China and other foreign actors remain committed to undermining the North American power grid, representatives of the E-ISAC said.

The U.S. electric power industry faces unprecedented challenges from the size, pace and impacts of demand growth and should look to new approaches for possible solutions, according to speakers at NASEO’s Energy Policy Outlook Conference.

In a filing, NERC told FERC it estimates more than 850 inverter-based resources will need to be registered under new criteria.

FERC and the ERO have launched a review into the electric grid's performance during January's extreme cold weather that brought record low temperatures and snowfall to the Southeastern U.S.

Consultant Terry Brinker warns about potentially hundreds of facilities being included in NERC's IBR rules, where fines and penalties can be as high as $1 million a day per violation.

A representative of Texas RE emphasized that NERC plans to build on last year's Interregional Transfer Capability Study.

NERC's monthly spreadsheet notice of penalty listed 22 infringements of facility ratings standards across multiple regions.

NERC's Standards Committee expects to have the latest version of the cold weather standard ready to post for a formal comment period by Jan. 27.

In its Winter Reliability Assessment, SERC Reliability said several of its subregions have high or elevated risk of energy shortfalls during extreme conditions.

Citing a looming FERC deadline, NERC's Board of Trustees voted once again to sidestep the normal standards development process to accelerate development of the ERO's cold weather standard.