The ERO will hold its final planning meeting for GridEx VI from 1 to 3 p.m. ET on May 26. All registered GridEx planners are invited to attend the session, Katherine Ledesma, of the E-ISAC, told the Real-Time Operating Subcommittee (RTOS) at its meeting Wednesday. "The final planning meeting is...

Planning has begun for GridEx VI, which will test response to a coordinated attack from a nation-state adversary, Program Manager Katherine Ledesma told the newly renamed Real Time Operating Subcommittee on Wednesday. NERC’s design group, which began work on GridEx VI in July, shared its draft scenario narrative during the...

By Holden Mann Last year’s GridEx V security exercise provided the electricity industry with a number of lessons about crisis management that are proving timely in the current COVID-19 pandemic, according to NERC officials. "One of the reasons we do exercises like this is so we are prepared to deal...