FERC accepted NERC's five-year performance assessment while seeking comments on its proposal to adopt two standards related to inverter-based resources.

NERC warned in its 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment that most of the electric grid faces potential energy shortfalls beginning as early as next year.

NERC's RSTC welcomed a batch of fresh faces and passed several white papers and reference documents at its final meeting of 2024.

Members of NERC’s Standards Committee said goodbye to several departing colleagues while arranging the committee’s business for 2025.

NERC's trustees took action on a number of standards items, along with multiple organizational items, in the last board meeting of 2024.

NERC and the regional entities expressed support for FERC's cybersecurity proposals but reminded the commission of their already busy development cycle.

Webinar participants said NERC's study on interregional transfer capability is a solid foundation for future planning but leaves much work still to be done.

A colder winter is likely to bring higher electricity demand and drive up natural gas prices, FERC staff said in the commission's annual winter energy market assessment.

NERC filed the completed Interregional Transfer Capability Study to FERC ahead of the December deadline set by Congress in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.

"Chicken Little" claims about power outages being caused by the transmission grid being overtaxed do not stand up to scrutiny, says columnist Steve Huntoon.