North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)

NERC
Report: GridEx VIII Highlighted Areas for Improvement
NERC's report on the GridEx VIII security exercise outlined the challenges that participants weathered during the distributed play and executive tabletop.
NERC
NERC Says Violation Backlog Dropped in 2025
In their annual report, NERC's Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Program and Organization Registration and Certification Program said the ERO's backlog of violations dropped by nearly 50% in 2025.
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MISO, SPP CEOs Bet on Improved Interconnection Processes for AI Load
MISO’s and SPP’s CEOs are confident their interconnection queues will be up to the task of meeting new data center load once their respective special expedited lanes wind down.
FERC
FERC Declines to Suggest Interregional Transmission Requirements
FERC declined to suggest any minimum interregional transfer capability requirements in a report to Congress.
Colonial Pipeline
The Co-location Quandary: The Cybersecurity Risk to Nuclear
Opinion writer Shahid Mahdi worries about the cybersecurity risks of co-location, and asks if a co-located data center is hit with ransomware, does the nuclear plant have to trip offline?
PacifiCorp
FERC Approves Latest IBR Standards
FERC accepted five new reliability standards setting requirements for model validation and data sharing for inverter-based resources.
NERC
Members Seek Clarity on NERC Standard Committee’s Future
Standards Committee members asked for details on the committee's future after NERC's Board of Trustees approved sweeping changes to the standards development process.
Dragos
Dragos: Cyber Threats Rose Worldwide in 2025
The cybersecurity firm Dragos identified three new attack groups in its Year in Review report, while also sharing more concerns about a December cyberattack against Poland's electric grid.
The Century Foundation commentary with data from UC-CCP
Electricity Rates are the Political Livewire Threatening the Industry
Residential electricity bills have moved from being background noise in discussions about resource adequacy, decarbonization, and transmission expansion to being the loudest political and business risk, says Dej Knuckey.
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NERC Staff Outline Growing LTRA Challenges
NERC staff acknowledged recent criticisms of the 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment while describing the challenges of performing the analysis in recent years.

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