FERC’s NOPR proposes to approve NERC’s CIP-003-11 standard to address the growing risk that coordinated cyberattacks on dispersed, low-impact bulk electric system (BES) cyber systems. “Individual low-impact BES Cyber Systems have less of an impact on bulk electric system reliability than medium or high-impact BES Cyber Systems and thus have fewer CIP Reliability Standard requirements. CIP-003-11 would require entities with low-impact BES Cyber Systems to:Authenticate all users prior to permitting access to networks containing low-impact BES Cyber Systems or shared cyber infrastructure;Protect authentication information while in transit; andDetect malicious communications to or between low-impact BES Cyber Systems with external routable connectivity. To what extent are prospective large load requests subject to consistent, objective screening criteria before they are included in the load forecast? How do you forecast how the actual electricity consumption of a large load will compare to its requested level of interconnection service?