North American Electric Reliability Corp

Compliance monitoring and enforcement: this activity includes the process used to assess, investigate, evaluate, and audit in order to measure compliance with nerc reliability standards that are developed, adopted, and approved through the reliability standards development program and placed into effect pursuant to ferc orders or to applicable authorities in other north american jurisdictions.

Reliability assessment and performance analysis: this activity includes the analysis and reporting on the reliability and adequacy of the north american bulk power system, analysis of off-normal events, identification of root causes of events, assessment of past reliability performance for lessons learned, dissemination of findings and lessons learned to the electric industry to improve reliability performance, and development of reliability performance benchmarks.