The team working on winter preparedness standards confirmed that the joint inquiry by NERC and FERC into the Texas outages will not affect its schedule.

NARUC released a guideline stating that public utility commissions must play a role in building their organizations’ cybersecurity expertise.

FERC's Richard Glick said he may seek new reliability standards to ensure better preparation for severe winter conditions following prolonged outages.

The California-Mexico subregion cannot maintain resource adequacy without imports, and the greatest risk of shortages is in Southern California, WECC said.

ERCOT said that enough generation had returned to service to stop the rotating outages that began Feb. 15.

NERC’s Standards Committee moved forward with two standards projects, but not before revisiting an ongoing argument about the standards development process.

The inability of Midwestern grid operators to recover quickly from extreme winter weather drew customer anger, along with scrutiny from regulators.

Drones have the potential to revolutionize utilities’ information gathering and grid resilience, according to speakers at NARUC's Winter Policy Summit.

In its annual report, NERC applauded the ERO Enterprise for advancing the reliability and security of the power grid during an “extraordinary" year.

NERC said grid planners must prepare for the coming surge in battery storage, which is expected to double to 4 GW by 2023.