State regulators should establish standards to ensure the cybersecurity of DERs, experts said at NARUC's 2019 Summer Policy Summit.

NERC’s 13.3% spending increase to develop its cybersecurity capability is facing some pushback from multiple Canadian utilities.

NERC stakeholders have until 8 p.m. ET July 26 to weigh in on changes to reliability standard PRC-024-2 concerning inverter-based generation resources.

NARUC released a suite of tools to allow state regulators to gauge their utilities’ cybersecurity preparedness without becoming technical experts.

FERC called for reliability rules requiring generator owners to winterize units, citing a cold snap that caused MISO and SPP to seek load reductions.

Consolidated Edison blamed a failed relay protection system for the Manhattan blackout that affected about 72,000 customers.

An analysis by Eastern RTOs and utilities has found no advantages to changing how they measure primary frequency response.

SPP last week reiterated its plans to recover the costs of a NERC penalty for reliability violations by dipping into its employee compensation pool.

Panelists at FERC’s annual reliability technical conference praised NERC’s maturation but acknowledged challenges with the speed of standards development.

Registered entities asked FERC to clear the use of cloud computing, which they said could improve system visibility and security while saving money.