: Good Compliance Practices and Recent Enforcement
• NERC Standards Development: Status, NERC Project Prioritization
• Future Enforceable Reliability Standards: Project 2021-07 Extreme Cold Weather Grid Operations, Preparedness, and Coordination
• Entities’ approach to New/Revised Standards Implementation (Panel)
• Entities’ Approach to Risk and Controls (Panel)
• Readiness Assessment Update:  EOP-012 Extreme Cold Weather Preparedness and Operations
• Life Cycle of a Violation: MRO Compliance, RAM, and Enforcement
• Requirement-Specific Request for Information (RFI) CMEPAC Initiative: Status Update