About

Jill Loewer founded JCLoewer Consulting in 2025. She has worked in the NERC compliance field since 2009 as a Senior Operations & Planning Compliance Analyst, supporting generation (conventional, wind, and solar), transmission, and distribution provider utilities – both developing and maintaining their NERC compliance program. She has worked with utilities in the MRO, NPCC, RF, SERC, TRE, and WECC Regions and is familiar with ISO New England’s and ERCOT’s RTO programs.

Additionally, she has developed utilities’ internal controls programs; NERC 101 trainings; and assisted with compliance audits, spot checks, self certifications, self reports, and mitigation plan development. Throughout this time, she also served on several NERC Drafting Teams and Committees in support of the NERC process to enhance the reliability of the Bulk Electric System. This committee work included writing and editing NERC technical documents – Reliability Standard language, Technical Rationale, Implementation Guidance, and updates to NERC’s Standard Process Manual.

Member of the following NERC Standard Drafting Teams

    • NERC Project 2024-03: Revisions to EOP-012-2
    • NERC Project 2021-07 Extreme Cold Weather Grid Operations, Preparedness, and Coordination
    • NERC Project 2019-06: Cold Weather
    • NERC Project 2017-07: Standards Alignment with Registration Standards Authorization Request
    • NERC Project 2015-04: Alignment of Terms

Member of the following NERC Committees

    • NERC’s Standards Committee Process Subcommittee (2018 – 2025)
    • NPCC’s Compliance Committee (2011 – 2016)

Technical Document Development/Editing

    • NERC Extreme Cold Weather Temperature (ECWT) Implementation Guidance drafting (2025)
    • NERC Standards Process Manual (SPM) editing (2021)

Presentations

    • NERC Standard Drafting Team Industry Webinars (2024 – 2025)
    • Combustion Turbine Operations Technical Forum (CTOTF) (2021)

 

Jill holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine at Orono with a concentration in process control systems. Prior to her experience in the NERC arena, she worked at the Colgate-Palmolive Company as the Research & Development Packaging Lab Supervisor in Piscataway, NJ and with GE Plastics in several application engineering positions in Albany, NY; Atlanta, GA, and Pittsfield, MA.  She also worked as a freelance reporter for the Manchester Journal newspaper in Manchester Center, VT for ten years.