Cybersecurity firm Dragos has partnered with NERC's E-ISAC for an initiative to spread up-to-date cyber threat intelligence across the electric grid.

NERC's Standards Committee once again registered disapproval of a standard project team's response to industry feedback, but it stopped short of ending it.

NERC's board approved standards requiring generators to protect their units against freezing and share their cold weather operating parameters.

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...

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...

Membership criteria for standard drafting teams (SDTs) are reliable sources of disagreement on NERC’s Standards Committee, and Wednesday’s meeting was no different. The dispute this time revolved around the nominees to the SDT for Project 2021-03 (CIP-002 Transmission owner control centers). NERC initiated the project in March to "evaluate the...

Cybersecurity experts say that last week’s ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which led to the ongoing shutdown of the network that carries almost half the supply of gasoline, diesel and other fuel products to the U.S. East Coast, provides a graphic reminder of the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats...

The ERO will hold its final planning meeting for GridEx VI from 1 to 3 p.m. ET on May 26. All registered GridEx planners are invited to attend the session, Katherine Ledesma, of the E-ISAC, told the Real-Time Operating Subcommittee (RTOS) at its meeting Wednesday. "The final planning meeting is...

FERC gave final approval Thursday for NERC and WECC to introduce regional reliability standard BAL-002-WECC-3 (RM19-20). The commission also granted the entities the extension they requested for the follow-on progress report that FERC ordered when it approved the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the standard last year. (See FERC Approves...