Christian covers cybersecurity for Energywire. He previously worked at POLITICO as a digital producer and before that as a cybersecurity intern during the 2018 midterm elections. Christian graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2018, where he majored in multimedia journalism.
The top U.S. grid security monitor is pushing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to delay seven cybersecurity and workforce standards set to take effect this year, citing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Renewable energy beat coal for generating electricity for the first quarter of 2020 — the first time that's happened in a three-month period, according to a report yesterday from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
The nation's top grid security monitor said Friday that utilities are "well prepared" for dealing with the novel coronavirus pandemic, citing a survey of their readiness.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the nation's most powerful group of state regulators are urging states to designate utility workers as "essential" to critical infrastructure amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, according to a statement yesterday.
Hackers have reportedly stolen two decades' worth of files from a U.S. energy equipment vendor that counts Missouri's largest utility, Ameren Corp., among its customers.