NERC's Standards Committee approved teams for several standard drafting projects, while ending one project pending further research.

NARUC and NRRI introduced a document intended to help regulatory commissioners get up to speed on pressing topics related to resource adequacy.

The Transportation Security Administration announced a fresh slate of cybersecurity requirements aimed at the U.S. pipeline network.

Safety culture, long seen as a corporate unicorn, can be created, a new EPRI study implies.

Utilities and their regulators are becoming more comfortable with direct cooperation in response to disasters, panelists told NARUC's Summer Policy Summit.

NERC and the ERO Enterprise have activated the second stage of the Align tool, which is expected to streamline compliance reporting across regions.

NYPSC fined Con Edison $82 million over operating “imprudence” and emergency response violations, including for its response to Tropical Storm Isaias.

Interconnection queues across the country are bursting with requests from battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid power plants pairing storage with solar or wind. Because of their growing numbers and the differences in their operating characteristics from traditional synchronous generation, NERC issued a reliability guideline in March on the resources’ performance capabilities and how …

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Texas RE's site visits will continue as it waits for the NERC cold-weather standards to become requirements.

The Midwest Reliability Organization said extremely hot temperatures will continue to be an area of concern for its planning coordinators through September.