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North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a non-profit entity that develops and enforces reliability standards to promote adequate and consistent bulk electrical power in North America. NERC enforces standards, monitors reliability, investigates disruptions and trains and certifies power industry personnel. less -

FERC Rejects Department of Energy's Bid for Coal, Nuclear Subsidies

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/10/2018

• The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has voted to terminate a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking stemming from Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry's September 2017 proposal to initiate new pricing rules. ...more

Authorities Investigating Cyber Intrusion of Numerous U.S. Nuclear Power Plants

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/11/2017

It’s scary to think about, but anything that is online is hackable. Including critical infrastructure like nuclear power plants. It has been reported that U.S. authorities are investigating a cyber intrusion that has hit...more

Proposed FERC Regulations Would Grant FERC Access to NERC Non-Public Transmission and Generation System Databases

Morgan Lewis on 9/22/2015

FERC proposes to grant itself access to NERC’s Transmission Availability Data System, Generating Availability Data System, and Protection System Misoperations Database. On September 17, the Federal Energy Regulatory...more

EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Structure, Implications for the Grid, and Next Steps

K&L Gates LLP on 8/14/2015

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Clean Power Plan (Plan) in its final form on August 3, 2015. The rule reshapes energy policy nationwide by setting state-by-state greenhouse gas emissions...more

NERC Proposes New Physical Reliability Standard

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/30/2014

Last Friday, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) submitted for approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), in Docket No. RM14-15, a proposed new physical reliability standard. The...more

FERC Directs NERC to Propose Mandatory Reliability Standards Regarding Physical Security Risks to the Bulk-Power System

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/11/2014

On March 7, 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order directing the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to propose one or more Reliability Standards to require certain entities...more

NERC Fines Generator for Violations Related to Lead Line Operations

Morgan Lewis on 7/8/2013

Filing reminds generators with significant high-voltage tie lines that they can be subject to Reliability Standards typically applied to transmission owners and transmission operators. ...more

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