FERC & Federal
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is an independent regulatory agency that oversees the transmission of electricity, natural gas and oil in interstate commerce, as well as regulating hydroelectric dams and natural gas facilities.
Considerable work is needed from all industry stakeholders in order to properly appreciate resilience's value, according to a recent white paper from EPRI.
Ensuring grid resilience is “one of the most urgent tasks in the energy sector,” NASEO told Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
February’s Texas outages signal a need for an examination of the electric grid, members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee heard.
Electric distribution systems carrying energy to end consumers are vulnerable to cyberattacks, but a new report says these risks are “not fully” addressed.
FERC threw out a complaint by activist group CGNP against that sought to stop the closure of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Power Plant.
FERC approved revisions to three of NERC’s critical infrastructure protection reliability standards, submitted under Project 2019-03.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee requested an update from heads of several federal agencies on their response to last year’s SolarWinds cyberattack.
The Senate ENR Committee pressed NERC CEO Jim Robb and PJM CEO Manu Asthana for an explanation of the February winter storm and resulting outages in Texas.
GAO urged FERC and the DOE to develop strategies for responding to increasing stresses on the electric grid from climate change.
More than half of the U.S. coal fleet could be retired by 2025 to reduce emissions and generating costs, with no harm to reliability, according to RMI.
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