January 21, 2025

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.
WECC Summit Explores Rapid Change in the West
Speakers at this year’s Western Reliability Summit discussed the growth of solar, the challenges of cybersecurity and the dangers of climate change.
MISO Foresees Summer Emergency, LMR Use
MISO expects to call on load-modifying resources this summer despite estimates it will have about 149 GW of projected capacity on hand.
Washington, Nevada Join 100% Clean Energy Movement
Washington state lawmakers approved legislation Monday requiring the state to rely entirely on zero-emissions and renewable energy by 2045.
West Wrestles with Resource Adequacy, Grid Reliability
The spring joint meeting of the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation and the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body focused on grid reliability and protecting crucial infrastructure.
NERC Standards Committee Briefs: April 17, 2019
The NERC Standards Committee unanimously approved the opening of a 45-day comment period on revised inverter rules in reliability standard PRC-024.
MISO Gives Tentative Nod to Seasonal Capacity Design
MISO now cautiously estimates that the benefits of a seasonal capacity auction would outweigh potential drawbacks.
ISO-NE Filing, Whitepaper Address Energy Security
A ISO-NE whitepaper attempts to chart a course for the RTO to develop new market-based solutions to overcome New England’s energy security challenges.
FERC Rejects CAISO RA Incentive Change
FERC rejected a CAISO plan to change incentive rules under its resource adequacy mechanism for wind and solar generation.
FERC OKs MISO Outage Scheduling Rules, DR Testing
FERC granted MISO permission to implement the remaining two proposals in its three-part short-term resource availability and need project.
CAISO Board OKs Market Power Mitigation Remedy
CAISO’s Board unanimously approved a proposal to address concerns that the ISO’s market power mitigation rules disincentivize participation in the EIM.

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