Resource Adequacy
Resource adequacy is the ability of electric grid operators to supply enough electricity at the right locations, using current capacity and reserves, to meet demand. It is expressed as the probability of an outage due to insufficient capacity.
PJM stakeholders rejected a compromise proposal on the controversial black start unit testing issue in a final vote at a MC meeting.
ERCOT projects record summer peak demand, but its preliminary assessment says power reserves “are in a better position” than in recent years.
The CPUC and CAISO instituted new resource adequacy requirements and conservation programs in preparation for the coming summer.
PJM’s minimum offer price rule is living on borrowed time if the comments at FERC’s technical conference on capacity markets are any guide.
WECC gathered leaders from the Western Interconnection’s four reliability coordinators to ask what keeps them up at night.
While it warns of more system risk in the coming years, MISO is preparing for an unremarkable spring and a routine capacity auction.
MISO reiterated the extraordinary nature of mid-February’s winter storm, promising more data later this month and resource adequacy solutions by year-end.
The Western Energy Imbalance Market approved two CAISO measures and endorsed a third to improve reliability, mitigate capacity shortfalls.
Texas utilities are coming up short on payments to ERCOT, as the state legislature begins considering restructuring the grid operator's governance.
More than half of the U.S. coal fleet could be retired by 2025 to reduce emissions and generating costs, with no harm to reliability, according to RMI.
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