ERCOT stakeholders, while raising concerns over the grid operator’s use of conservative operations, have endorsed staff’s recommendations for computing minimum ancillary service quantities for 2026.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to post two inverter-based resource-related standard authorization requests for industry comment at its monthly meeting.

NERC's trustees approved next year's budgets while urging stakeholders to continue collaborating with the ERO as the industry faces an ever-growing set of challenges.

NERC's new standards aim to satisfy FERC's directive to develop reliability requirements for inverter-based resources.

NERC will begin registration of Category 2 IBRs within the next few months, according to the ERO.

FERC approved two new reliability standards mandating voltage and frequency ride-through requirements for inverter-based resources.

NERC released an industry survey on emerging security risks to the grid, along with material helping owners of inverter-based resources register with the ERO.

NERC Chief Engineer Mark Lauby said the North American grid already has measures in place to prevent the mishaps that led to April's blackout in Spain and Portugal.

Analysis from a Grid Strategies expert indicates that the issues that caused the Iberian Peninsula blackout are unlikely to occur in the U.S.

At the quarterly meeting of NERC’s Reliability and Security Technical Committee, NERC Chief Engineer Mark Lauby reminded members that the industry is facing “a busy time” dealing with the growing number of risks to grid reliability.