Utilities and their regulators are becoming more comfortable with direct cooperation in response to disasters, panelists told NARUC's Summer Policy Summit.

NERC and the ERO Enterprise have activated the second stage of the Align tool, which is expected to streamline compliance reporting across regions.

Interconnection queues across the country are bursting with requests from battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid power plants pairing storage with solar or wind. Because of their growing numbers and the differences in their operating characteristics from traditional synchronous generation, NERC issued a reliability guideline in March on the resources’ performance capabilities and how …

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Texas RE's site visits will continue as it waits for the NERC cold-weather standards to become requirements.

The Midwest Reliability Organization said extremely hot temperatures will continue to be an area of concern for its planning coordinators through September.

The Senate unanimously confirmed former Morgan Stanley executive Jen Easterly as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

U.S. companies may have to learn to live with ransomware attacks — even if that means paying ransom, speakers told California lawmakers.

In a new report, FERC and the ERO Enterprise detailed recommendations for utilities to improve the performance of their real-time assessments.

A new report from FERC and the E-ISAC details the ongoing cost of last year's breach of the SolarWinds Orion platform, which affected thousands of companies.

Russian military intelligence has conducted a coordinated hacking campaign against hundreds of targets worldwide, according to a U.S. agency advisory.