Power industry divided over FERC’s proposed incentives for cybersecurity measures

摘要

A proposal to award extra financial incentives to electric utilities thatimplement cybersecurity measures which go above and beyondcurrent mandatory reliability standards drew a divided reaction amongpower sector stakeholders.Investor-owned utilities and transmission owners generally threwtheir support behind the notice of proposed rulemaking (RM21-3)issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in December,while public power, transmission-dependent utilities, consumeradvocates and several states urged the commission to reject theproposal in comments due April 6.