The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) news section features current news, accomplishments, research initiatives, funding opportunities and more from around the energy sector.

Grid Security Exercise – known as GridEx – is designed to test the electricity sector’s ability to respond to grid security emergencies.
Officials visit islands to assess damages and discuss ongoing recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Partnerships are vital to protecting the Nation's critical energy infrastructure from the cyber threat.

The impacts of Hurricane Harvey were widespread. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve stepped in to mitigate the effects of the hurricane on refiners.

DOE Emergency Responders Active in Power Restoration Efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Office of Fossil Energy announced contracts have been awarded from the recent congressionally-mandated sale of Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude oil

The Department of Energy came together with public and private sector partners to respond and rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

As Hurricane Harvey approaches Texas, the Department of Energy (DOE) is monitoring energy infrastructure and coordinating responses with its partners.
FE plans to draw down and sell a total of 14 million barrels of sour crude oil from the SPR. Crude oil will be sold from three sites –
FE announced today that DOE would issue a Notice of Sale for the sale of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in late August 2017.