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.

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.

Members of SERC Reliability's Board of Directors approved the regional entity's 2022 budget and business plan on Thursday, along with a new regional standard.

NERC's Standards Committee once again registered disapproval of a standard project team's response to industry feedback, but it stopped short of ending it.

Cybersecurity firm Dragos has partnered with NERC's E-ISAC for an initiative to spread up-to-date cyber threat intelligence across the electric grid.

NERC's board approved standards requiring generators to protect their units against freezing and share their cold weather operating parameters.

FERC accepted penalties against a number of entities, including Entergy and the Tennessee Valley Authority, for violations of NERC reliability standards.

NERC has introduced a guide to help integrate network monitoring solutions into the ICS and OT networks of electric utilities.