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By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — NERC CEO Jim Robb said Thursday he sees no "appetite" among policymakers for expanding the organization’s authority despite rising concerns over the visibility of distributed energy resources. NERC CEO Jim Robb speaking Thursday at the agency's biennial Reliability Leadership Summit at the Mayflower Hotel...
By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — Compared to the rancor often on display when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee discusses topics like climate change or grid resilience, Thursday’s hearing on preventing cyberattacks on the bulk power system (BPS) was less partisan, with senators soberly asking informational questions. That was,...
Counterflow Reliability Standards, Costs and Benefits, Fox-Henhouse Regulation By Steve Huntoon I want to begin with a note about FERC Commissioner Kevin McIntyre’s passing. He and I (and my wife) worked together for years at the law firm Reid & Priest. He was a talented attorney and an all-around...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. A Government Accountability Office report on geomagnetic disturbances released last week found a lack of consensus on how much of a risk they pose to the U.S. electric grid, in part because of limited modeling capabilities. GMDs, which occur when the sun ejects charged particles that...
By Tom Kleckner FERC on Monday denied SPP’s request for waivers from regulations guiding the confidential treatment of information in its explanation of how it allocated costs related to a NERC fine, the amount of which has not been publicly disclosed because of grid security concerns (ER19-97). SPP filed the...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC on Thursday approved NERC’s revised geomagnetic disturbance reliability standard, which broadens the definition of GMDs, requires grid operators to collect certain data and imposes deadlines for corrective actions (RM18-8, RM15-11-003). NERC created Reliability Standard TPL-007-2 (Transmission System Planned Performance for Geomagnetic Disturbance Events) in response...
LaFleur, Stakeholders Anxious over NERC Retirement Study By Rich Heidorn Jr. ATLANTA — FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur and several stakeholders expressed concern Tuesday that "fuel war" partisans could weaponize NERC’s coming analysis on the impact of a dramatic increase in coal and nuclear plant retirements. But based on the...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC on Thursday approved reliability standards for mitigating supply chain risks in industrial control system hardware, software and computing and networking services. The commission also ordered NERC to develop rules expanding the supply chain protections to include electronic access control and monitoring systems (EACMS). The commission’s...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. and Amanda Durish Cook FERC and NERC announced Wednesday they are conducting a joint inquiry into the January cold snap that resulted in generation outages and loads that approached summertime highs in MISO South. Uncharacteristically frigid weather prompted MISO to initiate a maximum generation alert for...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC on Thursday ordered expanded reporting of cybersecurity incidents, saying attempts not currently reported could lead to bigger, more successful attacks. The commission gave NERC six months to revise its critical infrastructure protection (CIP) reliability standards to mandate reporting of incidents that compromise, or attempt to...
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