After disastrous hurricane seasons, FPL instituted its “Storm Secure” program in 2006; resulting improvements paid off when Hurricane Ian made landfall.

Entergy says it has borrowed from Florida in ensuring its $15 billion, 10-year accelerated resilience plan will upgrade its system against future storm damage.

Frustration over the lack of transmission growth and interregional planning mixed with optimism over FERC’s recent rulemakings at the Transmission Summit.

The U.S. Department of Energy issued new energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs that will effectively phase out incandescent bulbs by July 2023.

FERC and NERC continue to gather information from utilities, generators and grid operators on maintaining electric reliability during severe cold weather.

LS Power CEO Paul Segal says the U.S. should appoint independent system planners, mandate interregional transfer capability and boost transmission competition.

A new report from the Department of Energy found multiple areas for improvement on its coordination with utilities that serve U.S. defense facilities.

The critical role transmission must play in grid decarbonization is the key theme at the ACORE Grid Forum, but politics were a constant, tangential concern.

SPP COO Lanny Nickell pointed to a lack of gas generation as the culprit behind the first load sheds in the grid operator’s history.

Connecticut regulators ruled that Eversource and UI did not meet acceptable standards in their response to Tropical Storm Isaias.