ReliabilityFirst staff urged utilities to take advantage of the regional entity's voluntary winter preparedness consultations.

NERC's Finance and Audit Committee approved a plan to fund the interregional transfer study that Congress ordered in June.

NAESB is wrapping up a process to develop recommendations to improve coordination between the natural gas and electric industries, which needs to be improved after it contributed to recent cold weather reliability events.

FERC accepted NERC's clarification of several elements of the ERO's 2023 budget.

FERC said petitioners' call to overturn its approval of EOP-012-1 was outside the scope of the proceeding.

Six Exelon utilities have agreed to pay ReliabilityFirst $1.8 million for violating NERC's reliability standards.

Industry stakeholders expressed concern about the ERO's rising budgets and assessments in comments last week.

NERC found that the bulk power system was generally reliable and resilient in 2022, but forced outages among coal and natural gas plants hit their highest level in the decade.

A whitepaper on a pressing matter — managing battery systems connected to the grid — bogged down in a debate over its details as NERC’s Reliability and Security Technical Committee met Wednesday.

The Western summer reliability outlook is better than in recent years, but shortfalls could arise because of supply chain problems or scarce imports, WECC says.