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NERC to OMS: Long-term Assessment not a Predictor of Risk
A rendering of Invenergy's proposed 1.2-GW simple-cycle gas plant in Kenosha County, Wis. The project is in MISO's interconnection fast track.
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NERC officials appeared before an Organization of MISO States board meeting in an attempt to quell regulators’ discontent with MISO’s “high-risk” label in the 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment.
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BPA's new cluster study includes 167 generation interconnection requests (IRs) and identifies 59 points of interconnection (POIs).
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BPA Rolls out Generation Interconnection Cluster Study
More than 60 GW of generation is a step closer to connecting to BPA's transmission system, following the release of Phase 1 of an interconnection cluster study.
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A diagram illustrating how MISO's “zero-injection” interconnection agreements would work
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MISO’s Zero-injection Proposal: A Good Start, but It’s Not Enough
Limiting MISO large load solutions only to zero-injection scenarios misses the mark and can create a myriad of challenges now and in the future, writes David Sapper of the Clean Grid Alliance.
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OGE's Adam Snapp explains transmission costs during SPP's February board meeting.
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SPP Demand Forecast, DR Policies Leave No One Happy
SPP's Board of Directors approved a framework for demand response and peak demand assessments despite opposition from members and stakeholders.
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PJM's Paul Dajewski discusses the grid's performance during January's Winter Storm Fern.
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PJM: Lower Load than Expected During Winter Storm
While PJM experienced some of its highest peak loads ever during the late January winter storm, it overestimated load, with relatively high load forecasting errors, RTO officials told the Operating Committee.
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Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s Weston RICE units
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States Consider Tapping MISO for Analyses in Path to Potential New RA Standard
MISO state regulators are considering asking the RTO to keep tabs on resource adequacy risk indicators as they contemplate crafting a replacement standard in the footprint.
PJM Stakeholders Considering Load Management Performance Penalties
PJM, Voltus and the RTO’s Independent Market Monitor presented proposals to establish penalties for demand response and price-responsive demand resources that fail to perform during a pre-emergency load management event.
Tech Companies Need a Hedge Against Worrisome Grid Politics
An alternative to connecting a large data center load to the electrical grid is a private, fully off-grid energy system, writes Travis Fisher of Cato.
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Stakeholders Urge Further Refinement of NERC Standard Modernization Proposals
Stakeholders mostly said the recommendations to update NERC's standards development process represented a good start but needed further development to ensure a fair process.
MISO States Dispute ‘High Risk’ Designation from NERC
Members of the Organization of MISO States sent a letter to contradict aspects of NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment, disputing the ERO’s label of MISO as being at “high risk.”
DOE Touts Fossil Fuels’ Role in Meeting Peak Energy Demand This Winter
DOE's senior leadership highlighted how the grid relies on fossil fuels to make it through winter peaks.
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Conflict Brewing over Gas Transition in Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, a state with some of the most ambitious decarbonization policies in the country, fundamental disagreements between utilities and consumer advocates threaten to derail the transition from natural gas before it even gets off the ground.
Offshore Wind Group Questions CPUC’s Proposed Forecast for Humboldt Project
Offshore wind experts urged the California Public Utilities Commission to reconsider a forecasted 6-year delay to the Golden State’s offshore wind project in Humboldt County.
Revolution Wind Weeks Away from Generating Power — Maybe
If Ørsted can continue to beat back the Trump administration’s interference, it could start generating electricity with its Revolution Wind project in a matter of weeks.
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PJM Monitor Joe Bowring
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PJM MIC Briefs: Feb. 4, 2026
PJM’s Market Implementation Committee passed by acclamation a PJM issue charge seeking to more thoroughly define how storage resources participate in the energy and ancillary service markets.
PJM PC/TEAC Briefs: Feb. 3, 2026
PJM’s Julia Spatafore presented a quick-fix proposal to model battery storage dispatch in Regional Transmission Expansion Plan base cases.
PJM OC Briefs: Feb. 5, 2026
The PJM Operating Committee endorsed a set of manual revisions to implement ambient-adjusted line ratings.
Rapid Load Growth Focus of State Energy Officials Conference
The challenges and opportunities of meeting demand from new large loads like data centers took center stage at the National Association of State Energy Officials’ recent Energy Policy Conference.
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N.Y. PSC Changes DER Interconnection Rules to Meet Tax Credit Deadlines
The New York Public Service Commission issued new interconnection rules for distributed energy resource developers and utilities aimed at capturing as many expiring Inflation Reduction Act tax credits as possible for wind, solar and storage projects.
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MISO Members Push for Modernized Storage Rules
MISO membership called for modernized market rules for energy storage that can capture its chameleon-like roles.
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FBI Releases Critical Infrastructure Cyber Recommendations
Through Operation Winter SHIELD, the FBI will share a different cybersecurity recommendation each week.
CISA Guidance Emphasizes Insider Threat Readiness
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released guidance to help critical infrastructure operators build insider threat management teams.
AEP, Springdale to Pay $180K in NERC Penalties
FERC approved two utilities' settlements with ReliabilityFirst for violations of NERC reliability standards covering protective relay settings.
ERCOT Leaned on Mobile Gens, RMR Unit During Storm
ERCOT says it leaned on Texas’ 15 mobile generating units and an RMR unit during the state’s first major cold-weather event since 2021’s disastrous Winter Storm Uri.
In its 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment, NERC predicted that 13 out of 23 assessment areas will face resource adequacy challenges over the next 10 years.
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NERC Warns of ‘Worsening’ Resource Adequacy Through 2035
NERC's latest Long-Term Reliability Assessment projected more than half of all assessment areas will face high or elevated risk of energy shortfalls in the next 10 years.
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Grid Weathers Latest Winter Storm but Still Faces Gas Coordination Problems
The North American grid made it through the winter storm of Jan. 24-26 — dubbed “Fern” by The Weather Channel — relatively unscathed, but the cold weather gripping much of the U.S. and Canada continues, and cold snaps in the future will still stress the interconnected power and natural gas systems.
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Data Center Moratorium Bill Introduced in N.Y. Legislature
Democrats in the New York Legislature have introduced legislation to create a three-year moratorium on the siting and permitting of new data centers statewide.
Cleanview: Data Centers’ Speed-to-market Goals Lead to Inefficient Gas Generation
Cleanview released a report putting numbers to a trend where many hyperscale data center developers are building dirtier, more quickly available generation to cash in on the AI boom.
Equinor Hopeful it Can Complete Empire Wind on Schedule
Work on the $7.5 billion, 810-MW project off the New York coast has been halted twice by the administration and resumed twice by the Norwegian developer.
Tiny U.S. Geothermal Sector Poised for Growth
The 99 U.S. plants online in 2024 had a combined nameplate capacity of 3.97 GW, up 8% from 2020, a new report indicates.
Climate risks interact and compound
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Leadership in a Time of Systemic Climate Risk
Climate risk no longer is simply an environmental problem. It’s a governance, planning, and management problem. And it sits squarely on the desks of utility executives, system operators, and policymakers.
Components for the Sunrise Wind offshore wind project are staged in Coeymans, N.Y.
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With Sunrise Wind Ruling, OSW Industry now 5-0 Against Trump Admin.
Four judges have granted all five projects under construction in U.S. waters permission to resume construction.