Despite the ongoing shift to renewables, the Eastern Interconnection has sufficient inertia to maintain system frequency for at least the next five years.

The ballroom at NERC’s Human Performance Conference was pin-drop quiet as Joseph W. Pfeifer recounted his experience leading firefighters into the World Trade Center on 9/11.

NERC offered lessons from firefighters, psychologists and the airline industry at its eighth annual Human Performance Conference.

FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur reflected on New England's electricity markets, and NERC CEO Jim Robb shared concerns about fuel security at the event.

NERC is considering changes to its Operations & Planning and Critical Infrastructure Protection standards as part of its Standards Efficiency Review.

NERC stakeholders want the organization to provide faster and more transparent enforcement, according to the results of the biennial ERO Enterprise Effectiveness Survey.

Assistant Energy Secretary Bruce Walker said the Department of Energy is planning a megawatt-scale “Storage Launchpad” that he predicted will cut the cost of energy storage dramatically.

Speakers at NERC’s biennial Reliability Leadership Summit talked about the impact of the new U.S. resource mix and distributed generation on the grid.

Brian Harrell, assistant director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, lamented the federal government’s tardy response to the security threat drones pose to utilities.

Physicist Mark P. Mills gave the NERC Leadership Summit a blistering & entertaining critique, saying a rapid shift from hydrocarbons is delusional.