President Joe Biden has suspended a Trump administration rule that restricts the purchase of bulk power system equipment from foreign adversaries.

The teams for two projects working to revise the same two NERC standards are considering how to merge their work after positive stakeholder feedback.

NERC opened a third formal comment period on the standard authorization request for Project 2019-04 following revisions by the drafting team.

Industry participants support efforts to limit acquisition of foreign-manufactured hardware but warn that removal from existing systems will be challenging.

FERC approved a penalty assessed by WECC against Southern California Edison and a penalty by Texas RE against Oncor for violations of NERC standards.

FERC ordered NERC to make an informational filing on possible modifications to the CIP reliability standards to allow their use.

FERC proposed incentives to encourage public utilities to make cybersecurity investments above and beyond the requirements of NERC’s CIP standards.

Supply chain rules from NERC and the federal government are increasing costs and procurement cycles for utilities and technology vendors.

NERC’s Standards Committee rejected the standard authorization request for Project 2020-01 after the drafting team made no suggested changes.

Commenters generally back FERC’s proposal to approve new NAESB standards for transmission but urged it to reject two replacement rules.