ReliabilityFirst is 1 of 6 regional NERC-authorized companies charged with working with industry to ensure the survivalability of the high-voltage power grid.

The 2050 transmission study, Cape Cod curtailments and planning for geomagnetic disturbances were all on the agenda at the ISO-NE PAC meeting.

FERC and NERC continue to gather information from utilities, generators and grid operators on maintaining electric reliability during severe cold weather.

NERC's Standards Committee voted to move forward with five standards projects, with only two agenda items sparking any debate.

In a Lessons Learned report, NERC said a flood in a transmission substation could be a harbinger of similar events resulting from climate change.

PJM's Operating Committee approved a recommendation to evaluate the need to procure additional reliability-based generation as intermittent resources are added.

SERC identified three themes underlying the majority of violations relating to NERC's facility ratings standards in a report.

Steven Noess, NERC's director of regulatory programs, will join WECC as its new vice president of reliability and security oversight.

In a new report, NERC and WECC highlighted four solar power-related disturbances from last year and warned that such events are likely to occur more often.

Representatives from NERC and the federal government said that last year's GridEx VI has helped stakeholders prepare for the grid's current security threats.