NERC & Committees
The North American Electric Reliability Corp., a not-for-profit authority, regulates reliability and security standards for the bulk power system in the continental U.S., Canada, and the northern portion of Baja California, Mexico. NERC is subject to oversight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and governmental authorities in Canada
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NERC's Board of Trustees and Member Representatives Committee voted to send two new reliability standards to FERC for approval.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NERC and the REs won't have large face-to-face meetings anytime soon because of the surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the more infectious delta variant.
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NERC's Standards Committee approved teams for several standard drafting projects, while ending one project pending further research.
EPRI
Safety culture, long seen as a corporate unicorn, can be created, a new EPRI study implies.
Texas RE
Texas RE's site visits will continue as it waits for the NERC cold-weather standards to become requirements.
California State Assembly
U.S. companies may have to learn to live with ransomware attacks — even if that means paying ransom, speakers told California lawmakers.
DOE
NERC has joined EPRI for a two-year effort aimed at updating the electric industry's resource adequacy infrastructure in response to a changing power grid.
Shutterstock
Both the E-ISAC and cybersecurity firm Dragos see their recently announced collaboration as just a stepping stone to future cyber intelligence partnerships.
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NERC's Standards Committee once again registered disapproval of a standard project team's response to industry feedback, but it stopped short of ending it.
FERC and NERC staff report
NERC's board approved standards requiring generators to protect their units against freezing and share their cold weather operating parameters.
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