As DERs play a growing role in electric reliability, ensuring their protection from cybersecurity threats has become increasingly vital, the Texas RE heard.

Gunfire caused more than $200,000 damage at two Idaho Power dams, the Justice Department said.

SERC leveled $42,000 in penalties against AECI for multiple longstanding violations of reliability standards in a settlement approved by FERC.

Utilities can learn as much from their close calls as from their accidents, presenters told ReliabilityFirst’s annual Human Performance Workshop.  

Developing transmission in the West should involve a long-term, comprehensive plan instead of a localized piecemeal approach, speakers agreed at a Western States Transmission Initiative webinar.

The New York Power Authority is greatly expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle program.

CalCCA is asking California regulators to reconsider a decision that blocks CCAs from expanding if they have had resource adequacy deficiencies in the past two years.

CAISO issued its first energy emergency alert of the summer after falling short on ramping capacity as solar output rolled off its system.  

ReliabilityFirst staff urged utilities to take advantage of the regional entity's voluntary winter preparedness consultations.