Citing a looming FERC deadline, NERC's Board of Trustees voted once again to sidestep the normal standards development process to accelerate development of the ERO's cold weather standard.

NERC's trustees took action on a number of standards items, along with multiple organizational items, in the last board meeting of 2024.

NERC leadership is considering using its authority to streamline the development process on another standard, a member of the ERO's management said.

NERC's Board of Trustees voted to accept five new standards aimed at satisfying FERC's directive on inverter-based resources.

NERC's Board of Trustees is set to vote on a tranche of five proposed standards covering inverter-based resources, after PRC-029-1 passed its industry ballot last week.

NERC’s proposed reliability standard addressing IBR ride-through protection is undergoing a re-ballot in hopes of gaining enough industry support for passage as the ERO’s Board of Trustees prepares to meet.

NERC's Board of Trustees invoked its authority to accelerate standards development for the first time at this week's meeting in Vancouver.

Staff from NERC and the E-ISAC called the recent CrowdStrike outage a useful preview for potential future cyberattacks.

FERC commissioners urged NERC to continue its outreach efforts at a meeting that also saw the ERO's Board of Trustees approve several new CIP standards.

The NERC board approved a new reliability standard for extreme cold weather preparedness and operations that industry stakeholders previously rejected.