NERC staff acknowledged recent criticisms of the 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment while describing the challenges of performing the analysis in recent years.

NERC trustees agreed to accept the recommendations of the Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force at their first meeting of 2026.

NERC's Board of Trustees agreed to a significant committee restructuring during its final meeting of 2025.

NERC's Member Representatives Committee heard progress reports from the groups developing updates to its standards development process and strategic plan.

NERC's trustees approved next year's budgets while urging stakeholders to continue collaborating with the ERO as the industry faces an ever-growing set of challenges.

The NERC board's Technology and Security Committee heard updates on the ERO's intentions for the use of artificial intelligence, along with threat information from the E-ISAC.

NERC's Board of Trustees heard updates on the ERO's response to April's outages in Spain and Portugal, while approving updates to its regional delegation agreements and a Level 3 alert on inverter-based resources.

Leaders from the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center updated NERC trustees on the physical and cyber security threats facing electric utilities.

After invoking its Section 321 authority to streamline the normal stakeholder process, NERC's Board of Trustees voted to submit a new cold weather standard to FERC for approval.

NERC's Standards Committee heard an update on the progress of the ERO's cold weather standard and efforts to develop guidance for trustees' next invocation of Section 321.