NPCC's Regional Standards Committee held a forum on reliability issues related to DERs, featuring presentations by Hydro-Quebec, Duke and IESO.

Utilities must train their employees and become less wary of sharing information with other companies, cybersecurity experts told MARC in Des Moines.

California must find new approaches to long-term forecasting and collaboration, speakers said at a California Energy Commission workshop.

SERC Reliability used part of its quarterly open forum to provide lessons learned from a series of attacks on Arkansas’ power grid in 2013.

MISO will next year discontinue submitting data to NERC’s Generating Availability Data System on behalf of generation in its footprint.

Con Edison remained on the hot seat after power outages hit 50,000 customers Sunday night, the second major outage in less than a week.

SPP’s Western Reliability Working Group approved several governing documents as it prepares for its new RC function in the Western Interconnection.

FERC called for reliability rules requiring generator owners to winterize units, citing a cold snap that caused MISO and SPP to seek load reductions.

NARUC released a suite of tools to allow state regulators to gauge their utilities’ cybersecurity preparedness without becoming technical experts.

Consolidated Edison blamed a failed relay protection system for the Manhattan blackout that affected about 72,000 customers.