NERC told FERC in its quarterly budget-to-actual variance report that it expects to end the year with a $1.4 million budget surplus.

NERC is projecting a total budget of $211.4 million for 2021, up 2.4% as it grapples with the uncertain economic conditions from the COVID-19 pandemic.

NERC’s Member Representatives Committee and Board of Trustees discussed funding for the ERO's Align project and how future meetings will be conducted.

Bruce Scherr, a former NERC vice chair and member of SPP’s Board of Directors, died on March 29.

NERC and utilities are enticed by the benefits of digital technologies, but must weigh the risks of unwanted guests, said panelists at an MRC meeting.

NERC is developing a framework for prioritizing known and emerging risks that it soon hopes to hand off to a key committee for further refinement.

NERC’s Board of Trustees approved the final slate of members for the new Reliability and Security Technical Committee, with its first meeting next month.

NERC’s Enterprise Effectiveness Survey will be discontinued after participants called the exercise “complicated, inefficient, ineffective and duplicative.”

Retiring NERC Trustee David Goulding recalled his time with the ERO, urging stakeholders to understand their own limitations and accept advice from others.

NERC’s trustees accepted the EMP Task Force's report but did not endorse the panel’s suggestions, saying it will consider them after reviewing comments.