AI Compliance for Utilities

Bring AI into Grid and Plant Operations Without Risking Reliability

Load forecasting, asset health, wildfire risk models and AI agents in the SOC now touch critical infrastructure. Asenion turns NERC CIP, OT security and emerging AI rules into operational controls your CISO, OT security and compliance teams can verifiy, monitor and evidence.

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What auditors and regulators will ask about

5 headline regulations and standards for AI in utilities

Few of these were written only for AI. All of them apply to it.

North America · Reliability

NERC CIP

Mandatory cybersecurity standards for the bulk electric system in the US and Canada, including CIP-013 supply chain risk management and the new CIP-015 internal network security monitoring.

For AI: AI tools that touch BES Cyber Systems or BES Cyber System Information must fit your ESP, access management and supply chain controls.

International · OT security

ISA/IEC 62443

The OT and industrial control system security standard series, built on zones, conduits and security levels.

For AI: Place AI components inside defined zones and conduits, and hold suppliers of AI-enabled OT products to component security requirements.

US · Maturity model

DOE C2M2

The Department of Energy's Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model for energy sector security programs.

For AI: Benchmark how you manage AI assets, AI supply chain risk and AI-related threats across IT and OT.

EU · Cybersecurity

NIS2 and the Network Code on Cybersecurity

NIS2 covers electricity, gas, water and district heating operators; the electricity Network Code on Cybersecurity adds cross-border risk assessment.

For AI: AI in grid and plant operations falls under NIS2 risk management, supply chain security and incident reporting.

EU · AI regulation

EU AI Act

AI used as a safety component in managing critical infrastructure or supplying water, gas, heating and electricity is high-risk. Under the AI Omnibus, those obligations apply from December 2027.

For AI: Risk management, robustness, logging and human oversight for AI that operates grid and network assets.

Use cases

Where AI meets these rules in utilities

The AI use cases we see most often, and the requirements that follow them.

Load forecasting and grid optimization

Forecasting and dispatch models affect reliability. They need validation, fallbacks and drift monitoring, especially in extreme weather.

NERC CIPEU AI Act high-riskNIS2

Asset health and wildfire risk models

Models that guide power shutoffs, inspections and capital plans need documented assumptions, independent review and ongoing monitoring.

Wildfire mitigation plansC2M2ISO/IEC 42001

Customer service and billing AI

Assistants handling accounts, payment arrangements and disconnection questions must be accurate, disclose AI and protect customer data.

PCI DSSEU AI Act Art. 50Privacy laws

AI agents in OT and the SOC

Agents with access to SCADA, EMS or security tooling need least privilege, change control and tamper-resistant logs.

NERC CIP-005 / CIP-007CIP-015IEC 62443
How Asenion helps

From regulation to operational control

One set of controls, applied from design through runtime, with evidence your CIP auditors, regulators and board can rely on.

01 · CONTROLGEN

Policy Packs for utilities

Start from Policy Packs for NERC CIP, IEC 62443, C2M2, NIS2 and the EU AI Act, combined with your own OT and AI policies.

02 · VERIFY

Verify before release

Verify models and agents for unsafe recommendations, robustness failures, data leakage and prompt injection, with every result mapped back to a control.

03 · WITNESS

Govern at runtime

Apply context-aware controls to AI agents in production and capture tamper-resistant evidence of what happened, which controls applied and whether they worked.

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Scale AI across the grid with controls you can prove

In 30 minutes we'll map your AI use cases to the rules above, show the controls that apply, and point out gaps across IT and OT.

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