FERC & Federal
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is an independent regulatory agency that oversees the transmission of electricity, natural gas and oil in interstate commerce, as well as regulating hydroelectric dams and natural gas facilities.
The National Petroleum Council is the latest group urging reforms to address gas-electric coordination including pipeline expansion, and reforms to organized power markets and pipeline tariffs.
In new guidance, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency sought to help utilities integrate artificial intelligence into their operational technology environments.
Electricity sector participants urged Congress to support cyber security programs as the House E&C Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy heard testimony on the efforts of nation-states and other actors to hack the bulk power system.
CISA published guidance to help infrastructure operators respond to the rising incidence of drones run by unknown operators near their facilities.
FERC has closed its enforcement investigations into possible unlawful activity related to 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, just a few months before the statute of limitations on the issue is to expire.
FERC issued an NOPR directing several changes to gas pipelines' business practices aimed at increasing information sharing with grid operators, especially during extreme weather.
A new publication from CISA aims to help organizations catalog the electronic assets on their systems so they can respond quickly to cyber incidents.
CISA staff said the continuation of the CVE Program is essential to maintaining global cyber preparedness and information sharing.
Government and industry stakeholders have urged Congress to reauthorize a key cybersecurity bill before it expires at the end of September.
Cybersecurity agencies from more than a dozen countries warned that China-linked threat actors continue to try for footholds in the computer networks of critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. and its allies.
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