Utilities aren’t getting the “actionable” intelligence they need from the government to defend themselves against cyber threats, the head of the LPPC said.

Phase 2 of NERC’s Standards Efficiency Review has narrowed its focus to four tasks, tabling two others for potential work by other committees.

The Western Electricity Coordinating Council Board of Directors received a briefing on the Pacific Northwest’s early March price spike.

NERC CEO Jim Robb returned to his former workplace at the WECC last week for the first time since he took the nation’s top reliability job 15 months ago.

NERC hosted a webinar on lessons learned from substation fires, with several utility representatives recounting their own experiences.

FERC expanded NERC’s cyber incident reporting requirements, closing what it said was a gap in the CIP reliability standards.

NERC is investigating Chinese ties to the vendor it selected for a high-profile software project, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council learned.

NERC called for developing metrics on resilience and urged continued efforts to respond to increased cyber threats and growth in asynchronous generation.

The increasing number of billion-dollar wildfires, floods and hurricanes had some at EEI2019 suggesting an end to the universal service model.

California’s annual wildfire season kicked off with high winds, a heat wave and precautionary power shutoffs by PG&E to thousands of customers.