SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee and other stakeholders reviewed a draft of a staff-written response to FERC’s grid resiliency docket.

Resilience, pipelines and PURPA topped the discussions at the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners’ (NARUC) winter meetings.

Regulators from Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana competed to heap scorn on Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s bid to boost coal and nuclear plants.

The chairman of NERC’s Board of Trustees said the organization hopes to have a new CEO in place by the summer.

Stakeholders will participate in a broad discussion of what constitutes resilience during MISO Board of Directors Week in late March.

In his first Capitol Hill appearance as FERC chairman, Kevin McIntyre said he still sees a place for coal and pledged the commission would maintain its independence as it conducts its new resiliency inquiry.

SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee decided it will respond to FERC’s request for a definition of “resilience,” rather than turning the effort over to a task force.

FERC Commissioner Neil Chatterjee acknowledged he has suffered some growing pains in his transition from Capitol Hill partisan to FERC commissioner.

FERC’s ruling that “resilience” is not simply a matter of onsite fuel supply won nearly universal praise outside the coal and nuclear industries.

FERC and grid operators will explore "resilience" following the commission’s rejection of Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposed rulemaking.