The Midwest faces several new risks in 2023, including cybersecurity threats and supply chain issues, according to the MRO’s 2023 Regional Risk Assessment.

Incidents of deliberate physical damage to bulk power system facilities rose by 77% last year, driving home the danger posed by malicious actors, DOE said.

Gas-electric coordination is becoming the “Achille’s heel of the energy transition,” ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie told the NERC Reliability Leadership Summit.

FERC ordered NERC to require utilities to implement internal network security monitoring on certain cyber systems at bulk power system facilities.

The commission rejected a complaint by cybersecurity activist George Cotter, who last year accused NERC of neglecting the cybersecurity needs of the BPS.

Any new cyber incident reporting requirements for critical infrastructure must be drafted to avoid overlap with existing regulations, the ERO told CISA.

Stakeholders from across the ERO Enterprise gathered in New Orleans this week for the meeting of NERC’s Member Representatives Committee and Board of Trustees.

Pennsylvania regulators are reviewing the state’s cyber regulations for utilities, seeking to identify if they need to be revised to account for future threats.

At FERC’s annual reliability technical conference, commissioners focused on work needed to prepare the bulk power system for rapidly developing challenges.

NERC and the REs expressed support for FERC's proposal to incentivize voluntary cybersecurity investments, while urging it to also build on existing standards.