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

Stakeholders mostly said the recommendations to update NERC's standards development process represented a good start but needed further development to ensure a fair process.

Leaders of NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force presented their final recommendations ahead of the upcoming Board of Trustees meeting.

NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force released a set of draft recommendations to update the ERO's standards development process.

NERC's latest ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report includes energy policy and critical infrastructure interdependencies among crucial reliability risks.

The ERO Enterprise's 2022 enforcement plan makes clear that regional entities are prepared to return to in-person audits in 2022.

NERC's 2021 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report highlights 11 key areas of risk for the electric industry and recommends a host of mitigating activities.

The NERC Reliability Issues Steering Committee is changing the schedule for its Reliability Risk Priorities Report and updating its charter.

NERC is developing a framework for prioritizing known and emerging risks that it soon hopes to hand off to a key committee for further refinement.

The Reliability Issues Steering Committee has added a 10th risk — critical infrastructure interdependencies — to the nine previously identified.