NERC staff had to "hit the ground running" after the Board of Trustees ordered a technical conference on inverter-based resource standards, the Standards Committee heard.

Members of NERC’s Standards Committee debated qualifications for standard drafting team participation at their monthly conference call, with the discussion extending the meeting more than a half-hour over its planned end time.

NERC's Board of Trustees invoked its authority to accelerate standards development for the first time at this week's meeting in Vancouver.

Staff from NERC and the E-ISAC called the recent CrowdStrike outage a useful preview for potential future cyberattacks.

In a report, NERC said registered entities’ cyber and physical security postures have room for improvement in four key areas.

NERC plans to create a task force to address the reliability risks posed by growing adoption of electric vehicles.

NERC CEO Jim Robb discussed several emerging challenges to the grid at the WIRES Summer Meeting in Boston.

A new report from NERC and the National Academy of Engineering explored the shortcomings of traditional resource adequacy metrics and alternatives under development.

NERC filed its performance assessment with FERC last week, highlighting its accomplishments over the last five years as ERO.

The 11 new standards are intended to allow for safe adoption of new technologies on the electric grid.