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The Reliability Panel's Template for Compliance Programs replaces the 2019 Template for Generator Compliance Programs — the document most compliance programs in service today were built against. It was published on 30 July 2026 and applies from 27 August 2026. Compliance programs must be consistent with it by 27 February 2027. This is a rewrite, not a refresh. Here's what actually moved. What changed structurally 2019 2026 Title Template for Generator Compliance Programs Template for...

Here's a scenario every asset manager will recognise. The OEM pushes an inverter firmware update — improved fault ride-through logic, better harmonic performance, routine stuff. It's applied across the site during a maintenance window. Operationally, nothing skips a beat. Under the Template for Compliance Programs, that update is a compliance event. In fact it's the Template's own worked example — Chapter 3 uses an inverter control system update to illustrate exactly this category of change....

Principle 2 of the Template for Compliance Programs contains a sentence we think will reshape how the NEM approaches compliance: continuous plant monitoring is the preferred approach, where practicable — and where it isn't implemented, a Registered Participant must document its reasons and put alternative regimes in place that still provide reasonable assurance. That's a monitor-or-explain regime. And it reflects where the power system has genuinely landed. What happened to the Notes column....