NERC CEO Jim Robb told GridSecCon attendees that maintaining cyber vigilance in the electric sector requires support from outside.

Speakers at the North American Generator Forum’s annual Compliance Conference acknowledged “the volume of [standards development] projects has increased over the last two years” at NERC.

The successor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission applauded government cybersecurity efforts but warned that adversaries are still hard at work.

The NERC Standards Committee elected Todd Bennett and Troy Brumfield as its new chair and vice chair, respectively.

The RTSC approved a whitepaper looking into the effects of distributed energy resources and their aggregations on the bulk power system.

WECC’s two-day annual member meeting featured an election to fill the board’s two top spots.

NERC is seeking comment on proposed changes to its Rules of Procedure intended to promote the registration of inverter-based resources.

FERC approved an agreement between SERC and Mississippi's Cooperative Energy stating the latter would pay no monetary penalty for violating NERC's reliability standards.

NERC and WECC warned that inverter-based resource performance remains an ongoing issue in the Western Interconnection.