November 2, 2024

January 2018 cold snap

FERC
FERC Orders New Reliability Standards in Response to Uri
FERC ordered two new NERC reliability standards in response to the February 2021 winter storm that nearly led to the collapse of the Texas Interconnection.
Matthew T. Rader, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
FERC Approves Cold Weather Standards
FERC approved NERC's proposed cold weather reliability standards in an order that recognized more standards would likely be necessary in the future.
MISO Taking Pains to Prepare for Moderate Winter
MISO is preparing for emergency conditions this winter despite projecting 40 GW of excess capacity to meet the forecasted peak in January.
© RTO Insider
Familiar Winter Story: ISO-NE Braces for Gas Shortages
Most RTOs say they are ready for winter but the possibility of fuel shortages during an extended cold spell is keeping ISO-NE officials up at night.
Monitoring Analytics, PJM State of the Market Report, Q1 2018
PJM Prices up Sharply in Q1, Monitor Says
January’s cold weather resulted in a sharp increase in natural gas and power prices in the first quarter, PJM’s Independent Market Monitor reported.
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Gas Dominates, Again, in FERC State of the Markets Report
As they have in the past four years, the trends in natural gas dominated the discussion of FERC’s annual State of the Markets report.
MISO Markets Committee Talks Winter, Spring — and Beyond
A seasonal post-mortem at this month's MISO Board Week provided stakeholders with insight into the RTO’s market performance recently, in the near future and the long term.
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Overheard at ISO-NE’s Consumer Liaison Group Meeting
More than 100 people gathered at the ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group to discuss the rapid changes overtaking New England’s electricity market.
ISO-NE
Van Welie: ISO-NE in ‘Race’ to Replace Retirements
ISO-NE is racing to relieve natural gas pipelines constraints and interconnect new resources, CEO Gordon van Welie said.
PJM
PJM: Cold Snap Uplift Shows Need for Pricing Changes
PJM that its generation fleet performed much better in this New Year’s January cold snap than during the 2014 polar vortex.

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