NAES

Under NERC CIP-013, entities must work with suppliers, contractors, and OEMs to establish and enforce cybersecurity and supply chain risk management requirements for the procurement and handling of BES Cyber Systems and their associated EACMS and PACS. These requirements support the identification and assessment of cybersecurity risks associated with vendor products and servi...

By Leonard Wills, NERC CIP Reliability Specialist

For years the comfort in generation was that attacking a PLC took rare skill. You had to understand S7 comm or Modbus, the memory map, the engineering tooling, and how a specific controller behaved when you poked it. That barrier is gone. On August 19, 2026, NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA released joint advisory AA26-2...

By Laura Christensen, Sr NERC Reliability Specialist

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has completed a major expansion of its Generator Owner (GO) and Generator Operator (GOP) registration requirements for certain inverter-based resources (IBRs). Beginning May 15, 2026, NERC registered qualifying Category 2 IBR facilities an...

By Sam Coffey, NERC Reliability Specialist

Low water levels are reducing hydroelectric generation at Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam, two of the largest hydropower facilities in the western United States. According to a 2026 update from WECC, weak snowpack and below-average runoff have contributed to historically low reservoir levels across the Color...

By Joshua Brantley, Sr NERC Reliability Specialist

The joint 2026 cold weather performance review from FERC, NERC, and the Regional Entities delivers an encouraging message for the electric industry: preparation is improving, and those improvements are producing measurable results. During the 2026 Arctic cold period, including Winter Storms Fern and...