The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing NERC and its REs to continue adapting their policies in hopes of helping utilities cope with the outbreak.

Voting is underway through Nov. 4 to fill nine spots on NERC’s Standards Committee that are slated to open at the end of the year.

WECC’s Stakeholder Engagement Task Force has proposed making sweeping changes to the regional entity’s stakeholder group structure.

SERC Reliability’s Board of Directors has appointed its first three independent members following bylaw changes approved by FERC this year.

NERC is set to begin training entities on its new Align tool and Secure Evidence Locker by the end of the year, with MRO and Texas RE going first.

WECC will take an interconnection-wide approach as it analyzes the events from an August heat wave that prompted CAISO to initiate rolling blackouts.

DOJ brought criminal charges against six Russian intelligence officers believed to be involved in the cyberattacks against the Ukrainian grid.

The Texas PUC is terminating its reliability monitoring contract with Texas Reliability Entity for the ERCOT region.

Cyber hygiene and poor-quality modeling continue to head the list of major risks to the stability of the bulk power system.

FERC staff expressed confidence that the North American bulk power system has sufficient reserves to make it through the winter comfortably.