Drought, wildfires, plant retirements and transmission outages have elevated the risk of supply shortfalls in the West, Texas, MISO and SPP, NERC said.

Texas RE provided some common pitfalls related to facility ratings found in compliance audits and advice for utilities to avoid them.

FERC and NERC continue to gather information from utilities, generators and grid operators on maintaining electric reliability during severe cold weather.

FERC staffers praised ERCOT operators for preventing a worse catastrophe during last year’s devastating winter storm during a Talk with Texas RE webinar.

Extreme weather events have brought “extraordinary clarity” about reliability risks posed by climate change, NERC CEO Jim Robb told an EPSA conference.

The Texas RE said staff maintained high-level operations across all program areas last year while functioning in a virtual work environment.

In a recent report NERC suggested that last year's winter storms hold a valuable lesson about providing greater flexibility in managing firm load shed.

ERCOT’s conservative use of reliability unit commitments to procure standby reserves since last year’s winter storm is under question.

Representatives of Texas RE and WECC said Thursday the growing penetration of distributed energy resources is introducing new challenges to grid management.

Cyberattacks for economic gain are “without a doubt” going to remain a danger for businesses for some time, the Texas Reliability Entity said in webinar.