NERC Facts
The number of Board of Trustees members
12
Let the buyer beware
Caveat emptor
She wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress to the 2022 Met Gala
Kim Kardashian
19th Century inventor who contributed to the alternating current design that drives this Elon Musk-made vehicle
Nikola Tesla electric car
Capital of North Dakota
Bismarck
NERC was an acronym for this in 1968
National Electric Reliability Council
Anew
de novo
This Driver’s License singer won the 2022 Grammy for best new artist
Olivia Rodrigo
500 kV wire doing the electric slide
Transmission line dance
Host country of this year’s FIFA World Cup
Qatar
This yearly report identifies system performance trends and emerging reliability risks reports on the relative health of the interconnected system
State of Reliability Report
Guilty mind
mens rea
This sequel film became one of the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2022 despite the death of its star of the franchise’s first film
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Shopping for large amounts of items at Costco for the North American electric grid
Buy-in-Bulk Power System
This novel begins with the line: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
A Tale of Two Cities
The number of subcommittees, working groups, and task forces under the RSTC
23
At first face
prima facie
This team won the 2022 Super Bowl
Los Angeles Rams
The group of individuals eligible to vote on Reliability Standards at the ocean
Registered ballot body of water
This woman was the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her education rights work.
Malala Yousafzai
List the three standards that address (1) three-part communication, (2) facility ratings, and (3) physical access to BES Cyber Systems (current version number not required).
COM-002-4, FAC-008-5, and CIP-006-6
subpoena
FYP stands for this on TikTok
For you page
Positive perception of yourself while notifying the ERO that you believe you have, or may have, violated a Reliability Standard
The name of the effect that causes the sudden change in pitch of a sound, such as a passing ambulance siren.
Doppler effect