FERC has agreed to NERC's request to defer the implementation of seven reliability standards scheduled to take effect this year.

FERC rejected a complaint by MISO’s Independent Market Monitor that PJM’s pseudo-tie requirement for external capacity resources is unjust and unreasonable.

Utilities must prepare for the reliability challenges that increased penetration of inverter-based resources will pose, according to a NERC white paper.

A proposed update to the requirements for system operating limits will open for a 45-day comment period and formal ballot period beginning April 23.

The release of NERC’s Align software project has been pushed back again, from this year to the first quarter of 2021.

Members of NERC’s Performance Analysis Subcommittee questioned the exclusion of severe weather events from the ERO's annual State of Reliability report.

NERC has requested FERC delay the implementation of several reliability standards that are scheduled to take effect this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bob Cummings, NERC’s senior director of engineering and reliability initiatives, has retired from the organization after 24 years, NERC said.

FERC has extended the implementation deadline for the latest version of NAESB's standards to July 27, 2021, at the request of SPP and MISO.

NERC is confident the electric industry is “taking aggressive steps to confront” the COVID-19 pandemic, based on responses to its recent Level 2 alert.