James Merlo, one of NERC’s most high-profile executives, abruptly left the organization last month, the latest of senior staff changes under CEO Jim Robb.

Lawyers' roles in ensuring utilities' cybersecurity was the topic of a panel discussion at last week's Energy Bar Association Mid-Year Forum in D.C.

FERC’s fourth round of Critical Infrastructure Protection audits still found room for improvement, with a commission report listing seven “lessons learned.”

FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee accused Commissioner Richard Glick of seeking to politicize commission staff’s Winter Energy Market Assessment.

SoCal Edison came under increasing scrutiny for its possible role in starting the Saddleridge Fire, while PG&E defended its public safety power shutoffs.

A NERC publication aims to cover inverter-based resource interconnections that fall between the distribution system and the bulk electric system threshold.

ERCOT CEO Bill Magness and Texas PUC Chair DeAnn Walker will attend NERC’s Board of Trustees meeting to discuss the grid operator’s slender reserve margins.

PG&E restored power to 738,000 customers after its public safety power shutoffs prompted a backlash from the public, state regulators and elected officials.

As roughly 600,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers remained without power, the president of the California PUC called the situation “unacceptable.”

The NRC briefed FERC on its plans to replace its time-intensive inspections of licensees’ cybersecurity plans with a more “risk-informed” approach.