FERC approved new rules intended to streamline NERC's reliability standard development process.

NERC's three-day GridEx exercise tested electric grid stakeholders on their response to a wide variety of threats.

Electric industry stakeholders discussed pressing threats to grid reliability at FERC's annual Reliability Technical Conference.

Avangrid's $615,000 penalty stems from violations of NERC's facility ratings standards.

NERC's Board of Trustees accepted the latest proposed cold weather standards, which will now be sent to FERC for final approval.

FERC OK'd the 2024 business plans and budgets for the ERO, though Commissioner James Danly called for “a significant improvement in … speed and agility.”  

Held every two years, the GridEx conference helps electric utilities and other stakeholders test and improve their security incident response plans.

NERC CEO Jim Robb told GridSecCon attendees that maintaining cyber vigilance in the electric sector requires support from outside.

Speakers at the North American Generator Forum’s annual Compliance Conference acknowledged “the volume of [standards development] projects has increased over the last two years” at NERC.