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.

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

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

President Biden announced a cybersecurity initiative for U.S. critical infrastructure, building on one launched in April for the electric sector.

FERC Chair Richard Glick bobbed and weaved his way through a House oversight hearing as Republicans attempted to pin him to positions on natural gas.

NERC's Standards Committee approved teams for several standard drafting projects, while ending one project pending further research.

Safety culture, long seen as a corporate unicorn, can be created, a new EPRI study implies.

NERC and the ERO Enterprise have activated the second stage of the Align tool, which is expected to streamline compliance reporting across regions.

Interconnection queues across the country are bursting with requests from battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid power plants pairing storage with solar or wind. Because of their growing numbers and the differences in their operating characteristics from traditional synchronous generation, NERC issued a reliability guideline in March on the resources’ performance capabilities and how …

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