The NERC Standards Committee modified its CIP standards and unanimously approved a new SAR drafting team for Project 2020-06.

Staff will be allowed to return to WECC’s Salt Lake City office on a voluntary basis beginning April 5, CEO Melanie Frye said.

NERC's cold weather standards development team hopes to bring the standards before the Board of Trustees by June 11.

The Senate ENR Committee pressed NERC CEO Jim Robb and PJM CEO Manu Asthana for an explanation of the February winter storm and resulting outages in Texas.

SERC Reliability said that the use of video conferencing and other tech tools necessitated by the pandemic could result in streamlining future audits.

GAO urged FERC and the DOE to develop strategies for responding to increasing stresses on the electric grid from climate change.

More than half of the U.S. coal fleet could be retired by 2025 to reduce emissions and generating costs, with no harm to reliability, according to RMI.

NERC and the regional entities pushed back on FERC’s proposal to shorten the time between the organization’s performance assessments from 5 years to 3.

WECC found the southern portion of the Northwest Power Pool region could fail to meet resource adequacy requirements for 3 hours this year.

The cybersecurity lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic must not be forgotten as stakeholders return to normal operations, representatives from Texas RE warned.