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The Intersection of Regulation & Resilience
The Computational Load Entity Just Became Two
NERC's August 19 posting replaced the Computational Load Entity with two separate registrations, Computational Load Owner and Computational Load Operator, raised the thresholds to 50 MW and 100 kV, and moved the test for who is in scope into a new Site definition. What changed between April and August, who should be running the applicability test, and the eight questions to answer before the window closes.
The AI Reliability Boundary: A Black Hat Debrief for the Grid
Almost every conversation at Black Hat came back to AI, and almost every pitch assumed the answer to an AI problem is another product. In the grid, that assumption does not hold. Keirsten Brager's debrief on what the show floor missed, why governance is not a document, and why AI is not automatically out of scope for NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards. It closes with the questions to answer before your next vendor demo.