FERC accepted penalties against a number of entities, including Entergy and the Tennessee Valley Authority, for violations of NERC reliability standards.

Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount faced difficult questions about the cyberattack against his company in a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security committee.

NERC is supplementing a recent DOE initiative with a guide for auditors checking on utilities' implementation of network monitoring technology.

Day two of FERC’s technical conference emphasized the need for more transmission to facilitate trading and properly compensating demand-side resources.

Panelists told FERC at a virtual technical conference that considering how climate change may affect the future grid is especially challenging.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday dismissed a petition from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calling for a review of Department of Energy rules concerning disclosure of critical electric infrastructure information (CEII), saying that UCS lacked standing to bring the complaint. The petition by UCS concerns DOE’s...

FERC dealt another rejection to security activist Michael Mabee on Wednesday, denying his request for an investigation into the widespread power outages resulting from February’s cold snap despite intervenors supporting his contentions of lax regulatory oversight on the Texas power grid (EL21-54). Mabee filed his complaint on Feb. 28, not...

In a compliance filing last week, NERC sought to once again reassure FERC that the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) does not violate registered entities’ confidentiality when sharing information with the ERO Enterprise to assist in standards development (RR19-7). NERC also proposed changes to its Rules of Procedure...

FERC on Thursday approved a final rule ordering utilities to implement the latest version of the North American Energy Standards Board’s (NAESB) Standards for Business Practices and Communication Protocols for Public Utilities (RM05-5). Under the commission’s rulemaking, the timeline for implementation of version 003.3 of the standards — approved by...

The ransomware attack that crippled Colonial Pipeline’s network nearly two weeks ago was still fresh on the mind of FERC commissioners at their open meeting on Thursday, as they advocated various approaches to securing North America’s critical infrastructure in light of the latest reminder of its vulnerability. Colonial, which claims...