Standards & Programs

NERC Standard Drafting Teams Mulling Merger

January 21, 2021

The teams for two projects working to revise the same two NERC standards are considering how to merge their work after stakeholders expressed support for the idea. | Interior Department

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FERC Orders Follow-up NERC Cloud Filing

December 20, 2020

FERC Pushes Cybersecurity Incentives

December 17, 2020

Supply Chain Rules Increasing Costs

December 15, 2020

NERC Standards Committee Briefs: Dec. 9, 2020

December 9, 2020

3rd Comment Round Begins for AVR Standard Proposal

January 14, 2021

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

NOI Responses Describe Supply Chain Challenges

January 12, 2021

Industry participants support federal efforts to limit acquisition of foreign-manufactured hardware but warn that rooting it out of existing systems will be challenging.

FERC Approves $536K in Penalties from WECC, Texas RE

January 6, 2021

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

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FERC Orders Follow-up NERC Cloud Filing

FERC ordered NERC to make an informational filing on possible modifications to the critical infrastructure protection reliability standards to allow their use. | Shutterstock

FERC Pushes Cybersecurity Incentives

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

Supply Chain Rules Increasing Costs

Supply chain rules from NERC and the federal government are increasing costs and procurement cycles for utilities and technology vendors, cybersecurity experts said. | POWERGEN International

NERC Standards Committee Briefs: Dec. 9, 2020

NERC’s Standards Committee voted to reject the standard authorization request for Project 2020-01 after the drafting team declined to make any suggested changes to it. | © ERO Insider

RTOs, BPA Fear NAESB Rules Will Cut Tx

November 15, 2020

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

CIP Compliance: Don’t ‘Boil the Ocean’

November 12, 2020

After a three-month delay because of the pandemic, CIP-013-1 took effect, starting the 18-month compliance period for stakeholders. | Fortress Information Security

Overheard at SERC O&P Compliance Seminar

November 11, 2020

SERC held a two-day O&P compliance webinar, with discussions on operations under the coronavirus pandemic and recent enforcement trends. | SERC

GridEx VI Planning Begins

November 5, 2020

Planning has begun for GridEx VI, which will test response to a coordinated attack from a nation-state adversary. | NERC

NERC Board of Trustees/MRC Briefs: Nov. 5, 2020

November 5, 2020

NERC’s board and Member Representatives Committee will hold their first meetings of 2021 remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. | NERC

FERC Approves Standard Revisions, ERO Budgets

November 4, 2020

FERC accepted proposed revisions to seven NERC reliability standards, as well as the ERO Enterprise's business plans and budget for 2021. | NERC

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