From Nextgov:
A group of electric companies says it is not opposed to working with the federal government to secure power-grid computer networks, as long as regulators don’t proscribe new burdensome and inflexible rules.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., helped sponsor legislation that would have created more government oversight of certain critical networks, including those that control electric grids. After that bill floundered in the Senate partly because of industry opposition to new rules, he wrote a letter to top leaders of Fortune 500 companies asking them about their views on cybersecurity.