The inability of Midwestern grid operators to recover quickly from extreme winter weather drew customer anger, along with scrutiny from regulators.

PJM is looking to improve the deployment of synchronized reserves during a spin event, but some stakeholders questioned the timing of the issue.

NERC is accepting comment on proposed changes to several CIP reliability standards intended to “incorporate virtualization and future technologies."

The teams for two projects working to revise the same two NERC standards are considering how to merge their work after positive stakeholder feedback.

NERC’s Standards Committee is accelerating the pace at which it approves standard authorization requests for industry comment, causing some concern.

FERC ordered NERC to audit the CMEPs of all regional entities by June 2023, rejecting the organization's proposed audit plan.

PJM stakeholders heard another first read of the RTO’s proposals for mitigating and avoiding critical infrastructure designations under NERC rules.

Consumer advocates, industrial customers and state regulators asked FERC to reject PJM transmission owners’ critical infrastructure mitigation plan.

PJM objects to a Tariff attachment before FERC that would create a new confidential process to mitigate critical infrastructure on NERC’s CIP-014-2 list.

PJM experienced two spinning events last month and shared reserves with NPCC three times, the RTO told the Operating Committee.