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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) voted 5-0 yesterday in Harrisburg to approve a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) which would strengthen cybersecurity requirements for regulated utilities. This will continue the PUC’s efforts to help protect utility infrastructure that is critical and maintain reliable and safe service for consumers in Pennsylvania. These proposed regulations would modernize and expand the PUC’s existing cybersecurity framework and would also establish updated standards for utility cybersecurity programs, enhance cybersecurity incident reporting requirements and require annual certifications of compliance by jurisdictional utilities.