SPP announced it intends to serve as a reliability coordinator in the Western Interconnection by late 2019.

FERC was given no advance notice of the President Trump directive to Rick Perry regarding coal and nuclear plants and has been provided no details since, officials said.

FERC officials and RTO executives still had more questions than answers this week regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) plans for rescuing at risk nuclear and coal plants.

President Trump on Friday ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take immediate action to prevent the loss of coal and nuclear plants, saying the economic and environmental challenges forcing their retirements threaten national security.

Electric vehicles and the tension between state and federal jurisdiction were among the topics discussed at the NECPUC 71st annual symposium.

The CAISO Board of Governors new imbalance conformance rules allow the ISO to account for errors in renewable energy forecasts.

About 194,000 customers in New York were without electric power in the state after a series of thunderstorms hit on May 15, according to the NYPSC.

FERC proposed to approve a revised reliability standard on geomagnetic disturbances but directed NERC to also require mitigation of vulnerabilities to localized events.

FERC will be closely monitoring ERCOT and Southern California this summer as most of the country faces the likelihood of above-normal temperatures.

FERC should let RTO stakeholder processes work and not issue broad and costly new mandates on grid resilience, commenters told the commission.