On Wednesday, March 18, FERC and NERC jointly announced that they were exercising their regulatory discretion to consider the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on the ability of operators of the bulk ...

Entities registered with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to comply with mandatory electric reliability standards (Reliability Standards) or face civil penalties should take ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) announced that they are taking steps to ensure that operators of the bulk electric system ...

Despite the recent retirement of “blackstart” units, grid operators have sufficient resources to quickly restore systems in the event of widespread outages, suggests a new report by staff at the ...

Staff from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and its regional entities recently issued a report outlining recommendations for ...

NERC’s assessment for the upcoming winter finds that reliability risk is elevated in regions that are especially vulnerable to extreme weather, natural gas supply disruptions and low hydro conditions.

July 20 (Reuters) - The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) on Wednesday said key entities of the U.S. power grid network were working to improve resilience of the power grid network as ...

More than 75 industry and government partners participated in the North American Electric Reliability Corp.’s (NERC) first cybersecurity readiness exercise, GridEx 2011, on Nov. 16 and 17. The ...