Assistant Energy Secretary Bruce Walker said the DOE is planning a megawatt-scale “Storage Launchpad” that will cut the cost of energy storage dramatically.

Speakers at NERC’s biennial Reliability Leadership Summit talked about the impact of the new U.S. resource mix and distributed generation on the grid.

NERC CEO Jim Robb said he sees no “appetite” among policymakers for expanding the organization’s authority despite concerns over the visibility of distributed energy resources.

Members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee are worried FERC and NERC are not treating the threat of cyberattacks with enough urgency.

The NERC Board of Trustees authorized management to terminate the amended and restated delegation agreement between the organization and the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council.

NERC stakeholders got a look at a draft report on supply chain risks as part of a FERC directive to address risk management of the industry’s vendors.

NERC has recommended a $10 million fine on Duke Energy for repeated violations of critical infrastructure protection reliability standards.

NERC has recommended a $10 million fine on an unidentified utility for repeated violations of critical infrastructure protection reliability standards over more than three years.

The NERC Standards Committee unanimously voted to authorize the standards drafting team to consider the retirements of all or part of more than 30 reliability standards.

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