May 9, 2025
Hello again from ERO Insider! Mother’s Day is coming up for our U.S. readers this Sunday, and while many publications offer suggestions for celebrating the holiday, we’d rather recommend you read up on Anna Jarvis. She has a better claim than anyone else to be the creator of Mother’s Day. Be forewarned: Her story isn’t always happy. But it is a look into a very complicated person and how her talent and ambition led her to make her unique mark on history.
Speaking of historic events, the world of electric reliability has been talking about the mass outages in Spain and Portugal last week, when nearly the entire Iberian peninsula lost power, in some places for almost 24 hours. NERC CEO Jim Robb updated the Board of Trustees on what we know about the incident so far — which isn’t much — and how the ERO is trying to help. Holden Mann has the story, plus more on this week’s board meeting, inside. (See NERC Offered Help with Iberia Outage Investigation, Robb Says.)
This week’s meetings also saw a report from the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center on the most pressing cyber and physical security threats facing the electric grid. Click through to see why China remains a major concern. (See E-ISAC Reports on Cyber, Physical Threats.)
California’s massive growth in solar and battery facilities should help meet peak demand this summer, officials say — but tariff changes under the Trump administration could complicate the use of those resources next year. David Krause has more from a recent report by state energy officials. (See California Will Rely Heavily on Batteries to Meet Summer 2025 Peaks.)
A communication breakdown led to two reliability standard violations in ReliabilityFirst’s footprint that caused the regional entity to impose $110,000 in penalties on two Cogentrix entities. Follow the link for the details on the settlement that FERC approved last month. (See FERC Approves $110K Penalties in RF.)
Outgoing E-ISAC CEO Manny Cancel sat down with ERO Insider recently to share his insights on the cyber and physical security challenges facing the grid, and how the ERO has evolved to address them. We’ve got more from that conversation after the jump. (See Outgoing E-ISAC CEO Manny Cancel Reflects on Security Challenges.)
That’s going to be all for this week, but we’re so glad you shared your Friday morning with us! We’ll be back next week with more news from the ERO Enterprise and beyond, including the release of NERC’s Summer Reliability Assessment on May 14. Make sure to keep checking back for the latest updates, and have a great week!
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