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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...

Planning has begun for GridEx VI, which will test response to a coordinated attack from a nation-state adversary, Program Manager Katherine Ledesma told the newly renamed Real Time Operating Subcommittee on Wednesday. NERC’s design group, which began work on GridEx VI in July, shared its draft scenario narrative during the...

By Holden Mann Last year’s GridEx V security exercise provided the electricity industry with a number of lessons about crisis management that are proving timely in the current COVID-19 pandemic, according to NERC officials. "One of the reasons we do exercises like this is so we are prepared to deal...

ATLANTA — NERC’s Operating, Planning and Critical Infrastructure Planning committees gathered this week for their last face-to-face meetings before turning their functions over to the new Reliability and Security Technical Committee (RSTC) in June. PC Discusses Distributed Energy White Paper In an unusual move, the Planning Committee opened up the...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO last week said preparations are in the works for the 2021 GridEx VI exercise, with the RTO drawing on lessons learned during last year’s event. Speaking at a Reliability Subcommittee meeting Thursday, MISO outage coordinator Trevor Hines said the RTO is already...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. NERC will begin testing the newest version of its situational awareness tool in mid-November, which will add the ability to integrate transmission feeds with other sources such as real-time weather station data and radar. Situational Awareness for FERC, NERC and the Regional Entities (SAFNR v.3) was...