A good audit report isn't enough to protect utilities from federal penalties after a reliability event, argues former NERC official Terry Brinker.

New England utilities updated the ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee on their plans to repair and upgrade their transmission facilities.

NERC is offering the 128 Southwest Power Pool (SPP) registered entities a chance to comment after assigning them all to a new Regional Entity.

NERC released its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment, urging preservation of “essential reliability services.”

The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) board of directors endorsed a new three-year operating plan for the organization.

Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer Marcus Sachs, one of seven direct reports to NERC’s CEO, resigned effective Nov. 27, the organization said.

FERC rejected the NERC request to eliminate public posting of self-reported compliance exceptions and to expand compliance exceptions.

NERC announced that its Board of Trustees has accepted the resignation of CEO Gerry Cauley following his arrest for domestic abuse.

About 6,500 participants from 450 organizations took part in GridEx IV, the NERC two-day simulated cyber and physical attack.

NERC CEO Gerry Cauley seems unlikely to return to his job if his estranged wife’s allegations are true.