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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Texas RE's site visits will continue as it waits for the NERC cold-weather standards to become requirements.

U.S. companies may have to learn to live with ransomware attacks — even if that means paying ransom, speakers told California lawmakers.

In a new report, FERC and the ERO Enterprise detailed recommendations for utilities to improve the performance of their real-time assessments.

Members of SERC Reliability's Board of Directors approved the regional entity's 2022 budget and business plan on Thursday, along with a new regional standard.