PJM will pay $140,000 to ReliabilityFirst as part of a settlement for violations of NERC reliability standards at several facilities, including 2 nuclear sites.

NERC's Operating Committee approved several guidance documents during its two-day meeting in Orlando, the last for outgoing Chair Lloyd Linke.

A NERC standards drafting team has opened a final ballot on the elimination of all or parts of 18 reliability standards as Phase 1 of the organization’s standards efficiency review nears its conclusion.

FERC called for two changes to NERC’s draft CIP standard governing the security of communications between control centers.

NERC is considering changes to its Operations & Planning and Critical Infrastructure Protection standards as part of its Standards Efficiency Review.

PJM’s Operating Committee endorsed manual revisions in spite of FirstEnergy's challenge to the formula for judging primary frequency response performance.