CIP

RSS

NERC's Board of Trustees and Member Representatives Committee voted to send two new reliability standards to FERC for approval.

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

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

Participants from across the ERO Enterprise shared their own challenges with keeping their communications systems secure from hackers.

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...

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...

FERC’s proposal for incentivizing public utilities to invest in cybersecurity improvements provoked a range of reactions from industry stakeholders in the comment period that closed earlier this week (RM21-3). The commission introduced the proposed incentive structure in December, building on a white paper published last June that sought to build...