Energy Sec. Dan Brouillette named Alexander Gates to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response.

The Texas Reliability Entity will co-host GridSecCon 2020 in Houston with NERC’s Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

NERC asked FERC for more time to revise its Rules of Procedure to address concerns raised in response to the five-year performance assessment.

Preliminary findings from a WECC study indicate inclusion of day-ahead trading in the EIM will yield reliability benefits that outweigh any expected risks.

FERC issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking industry comments on the “potential benefits and risks” posed by virtualization and cloud computing services.

NERC’s Performance Analysis Subcommittee is preparing a request to expand GADS to cover solar and increase the range of data.

NERC cast 2019 as a “true pivot point” for the ERO Enterprise in its annual report, noting initiatives aimed at improving the organization's effectiveness.

NERC transitioned to the latest version of SAFNR and plans to introduce it to reliability coordinators once ResilientGrid has implemented new software.

Cybersecurity and reliability were the subject of discussions at NARUC's Winter Policy Summit, with NERC CEO Jim Robb previewing a report on GridEx V.

State regulators endorsed IEEE’s updated standard on the interconnection and interoperability of DERs at their annual winter policy meeting in D.C.