A NERC manager emphasized that the ERO's new compliance abeyance policy is meant to be used only in rare circumstances.

NERC submitted the penalties against the two utilities for violating the ERO's facility ratings standards in its monthly spreadsheet notice of penalty.

NERC CEO Jim Robb said political and economic "uncertainty" led the ERO to delay work on a new three-year plan until 2026.

NERC's Standards Committee moved forward with multiple standards development projects, while rejecting one standard request as proposed by a development team.

Former FERC Chair Neil Chatterjee and other panelists in an ACORE-hosted webinar warned that grid stakeholders need to put aside old ways of thinking to address growing reliability challenges.

Texas Reliability Entity CEO Jim Albright sees similarities between the issues facing the U.S. and European grid and hopes to learn from the recent Iberian Peninsula outage.

NERC's Summer Reliability Assessment found that energy shortfalls are possible this summer in the middle of North America, New England and Baja California.

Registered entities have until May 15 to submit required information about their generating units' cold weather performance.

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.