PG&E restored power to 738,000 customers after its public safety power shutoffs prompted a backlash from the public, state regulators and elected officials.

The NRC briefed FERC on its plans to replace its time-intensive inspections of licensees’ cybersecurity plans with a more “risk-informed” approach.

NERC’s Stakeholder Engagement Team has finalized its proposal to merge the Planning, Operating and Critical Infrastructure Protection committees.

As roughly 600,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers remained without power, the president of the California PUC called the situation “unacceptable.”

The leaders of the Senate ENR Committee announced legislation to provide $250 million in funding for transmission owners cybersecurity investments.

NERC is accepting comments until Nov. 4 on the second draft of a revised standard to improve the ride-through performance of inverter-based resources.

The NERC Operating Committee got a preview of GridEx V, an update on ERCOT’s summer operations and a briefing on the June blackout in Argentina.

NERC's Standards Committee elected new leadership and approved its 2020-2022 Standards Development Plan at a meeting last week.

A NERC study concluded that wind and solar generators can respond to frequency disruptions far more quickly than a traditional synchronous machine response.

NERC's Standards Committee delayed posting a standard authorization request by SPP on generator weatherization because of a competing proposal from EEI.