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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 Staff Audit Report Identifies CIP Standard Compliance Risks in FY2025

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/14/2025

On October 20, 2025, FERC Staff issued a report outlining areas of risk to the reliability of the electric grid based on non-public Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Audits of U.S. based North American Electric...more

FERC Fines Electric Utility for Providing False Information to NERC Regional Entity

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 10/9/2025

On October 2, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a settlement with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to resolve an Office of Enforcement (Enforcement) investigation of LADWP’s...more

NERC Continues Focus on Large Load Interconnections

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/2/2025

Expanding its efforts to assess and address risks to the bulk power system ("BPS"), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ("NERC") issued an Industry Recommendation on September 9, 2025 ("Large Load IR"),...more

NERC Advances Inverter-Based Resource Registration With FERC Petition

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 9/19/2025

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation ("NERC") has taken an important step in implementing revised reliability standards for inverter-based resources ("IBRs"). In an August 27, 2025 petition filed with FERC...more

FERC Directs NERC to Develop Reliability Standards for Inverter Based Resources

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/9/2023

On October 19, 2023, FERC issued a final rule directing the North American Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) to develop or modify reliability standards to address reliability concerns attributable to inverter-based resources...more

FERC Approves Two New Extreme Cold Weather Reliability Standards and Directs Further Modification

Husch Blackwell LLP on 4/27/2023

On February 16, 2023, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued an order approving two extreme cold weather reliability standards: EOP-011-3 (Emergency Operations) and EOP-012-1 (Extreme Cold Weather...more

FERC Staff Provides “Lessons Learned” from Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standard Audits

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 11/5/2021

In October 2021, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff issued its annual report on “recommendations to help users, owners and operators of the bulk-power system improve their compliance with the [North American...more

FERC Approves Expanded Cyber Incident Reporting Requirements for Electric Utilities

Morgan Lewis on 7/3/2019

FERC recently approved proposed Reliability Standard CIP-008-6, which expands the mandatory reporting requirements for Cyber Security Incidents that attempt to compromise the operation of the bulk power system. Under the new...more

FERC and NERC Advance Dramatically Expanded Mandatory Cybersecurity Reporting Standards - Medium and High BES Systems Could Face...

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/26/2019

• New Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rule mandates new wide-ranging cybersecurity reporting standards in CIP 008-6. • Mandatory reporting is now required for "cyber security incidents that either compromise, or...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2018 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/30/2018

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on July 19, 2018, that it is directing the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) “to develop and submit modifications to the NERC Reliability...more

FERC Requires New NERC Reliability Standards for Reporting Cyber Incidents

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/30/2018

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