Most regions are well prepared for the summer season, though the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is a significant source of uncertainty.

NPCC does not anticipate any major reliability issues this summer, in part because of depressed demand resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

FERC accepted settlements with Bonneville Power Administration, FirstLight Power and an unnamed entity for violating NERC reliability standards.

FERC accepted a $450,000 settlement between the Northeast Power Coordinating Council and three Avangrid utilities for violations of operations standards.

“Significant and rapid change” will cause challenges with resource adequacy, but utilities can turn the evolving resource mix to their advantage.

PJM said it was a quiet operations month in November with zero spinning events and nine post-contingency local load relief warnings.

Security experts told attendees at GridSecCon 2019 they should take the E-ISAC's training in implementing the Design Basis Threat.

NPCC's Regional Standards Committee held a forum on reliability issues related to DERs, featuring presentations by Hydro-Quebec, Duke and IESO.

Consolidated Edison blamed a failed relay protection system for the Manhattan blackout that affected about 72,000 customers.

The Northeast Power Coordinating Council is projecting a summer peak demand of 103,548 MW in the week of July 28, 2019 a 0.6% reduction from last year.