How to Comment on the FERC Technical Conference
Comments on the FERC Technical Conference on the 5 Families of Standards Posted by NIST for Consideration by Regulators FERC held a technical conference on Monday, January 31, to obtain further...
View ArticleKey Consensus from UTC Smart Grid Policy Summit - All Stakeholders in Smart...
One of the biggest challenges facing the deployment of smart grids is inadequate consumer education, which is in some cases is worsened by "over-hyping" the benefits of the smart grid. This general...
View ArticleSenate Committee Approves "Grid Cyber Security Act" - Unanimously
Earlier today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources unanimously approved the "Grid Cyber Security Act", a somewhat amended version of the bill it approved last session but was never brought to the...
View ArticleFERC Issues Order on Smart Grid Interoperability Standards
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its Order on Smart Grid Interoperability Standards,and it has concluded that there is "insufficient consensus" on the initial five families of...
View ArticleFERC Initiates Rule Making on NERC CIP 4 Security Standards
Source: FERC Press Release dated September 15, 2011"In a long awaited regulatory action, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took steps to support continued transmission system reliability...
View ArticleFERC Has Cybersecurity Problems, Says DOE IG
The commission seeking greater authority over the cybersecurity of the nation’s electric grid has security problems of its own. A recently released audit of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s...
View ArticleNERC Reliability Report Draws Attention to Threats and Issues in Bulk Power...
Integration of smart grid devices, and other new and emerging technologies reliant on communications to control operations of the device pose a threat to the reliability of the electric grid, according...
View ArticleNERC's Proposed FFT Format for Reliability Standards Violation Reporting...
A proposal put forward by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to use a three-tier format informational filing to report possible violations of Reliability Standards has been...
View ArticleFERC Approves NERC CIP 4 Standards
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved Version 4 of the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards submitted by the North American Electric Reliability...
View ArticleFERC/NERC Report Blames Poor Planning for 2011 Southern California blackout
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) have released a comprehensive report that pins the 2011 Southern California blackout on inadequate...
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