North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC)
NERC is taking comments on a winter reliability standard for generators that has failed to clear its stakeholder process twice.
NERC issued a warning to the electric industry to expect serious challenges amid expected severe winter weather.
FERC approved a $40,000 penalty against multiple Duke Energy facilities for violations of NERC reliability standards.
The Department of Energy is seeking recipients for up to $70 million of investments into energy resilience.
A report by FERC, NERC and Texas RE focused on the risk of natural gas disruptions to utilities' black-start restoration plans.
FERC's latest Critical Infrastructure Protection audits produced only four recommendations, the fewest of any year since the program's inception in 2016.
NERC's Standards Committee agreed to authorize a reduced ballot period for a twice-rejected proposed reliability standard.
NERC's Long-Term Reliability Assessment sees some risk for reliability issues in most of the country as the industry has to deal with faster demand growth and shifting supplies of generation.
If NERC’s latest proposed cold weather standard fails another ballot round, the ERO’s Board of Trustees may have to take matters into its own hands, Chair Ken DeFontes warned at the board’s quarterly meeting.
As the transition to clean energy contributes to the risk of energy shortfalls, electric industry stakeholders say keeping the grid operating reliably will require new ways of thinking.
Want more? Advanced Search










