The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee endorsed a 41% increase in a delayed 345-kV project along the Red River in southeastern Oklahoma as reasonable and reset the project’s baseline.

FERC OK'd a rule requiring grid operators to protect against geomagnetic disturbances as well as measures on reliability monitoring and frequency control.

The MISO Reliability Subcommittee discussed improving frequency response, pseudo-tie congestion management, and its 2016/17 winter Coordinated Seasonal Assessment.

Regulators urged their colleagues at the NARUC summer conference to join them in developing cybersecurity rules for electric distribution companies.

FERC proposes to adopt the new NAESB standards, adopted by its Wholesale Electric Quadrant and filed with FERC last October.

Small Generators, defined as under 20 MW, will be required to ride through abnormal frequency and voltage events under a rule approved by FERC.

FERC directed NERC to develop a “forward-looking, objective-based” critical infrastructure protection reliability standard for supply chain management.

Two 345-kV lines that were knocked out when a tornado leveled four transmission towers in ComEd territory are back online.

FERC  issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement legislation enacted last year to protect the grid from terrorist attacks.

Capacity Performance units no longer would be compensated for participating in cold weather testing under a plan by the PJM Operating Committee.