SERC leveled $42,000 in penalties against AECI for multiple longstanding violations of reliability standards in a settlement approved by FERC.

FERC rejected a call for new physical security standards while clarifying its cybersecurity incentives order.

NERC’s Standards Committee moved forward on several standards projects, including ones on planning for extreme temperatures and providing information on DERs.

NERC and E-ISAC executive Manny Cancel testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee about cyber and physical threats to the North American power grid.

ReliabilityFirst staff urged utilities to take advantage of the regional entity's voluntary winter preparedness consultations.

FERC accepted NERC's clarification of several elements of the ERO's 2023 budget.

FERC said petitioners' call to overturn its approval of EOP-012-1 was outside the scope of the proceeding.

Six Exelon utilities have agreed to pay ReliabilityFirst $1.8 million for violating NERC's reliability standards.

Industry stakeholders expressed concern about the ERO's rising budgets and assessments in comments last week.