Speakers on a panel hosted by Texas RE said cooperation among Information Sharing and Analysis Centers is increasingly essential to weathering crises.

Electricity sector participants urged Congress to support cyber security programs as the House E&C Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy heard testimony on the efforts of nation-states and other actors to hack the bulk power system.

NERC and other commenters on two NOPRs supported the ERO's proposed changes to the critical infrastructure protection standards.

NERC’s Standards Committee unanimously agreed to reject a standard authorization request that would have exempted nuclear generators from the requirements of an event reporting reliability standard.

Participants in the upcoming GridEx VIII say the biennial exercise was not affected by the recently-ended government shutdown.

NERC's Member Representatives Committee heard progress reports from the groups developing updates to its standards development process and strategic plan.

NERC has filed five reliability standards to FERC, comprising the second of three sets of standards for inverter-based resources ordered by the commission.

FERC approved settlements with three utilities in the footprints of SERC Reliability and ReliabilityFirst, totaling $185,000 in penalties.

SERC Reliability claimed Entergy staff ignored multiple high-priority warnings, one of which led to a loss of load for several customers, in determining the $1.25 million penalty.

FERC staff warned in a report that third-party cloud services pose an ongoing risk to the security of the electric grid.