NERC’s Standards Committee moved forward on several standards projects, including ones on planning for extreme temperatures and providing information on DERs.

NERC and E-ISAC executive Manny Cancel testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee about cyber and physical threats to the North American power grid.

ReliabilityFirst staff urged utilities to take advantage of the regional entity's voluntary winter preparedness consultations.

NERC's Finance and Audit Committee approved a plan to fund the interregional transfer study that Congress ordered in June.

NAESB is wrapping up a process to develop recommendations to improve coordination between the natural gas and electric industries, which needs to be improved after it contributed to recent cold weather reliability events.

FERC accepted NERC's clarification of several elements of the ERO's 2023 budget.

FERC said petitioners' call to overturn its approval of EOP-012-1 was outside the scope of the proceeding.

Six Exelon utilities have agreed to pay ReliabilityFirst $1.8 million for violating NERC's reliability standards.

Industry stakeholders expressed concern about the ERO's rising budgets and assessments in comments last week.