Additional renewables and storage will not compensate for gas retirements in the Western Interconnection, a new WECC reliability assessment says.

Electric reliability in New York state declined last year compared to 2016 because of a severe wind storm in March, staff told the NYPSC.

The PJM Operating Committee unanimously approved revisions to Manual 14D to tighten the notification rules for transferring the ownership of generation units.

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.

FERC will open a 60-day comment period on potential changes to its policy statement on the permitting of natural gas pipelines.

MISO challenged a 2017 NERC assessment that found two areas in the RTO would challenges during a disruption of natural gas delivery.

Congress will be watching FERC’s review of its policy on licensing natural gas pipelines very closely. Any changes FERC makes are unlikely to please all members, however.

Panelists at the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association’s Environmental Conference discussed the turmoil at EPA, as well as the dangers of climate change.

Electric vehicles are increasing on California highways, but future growth is dependent on solving critical issues, PUC Commissioner Carla Peterman said.

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