NERC CEO Jim Robb said he is pushing for new reliability standards to address fuel assurance concerns and ride-through settings for inverters on solar generation and storage.

Generation reserve margins might drop if coal and nuclear units retire sooner than anticipated, according to the preliminary findings of a NERC study.

FERC and NERC are conducting a joint inquiry into the January cold snap that resulted in generation outages in MISO South.

The SPP Regional Entity’s Board of Trustees officially terminated the RE’s regional delegation agreement, effective 5 p.m. CT on Aug. 31.

The three-day NAES-NERC conference touched on EPA’s replacement for the Clean Power Plan, the debate over grid resilience and cybersecurity.

NERC CEO Jim Robb said his organization is sidestepping politics and striving to maintain its independence from industry.

Canadian Electricity Association CEO Sergio Marchi complained that he and other Canadian stakeholders have been excluded from cybersecurity briefings.

How many RCs there will be in the Western Interconnection, and who they are, should come into better focus on Sept. 4, said WECC CEO Melanie Frye.

The NERC Board of Trustees approved Wisconsin Public Service Corp.’s and Upper Michigan Energy Resources’ requests to move to ReliabilityFirst from MRO.

FERC ordered expanded reporting of cybersecurity incidents, saying attempts not currently reported could lead to bigger, more successful attacks.