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April 16, 2025

Regional Entities

Texas RE
Texas RE Offers Compliance Help for New Registrants
Presenters at a Texas RE webinar focused on helping newly registered entities with the most frequently seen violations among utilities in similar circumstances.
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West’s Mounting Challenges Require Increased Coordination, Panelists Say
Regional initiatives aimed at increasing coordination and collaboration among power entities in the West are essential to tackle mounting technical and political challenges, panelists said during a discussion at the spring joint CREPC-WIRAB meeting.
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CAISO CEO, Others Point to Reliability Aspect of BPA’s Market Decision
BPA's day-ahead market decision will have “major reliability and affordability impacts” on electricity customers in the Northwest and across the West, CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer told the ISO’s Board of Governors
NOAA
Meteorologist Warns Climate Bringing Multiple Grid Impacts
DHS meteorologist Sunny Wescott warned that utilities will need to be prepared for global climate change to bring a range of issues they may have never considered before.
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SERC Members/Board of Directors Meetings Briefs: March 26, 2025
SERC Reliability's members and directors met in New Orleans to approve new leadership and a draft budget for 2026.
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Dragos Outlines Voltzite Electric Utility Breach
A new report from cybersecurity firm Dragos describes the first known attack of the hacker group Voltzite against a U.S. electric utility and the company's response.
SERC
SERC Projects Shrinking Margins in Next Decade
SERC Reliability's Long-Term Reliability Assessment projected four of the regional entity's seven subregions will fall below NERC's reference margin in the coming decade.
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Former BPA Leaders Again Protest Workforce Cuts
Former BPA Administrators collaborated on a public letter distributed in the Pacific Northwest about the “tremendous risk being created” in the region by workforce reductions at the federal agency.
ReliabilityFirst
FERC Approves $420K in Penalties for RF Utilities
FERC approved settlements between ReliabilityFirst and two separate utilities in its footprint for violations of NERC reliability standards.
BLM
IBR Lessons Can Guide Data Center Challenges, WECC Report Finds
With data centers already causing “major disturbances” on the grid, the industry could learn lessons from the recent growth and implementation of IBRs, according to a new Elevate Energy Consulting study.

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