NERC issued a Level 2 alert calling on registered entities to report their readiness for severe cold after multiple winter crises in recent years.

NERC's 2021 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report highlights 11 key areas of risk for the electric industry and recommends a host of mitigating activities.

NERC's Board of Trustees and Member Representatives Committee voted to send two new reliability standards to FERC for approval.

A new Lessons Learned report from NERC details how a tropical storm led to equipment failures at a nearby substation — several days later.

NERC and the REs won't have large face-to-face meetings anytime soon because of the surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the more infectious delta variant.

ReliabilityFirst's Don Urban discussed NERC's new cold weather standards at this year's NAES-NERC conference, urging utilities to start implementation early.

SPP continues to spread its footprint with an announcement Tuesday that it will operate Northwest Power Pool’s resource adequacy (RA) program in the Western Interconnection. The RTO will work with NWPP and its RA participants to help develop, implement and operate the program. As a program operator, SPP will perform forward-showing and operations program functions, …

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Participants in a Friday press briefing warned that the current enthusiasm for addressing extreme weather and cybersecurity could be hard to sustain.

The near shutdown of the California-Oregon Intertie by a wildfire renewed concerns about the vulnerability of major transmission pathways.

Texas utility representatives warned that efforts to avert future extreme weather crises could falter as memories of February's cold snap fade.