Avangrid's $615,000 penalty stems from violations of NERC's facility ratings standards.

NERC's MRC reviewed its efforts to improve effectiveness at its quarterly meeting.

MISO has agreed to pay an $815,000 penalty for a pair of NERC violations committed over the summer.

NERC's Board of Trustees accepted the latest proposed cold weather standards, which will now be sent to FERC for final approval.

FERC OK'd the 2024 business plans and budgets for the ERO, though Commissioner James Danly called for “a significant improvement in … speed and agility.”  

FERC issued a final rule Thursday directing NERC to develop standards to improve the reliability of inverter-based resources.  

Held every two years, the GridEx conference helps electric utilities and other stakeholders test and improve their security incident response plans.

Market monitors from all six FERC-jurisdictional ISO/RTOs endorsed calls for a NERC-like gas reliability organization.

NERC CEO Jim Robb told GridSecCon attendees that maintaining cyber vigilance in the electric sector requires support from outside.

The NYSRC Executive Committee approved the modeling assumptions for its 2024/25 installed reserve margin requirement study base case and discussed potential cap-and-invest updates.