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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 -

Summary of FERC Meeting Agenda for December 2025

White & Case LLP on 12/17/2025

Summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's monthly open meeting to be held on December 18, 2025, pursuant to the sunshine notice released on December 11, 2025....more

Securing America's Energy Infrastructure/Addressing Cyber and Physical Threats to the Grid: U.S. House Energy and Commerce...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 12/9/2025

The Subcommittee on Energy of the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee held a December 2nd hearing titled: Securing America’s Energy Infrastructure: Addressing Cyber and Physical Threats to...more

FERC Grapples With Surging Reliability and Interconnection Demands From Data Centers

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 11/24/2025

After years of relative stability, U.S. electricity demand is growing at a staggering rate, driven in large part by the rapid growth of data centers. According to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC),...more

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

LADWP’s $350,000 Warning: Why Accuracy Matters in Reliability Compliance

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes on 10/15/2025

FERC recently approved a stipulation and consent agreement between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and Office of Enforcement and Regulatory Accounting to resolve an investigation into potential...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

Renewable Energy Update 8.1.25

Allen Matkins on 8/4/2025

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved a new set of reliability standards designed to ensure the stability of the U.S. electric grid as more wind and solar resources come online. The standards, developed...more

Energy Law: Month in Review - June 2025

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 7/15/2025

Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month. ...more

FERC Moves To Bolster Cybersecurity

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 7/3/2025

On June 26, FERC approved a new reliability standard (CIP-015-1) proposed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ("NERC") to enhance cybersecurity of the nation's bulk electric system ("BES"). In a related...more

Natural Gas and Coal-Fired Plants To Halt Retirement Under Trump Executive Order

Perkins Coie on 6/10/2025

Key Takeaways - - Pursuant to President Trump’s executive order seeking to maximize the secretary of energy’s emergency authority under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, the secretary’s two new orders have halted the...more

NERC Tees Up Plan to Assess Grid Risks Associated with Data Centers

White & Case LLP on 4/25/2025

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) outlined forthcoming activities to identify and address the potential impacts to reliability as a result of the rapid expansion of data centers and other large...more

Powering Progress: Navigating the Intricacies of On-Site Nuclear Generation

Womble Bond Dickinson on 2/14/2025

Small modular reactors (SMRs) can be collocated with high demand customers such as data centers and large manufacturing and chemical facilities to provide electric energy and capacity to them directly. Behind-the-meter...more

Renewable Energy Update 12.26.24

Allen Matkins on 12/27/2024

The Department of Energy has announced plans to prepare environmental reviews for three proposed hydrogen hubs in Appalachia, California, and the Pacific Northwest as part of the Biden administration’s initiative to establish...more

New “Ride-Through” Requirements for Inverter-Based Resources: FERC Seeks Comments on NERC’s Proposed New Reliability Standards

Husch Blackwell LLP on 12/24/2024

On December 19, 2024, FERC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) to approve the addition of the newly defined term “Ride-through” to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Glossary of Terms and to...more

FERC Approves NERC’s Expanded Registration Requirements

Husch Blackwell LLP on 9/18/2024

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) recently approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (“NERC”) request to expand registration and compliance requirements to inverter-based resources...more

Energy & Sustainability Washington Update – August 2024

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints on 7/30/2024

New Bipartisan Energy Permitting Reform Legislation - US Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, have unveiled the Energy...more

Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024: U.S. Senators Manchin/Barrasso Introduce Legislation

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 7/25/2024

United States Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV) and John Barasso (R-WY) have introduced legislation titled: Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024. (“Act”). The Senators are the Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, of...more

Summary of FERC Meeting Agenda for June 2024

White & Case LLP on 6/26/2024

Summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's monthly open meeting to be held on June 27, 2024, pursuant to the sunshine notice released on June 20, 2024. ...more

FERC Approves NERC’s CIP Reliability Standard on Cyber Security

Troutman Pepper Locke on 6/10/2024

On May 23, 2024, FERC approved the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (“NERC”) proposed Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”) Reliability Standard, CIP-012-2 (Cyber Security – Communications between...more

FERC Meeting Agenda Summaries for April 2024

Perkins Coie on 4/24/2024

Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on April 25th, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The summaries below are based on publicly...more

NERC Requests Approval To Expand Registration And Compliance Obligations To A New Category of Entities: Category 2 GOs/GOPs

Husch Blackwell LLP on 4/19/2024

NERC recently filed rule changes with FERC that propose to significantly expand NERC registration and compliance requirements to inverter based resources, such as renewable energy and battery facilities, that historically...more

NERC Files Revisions to Rules of Procedure Subjecting Certain Unregistered Inverter Based Resources to Mandatory Reliability...

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 4/3/2024

On March 19, 2024, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to approve revisions to NERC’s Rules of Procedure (“ROP”) that would require certain...more

FERC Approves Extreme Cold Weather Reliability Standards EOP-011-4 and TOP-002-5

Troutman Pepper Locke on 3/20/2024

On February 15, 2024, FERC approved two new extreme cold weather Reliability Standards EOP-011-4 (Emergency Operations) and TOP-002-5 (Operations Planning)....more

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