The Texas Public Utility Commission’s rookie electric utility regulators last week stood in front of the proverbial fire hose, wielded by ERCOT staff, market participants and the grid’s Independent Market Monitor, as they try to get a grip on how best to respond to February’s disastrous winter storm. In what the PUC billed as the …

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In a rare move, CAISO will use its capacity procurement mechanism to obtain more resources after other measures fell short, threatening summer blackouts.

FERC approved CAISO's controversial rule changes on wheel-throughs, intended to ensure the ISO has adequate capacity this summer.

Thousands of customers of Avista Utilities lost power during a record-smashing heat wave when the utility ordered rolling blackouts in Spokane, Wash.

A drought in the West is cutting into hydropower supplies needed for summer reliability, especially in California, panelists in a USEA briefing said.

ERCOT stakeholders have endorsed the first system changes addressing system changes stemming from the winter weather that almost shut down the Texas grid.

The California PUC ordered an additional 11.5 GW of procurement by mid-decade but backpedaled on a plan to include up to 1,500 MW of fossil fuel generation in the mix.

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada said a Western market would help alleviate supply shortfalls like those that occurred last August.

MISO execs say long-term transmission and a capacity market redesign are a must in response to rising climate risks and fleet change.

ERCOT insiders at ACORE's Finance Forum spoke candidly on the causes and lessons learned from Texas' February outages.