SERC Reliability's members and directors met in New Orleans to approve new leadership and a draft budget for 2026.

Industry stakeholders called for a number of revisions to NERC's proposed inverter-based resource ride-through standards, mostly involving the exemption process for legacy inverters.

Michael Ball, senior vice president and chief security officer at Berkshire Hathaway Energy, will replace Manny Cancel as CEO of the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

Entities reported three attempted cyber intrusions to the E-ISAC in 2024, and NERC said the incidents showed attackers are growing their capabilities.

Representatives of electric utilities and manufacturers provided feedback on proposed supply chain risk management standards at a workshop hosted by FERC and NERC.

Despite objections from some members, NERC's Standards Committee approved adding members to several standards development projects.

NERC's Standards Committee heard an update on the progress of the ERO's cold weather standard and efforts to develop guidance for trustees' next invocation of Section 321.

Industry commenters mostly supported NERC's draft cold weather standard, but several called for further revisions.

SERC Reliability's Long-Term Reliability Assessment projected four of the regional entity's seven subregions will fall below NERC's reference margin in the coming decade.

FERC approved two new standards outlining how entities must conduct energy reliability assessments to identify potential future emergencies.