FERC Said that the electric transmission system needs more protections against geomagnetic disturbances like the 1989 solar storm that caused the collapse of the Hydro-Quebec grid.

Storms provided challenges, but a bounty of cheap natural gas brought consumers lower prices, PJM officials said at the Annual Meeting Year in Review.

Natural gas’ growing role in electric generation was a recurrent theme at PJM’s annual meeting. Keynote speakers included Michael Levi and Steven Mueller.

Last month’s audit of PJM’s adherence to Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards may result in up to four potential violations, PJM officials told...

The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) issued $9.2 million in fines for violations of its cybersecurity rules between 2008 and October 2012, ha...

By Rich Heidorn Jr PJM Insider The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave final approval Thursday to NERC’s revised definition of the “Bulk Electric Syst...

CIP version 5 is comprised of 10 standards, one covering the categorization of assets and nine mitigating their risk of being compromised. Categorization of ...

I1 - Transformers with the primary terminal and at least one secondary terminal operated at 100 kV or higher unless excluded under Exclusion E1 or E3. I2 ...

NERC’s version 5 Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) rules include 10 standards, two of them new. The commission’s conditional approval of version 5 ca...

The Commission approved criteria for determining which NERC activities are eligible for cost recovery under section 215 of the Federal Power Act. Reason for ...