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FERC Issues Order Approving IID Agreement Regarding 2011 Southwest Blackout

On August 7, 2014, in Docket No. IN14-7, FERC issued an order related to the 2011 Southwest Blackout.  The FERC's Office of Enforcement, NERC, and Imperial Irrigation District (IID) enter into a stipulation and consent agreement to resolve a non-public investigation conducted by the FERC's Office of Enforcement, with the Office of Electric Reliability and NERC, pursuant to Part 1b of the Commission's regulations and NERC's CMEP, into alleged violations of Reliability Standards by IID surrounding a system disturbance in the Pacific Southwest on September 8, 2011.

To view FERC’s order, click here.