SPP said that its Board of Directors has created a Holistic Integrated Tariff Team (HITT) to take an all-encompassing look at the different challenges facing the RTO.

NERC said that it has appointed Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) chief Jim Robb as its new president and CEO, effective April 9.

Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee told NARUC that hackers targeting the U.S. electric industry are growing more numerous and more skilled.

The chairman of NERC’s Board of Trustees said the organization hopes to have a new CEO in place by the summer.

NERC’s Board of Trustees voted to dissolve the SPP Regional Entity by terminating the RTO’s regional delegation agreement.

SPP CEO Nick Brown told the RTO’s board and Members Committee that NERC is proposing it replace SERC as the compliance monitoring authority for the RTO.

SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved adding a major maintenance cost in mitigated start-up and no-load offers.

FERC on proposed to adopt several reliability standards intended to mitigate cybersecurity risks posed by the global supply chain of grid operation tools.

CAISO officials said they “reluctantly” plan for the ISO to become a reliability coordinator (RC) by spring 2019 and will depart from Peak Reliability.

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