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.
NERC
NERC’s Standards Committee kept up momentum on the organization’s efforts to harden the electric grid against extreme cold.
FERC
FERC ordered two new NERC reliability standards in response to the February 2021 winter storm that nearly led to the collapse of the Texas Interconnection.
FERC
The sixth meeting of the Joint Federal State Task Force on Transmission focused on securing the grid against physical attacks.
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NERC's Manny Cancel and FERC's Joseph McClelland discussed the state of grid security at NARUC on Sunday.
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NERC and the regional entities called FERC’s proposal for new reliability standards focused on inverter-based resources “complementary" to ERO Enterprise work.
WBAL-TV
Federal officials charged a Neo-Nazi leader and an associate with plotting to attack electric substations in Baltimore in hopes of triggering cascading outages.
FBI
Incidents of deliberate physical damage to bulk power system facilities rose by 77% last year, driving home the danger posed by malicious actors, DOE said.
TVA
FERC has decided to let stand SERC Reliability’s $75,000 penalty against Duke Energy Florida for violating NERC reliability standards.
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SERC Reliability levied penalties against Dominion Energy subsidiary Virginia Electric and Power for violations of NERC reliability standards.
NERC
Gas-electric coordination is becoming the “Achille’s heel of the energy transition,” ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie told the NERC Reliability Leadership Summit.
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