Sentences with phrase «electric reliability corp.»

Last month, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. held its biennial GridEx exercise, where utilities and grid operators run through their crisis plans, coordinating responses and reassuring customers as they rush to respond to a simulated attack.

The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and regional grid operators say U.S. grid reliability is not at risk in the short term, but Walker said those entities may not «have the visibility or the proper information to determine if something is a national security issue.»

FirstEnergy, an Ohio - based utility that was a key supporter of the DOE proposal, urged FERC to direct the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) to take «prompt and decisive action to ensure the continued resilience of the grid.»

The North American Electric Reliability Corp. hosts a simulated grid attack, GridEx, every two years, and DOE is a participant.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

A December report from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said U.S. power generation from renewable sources, along with natural gas, would produce enough electricity to offset retirements of U.S. coal and nuclear units over the next 10 years.

The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) standard on physical security — known as Critical Infrastructure Protection - 014 (CIP - 014)-- includes six basic requirements, but perhaps the most

That view is backed in a report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), an industry - funded nonprofit to which Congress has delegated responsibility for ensuring the reliability of the electric delivery system.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

In a report out this week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a nonprofit regulatory authority charged by the federal government with oversight of reliability in U.S. power systems, found that it still lacked adequate analysis to know whether the plan's targets are achievable.

Not exact matches

«If you were too comprehensively regulate greenhouse gases under the existing Clean Air Act, that would impose a substantial cost and insufficient flexibility for the regulated community,» said Scott Segal, director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which lobbies on behalf of power companies like Southern Co. and Duke Energy Corp..