Consultant Terry Brinker warns about potentially hundreds of facilities being included in NERC's IBR rules, where fines and penalties can be as high as $1 million a day per violation.

A representative of Texas RE emphasized that NERC plans to build on last year's Interregional Transfer Capability Study.

NERC's monthly spreadsheet notice of penalty listed 22 infringements of facility ratings standards across multiple regions.

NERC's Standards Committee expects to have the latest version of the cold weather standard ready to post for a formal comment period by Jan. 27.

In its Winter Reliability Assessment, SERC Reliability said several of its subregions have high or elevated risk of energy shortfalls during extreme conditions.

Citing a looming FERC deadline, NERC's Board of Trustees voted once again to sidestep the normal standards development process to accelerate development of the ERO's cold weather standard.

A recent NERC report discussed the potential reliability challenges associated with load loss from data centers.

A new study from the Northeast Power Coordinating Council outlines some of the major risks that reliance on natural gas generation poses for the New England power system.

NERC has submitted for FERC's approval two standards that would require balancing authorities to perform regular energy reliability assessments.

NERC is calling on grid operators to prepare for extreme winter weather predicted in the first weeks of January.