Icy weather knocked more than 400,000 Texas customers offline last week, but all outages were at the local distribution level.

WECC directors said that Westerners should take cold comfort from the fact that grid operators were able to avert blackouts during a September heat wave.

The PJM Planning Committee voted by acclamation to endorse the results of the 2022 Reserve Requirement Study.

Forecasters say California and the Southwest will see extreme heat this weekend, with conditions like those that strained the grid over Labor Day weekend 2020.

A debate over PJM's proposed load model, and discussions of generator deliverability testing and FERC NOPRs highlighted the Planning Committee meeting.

NYISO reviewed the preliminary results of phase one of the Grid in Transition study on the reliability effects of integrating more renewables into the grid.

PJM's Operating Committee discussed rule changes regarding transmission scheduling, "max emergency" generation and retirement notices.

NPCC predicted adequate resources to meet the needs of customers this summer, despite drops in capacity and a rise in expected demand since 2021.

MISO officials answered questions about the capacity shortfalls and expensive prices in the 2022/23 auction while stakeholders asked for more supply data.

Last year's events in Texas, and the growth of renewables on New England's grid, have ISO-NE and states looking at weather more closely than ever.