Tom Alrich's Blog

Many of you may know this was the title of a Talking Heads concert film. I thought of it in relation to a conversation I had recently wit...

Yesterday, FERC released Order 829 , a Final Rule ordering that NERC develop a CIP standard for supply chain security, and deliver it to ...

My last post was about the CIP version 7 Standards Drafting Team’s discussions regarding their FERC-mandated task of developing a new de...

This blog’s ultimate genesis was when I attended my first NERC Standards Drafting Team meeting at Exelon’s headquarters in Chicago (where...

Stating the Problem The CIP standards are always just a small part of the NERC CIPC (CIP Committee) meetings, which focus on many diffe...