A proposed law giving FERC authority over the licensing of all hydropower projects has advanced to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

PJM secured U.S. Department of Energy approval to dispatch Dominion's shuttered Yorktown units to address reliability issues in Virginia.

The ERCOT board learned that Lubbock Power & Light’s potential transition from SPP could result in as much as $77 million in increased production costs.

CAISO on Monday called on consumers to voluntarily conserve energy this week as scorching heat drove up electricity usage and caused outages.

The North American grid was very reliable in 2016, but threats are increasing and restoration from a total system collapse could prove time-consuming.

Planning reserve margins are expected to be adequate for a hotter-than-normal summer, FERC said in its annual summer reliability report.

At the NYISO Management Committee, the RTO said that it declared a major emergency on May 21 after the loss of 1,000 MW of generation in ISO-NE.

CAISO will increase its daily procurement of operating reserves in response to the erroneous tripping of solar generation caused the loss of 1,200 MW.

Experts identified what may be the most dangerous cybersecurity threat yet to the U.S. power system, malware that can commandeer circuit breakers.

Barring a FERC denial, MISO says it will begin sharing gas usage profiles of gas-fired generators with three natural gas pipeline owners before winter.