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NERC's Standards Committee voted to end the ERO's standards grading initiative, which lay neglected for four years, along with a group intended to propose improvements to it.
A cybersecurity expert warned listeners at an MRO-sponsored webinar that powerful quantum computers could soon make dominant security technologies obsolete.
U.S. security agencies reported an escalation of attacks against critical infrastructure by Iranian threat actors since the beginning of the war in February 2026.
Speakers at a workshop hosted by Texas RE reminded attendees that compliance with NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards is not enough to ensure security.
NERC asked FERC to deny a request to mandate studies on the grid's vulnerability to electromagnetic pulses and solar storms, saying its current reliability standards are sufficient.
Representatives of Florida Power & Light urged fellow SERC Reliability members to start using artificial intelligence tools, even in their own personal lives, warning that its use on the grid is spreading too rapidly to not understand how it works.
FERC approved a settlement between Georgia Power and SERC Reliability that will see the utility pay $175,000 for violating NERC's reliability standards.
ENTSO-E's final report on the Iberian Peninsula blackout of April 2025 lays out the root causes and chain of events that led to the collapse of the grid, providing critiques of the numerous points of failure.
In a case of déjà vu, MISO announced that NERC is poised to issue a follow-up to its Long-Term Reliability Assessment that stands to lower the RTO’s reliability vulnerability from “high risk” to “elevated.”
NERC told FERC it only received a single report of a qualifying cybersecurity incident under reliability standard CIP-008-6.
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