News & Analysis as of February 10, 2026

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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

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 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

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

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