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DOE Touts Fossil Fuels’ Role in Meeting Peak Energy Demand This Winter
DOE's senior leadership highlighted how the grid relies on fossil fuels to make it through winter peaks.
FBI
FBI Releases Critical Infrastructure Cyber Recommendations
Through Operation Winter SHIELD, the FBI will share a different cybersecurity recommendation each week.
CISA
CISA Guidance Emphasizes Insider Threat Readiness
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released guidance to help critical infrastructure operators build insider threat management teams.
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
AEP, Springdale to Pay $180K in NERC Penalties
FERC approved two utilities' settlements with ReliabilityFirst for violations of NERC reliability standards covering protective relay settings.
AdminMonitor
ERCOT Leaned on Mobile Gens, RMR Unit During Storm
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
NERC Warns of ‘Worsening’ Resource Adequacy Through 2035
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.
Xcel Energy
Grid Weathers Latest Winter Storm but Still Faces Gas Coordination Problems
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.
Grzegorz W. Tężycki, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Dragos Blames Electrum Group for Poland Grid Cyberattack
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.
Shutterstock
Stakeholders Support Adopting NAESB Standards
Commenters expressed support for FERC's proposal to adopt standards on gas-electric coordination, while suggesting further measures to promote electric reliability.
Hydro-Québec
Hydro-Québec Halted NECEC Deliveries amid Reliability Concerns
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.

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