Press Releases

January 17, 2025

Cybersecurity Baselines for Electric Distribution Systems and DER Interim Implementation Guidance: Scope and Prioritization of the Baselines

This implementation guidance is intended to assist entities wishing to adopt the Cybersecurity Baselines as the foundational requirements of a cybersecurity risk management program.

October 29, 2024

GDO Grid Resilience Framework FAQ October 2024

This FAQ outlines essential aspects of the Grid Resilience Framework initiative developed by NARUC, E9, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office.

October 7, 2024

Energy and Industrial Use Cases for Advanced Nuclear Reactors

This report provides a detailed overview of potential alternative use cases for advanced nuclear and identifies considerations and key questions for state energy regulators and State Energy Offices.

September 11, 2024

Essential Guide to NARUC Microgrids Resources

This guide connects commissioners and commission staff to essential microgrids resources that NARUC has developed in partnership with NASEO.

September 6, 2024

Defense Energy Resilience Engagement Framework for Utility Regulators

This document offers public utility commissions a Defense Energy Resilience Engagement Framework to engage with in-state military stakeholders and support defense-related utility applications.

August 15, 2024

Questions for Public Utility Commissions Related to Assessing Potential Risks to the Distribution System from Older Inverter-based Distribution Generation

This resource presents high-level issues and related questions to serve as discussion prompts for Public Utility Commissions wishing to explore aspects of utilities’ distribution and bulk power system risk management programs related to potential re-

July 15, 2024

Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources in 2024: The Fundamentals

This report builds upon existing literature and leading examples of ADER pricing and programs in practice to equip commissioners and staff at PUCs and SEOs with the fundamentals of ADER grid services, valuation options, and approaches to compensation

July 12, 2024

NCEP Collaboration Brief: Partnerships between State Government Agencies and Higher Education Institutions to Support Recruitment

This collaboration brief highlights partnerships between state government agencies and higher education institutions to identify and attract diverse talent—particularly recent graduates and early career professionals—into public sector work. These pa

July 12, 2024

Regulators’ Financial Toolbox: Keeping Track of Clean Energy

On February 26, 2024, NARUC’s Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment hosted a panel discussion titled “Keeping Track of Clean Energy Part III: Economy Wide Consistency” at the 2024 NARUC Winter Policy Summit. The panel was moderated by Hon

July 3, 2024

Collaborative Enhancements to Unlock Interregional Transmission

Collaborative Enhancements to Unlock Interregional Transmission E3 report June 2024