A collection of issues being discussed by SPP stakeholders, including the Clean Power Plan, reliability for this winter and a settlement with MISO.

A summary of issues the MISO Board of Directors discussed at the MISO Informational Forum last week.

The power outage that darkened the White House and much of D.C. on April 7 began with the failure of a 230-kV lightning arrester at a Pepco substation.

FERC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that directs NERC to develop critical infrastructure protection rules for supply chain management.

A round-up of news from the SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee on July 14 and 15.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week proposed revisions to several sets of reliability standards.

FERC said it expects sufficient resources to meet peak electric demand this summer despite coal-fired retirements, while NERC approved its summer reliability assessment.

FERC gave preliminary approval to the second stage of its reliability standard to protect the grid from geomagnetic disturbances (GMD).

FERC has required NERC to determine the severity of a “benchmark” GMD event — the threshold against which covered entities would evaluate their system’s vulnerability and develop protective strategies.

Since the EPA proposed its Clean Power Plan, the idea that the final rule should include a reliability safety valve has become an article of faith among utility, state and RTO officials.