SaskPower briefed the NERC Operating Committee on the mass outage event in which heavy rime ice caused shield wires to sag and contact the phase conductors.

The Texas RE held its annual meeting, at which current Texas PUC Chair DeAnn Walker raised concerns about NERC representation.

The Midwest Reliability Organization approved appointments and policy changes at its annual meeting.

WECC will launch an initiative to tighten coordination and clarify who does what among the planning groups, utilities and industry stakeholders.

Increasing incidents of extreme weather, along with threats to cybersecurity, are pressing items identified in MRO’s draft Regional Risk Assessment.

ERCOT will likely welcome back double-digit reserve margins next year and well into the decade, according to the grid operator’s latest CDR report.

The Western Interconnection’s transition to multiple reliability coordinators ended well when SPP took over the remaining Peak Reliability territories.

SPP became the first regional transmission organization to handle RC services in the Eastern and Western Interconnections.

FERC is engaged in a debate with ReliabilityFirst over the modeling transmission owners should undertake to identify “critical” substations under CIP-014.

North America’s grid has adequate resources to meet energy needs this winter, but NERC remains concerned about unpredictable circumstances.