Local brief
October 21, 2026: FERC’s reliability conference on the power grid runs until 2:40 p.m.
FERC docket AD26-8-000 is a Commissioner-led technical conference on reliability and security of the bulk-power system. It is Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. Eastern, at 888 First Street NE. No fee. It is not a rate case.
FERC will hold its annual Commissioner-led Reliability Technical Conference on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The second supplemental notice, issued September 9, 2026, in docket AD26-8-000, sets the hours at 10:00 a.m. to 2:40 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. On the Pacific clock that is 7:00 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. The room is the Kevin J. McIntyre Commission Meeting Room at 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. The conference is open to the public. There is no fee.
A technical conference is a public conversation. Commissioners and invited speakers talk about policy. It is not an open meeting where the Commission votes on orders, and it is not a rate case. Nobody’s electric bill changes because they sat in the room. The subject, in the notice’s words, is policy issues related to the reliability and security of the Bulk-Power System. That is the high-voltage power grid, not the wire on one street.
The first notice in this docket was June 11, 2026, and another was August 7, 2026. The September 9 notice says a further supplemental notice would come with more of the agenda. This brief does not invent panel names that are not in the September 9 notice and the Federal Register printing of it on September 14, 2026, document 2026-18773. If you need the latest agenda, check the calendar on ferc.gov before you travel.
Webcast help, the notice says, is (202) 502-8680 or customer@ferc.gov. Accessibility requests go to accessibility@ferc.gov, or 1-866-208-3372 (voice), or (202) 208-8659 (TTY). Staff contacts named in the notice are Lodie White, Lodie.White@ferc.gov, (202) 502-8453, and Michael Gildea, Michael.Gildea@ferc.gov, (202) 502-8420. The notice is signed by Secretary Debbie-Anne A. Reese.
Notice Nearby already has a paper on this conference at https://noticenearby.com/papers/october-21-ferc-reliability. This brief is the short public clock for the energy desk: the day, the hours, the room, the docket, and what the meeting is not. It does not replace the paper, and it is not a FERC order.
Source: the public notice on this register NN-2026-02721 · FERC second supplemental notice, AD26-8-000, September 9, 2026.
This is a Notice Nearby local brief — an in-house explainer written from a government-posted notice on this register. It is not official minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication.