NERC's Board of Trustees heard updates on the ERO's response to April's outages in Spain and Portugal, while approving updates to its regional delegation agreements and a Level 3 alert on inverter-based resources.

Leaders from the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center updated NERC trustees on the physical and cyber security threats facing electric utilities.

FERC approved settlements between ReliabilityFirst and two Cogentrix entities with a total penalty of $110,000, along with additional settlements in SERC's footprint.

Outgoing E-ISAC CEO Manny Cancel reflects on the evolution of cyber and physical security over his time at the organization.

FERC and state regulators heard from experts on the state of gas-electric coordination, which continues to be an issue as the two industries systems are increasingly interdependent.

The Canadian supplement to NERC's Interregional Transfer Capability Study recommended 14 GW of additional transfer capability in the country, mostly in Quebec.

Stakeholders urged FERC to consider reliability and consumer costs when weighing approaches to co-located large loads.

NERC defended its proposed standard on inverter-based resources from stakeholder criticism on several aspects, including its development process and exemptions for legacy technology.

FERC and NERC's report on the January winter storms indicated the gas and electric industries are improving their communication and coordination, staff said at the commission's April meeting.

FERC heard details about recent reliability incidents caused by data centers tripping offline in Virginia and Texas and NERC's efforts to address them.