FERC approved two utilities' settlements with ReliabilityFirst for violations of NERC reliability standards covering protective relay settings.

ERCOT says it leaned on Texas’ 15 mobile generating units and an RMR unit during the state’s first major cold-weather event since 2021’s disastrous Winter Storm Uri.

NERC's latest Long-Term Reliability Assessment projected more than half of all assessment areas will face high or elevated risk of energy shortfalls in the next 10 years.

The North American grid made it through the winter storm of Jan. 24-26 — dubbed “Fern” by The Weather Channel — relatively unscathed, but the cold weather gripping much of the U.S. and Canada continues, and cold snaps in the future will still stress the interconnected power and natural gas systems.

Cybersecurity firm Dragos has said a Russia-linked group was behind a recent attack on Poland's electric grid that targeted distributed energy resource control systems.

Commenters expressed support for FERC's proposal to adopt standards on gas-electric coordination, while suggesting further measures to promote electric reliability.

As extreme winter weather descended on the Eastern U.S. and Canada, Hydro-Québec suspended power exports to New England on the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line because of reliability concerns in Québec.

The winter storm that moved through Texas and much of the Eastern Interconnection cut power to hundreds of thousands of people and stressed the bulk power system, but did not create major disruptions like other storms earlier this decade.

Leaders of NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force presented their final recommendations ahead of the upcoming Board of Trustees meeting.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the department is ready to use its authority under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to dispatch backup generation from large customers if needed ahead of a major winter storm.