Late last week, the NERC Board of Trustees accepted the 2025 ERO Reliability Risk Priorities Report, put together by the Reliability Issues Steering Committee (RISC). The report provides key insights, priorities, and high-level leadership for issues of strategic importance to the North American bulk power system (BPS).
The report highlights six key risk themes:
- New large loads plus changing resource mix
- Larger-scale widespread events observed
- Natural gas interdependence
- Cyber and Physical Security complexity
- Persistent supply chain challenges
- Volatile energy policy
In addition to these six themes, the report also identifies critical risk profiles which includes: grid transformation, resilience to extreme events, critical infrastructure interdependencies, security, and energy policy. Of these, grid transformation remains an overarching driver of new reliability risks- the transformations underway are very different from traditional power system behavioral assumptions, challenging the existing grid’s resilience to extreme events.
The report also includes recommendations to deliver ongoing system reliability in a time of increasing change and complexity.
Read the report and specifics here: Reliability Issues Steering Committee (RISC)