U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the department is ready to use its authority under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to dispatch backup generation from large customers if needed ahead of a major winter storm.

BPA's day-ahead market decision will have “major reliability and affordability impacts” on electricity customers in the Northwest and across the West, CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer told the ISO’s Board of Governors

NERC's Reliability and Security Technical Committee agreed to endorse two new standards projects at its meeting this week, while rejecting another.

A group of Western utilities plans to help SPP develop its Markets+ program in the West and to examine the benefits of joining it or CAISO's day-ahead market.

SPP said it plans to close its Western Energy Imbalance Service, with members joining either its proposed Markets+ program or its Western RTO.

NERC issued a Level 2 alert calling on registered entities to report their readiness for severe cold after multiple winter crises in recent years.

WECC gathered leaders from the Western Interconnection’s four reliability coordinators to ask what keeps them up at night.

SPP successfully launched its WEIS market, making it the first RTO with power markets in both the Western and Eastern Interconnections.

Western BAs should determine what caused errors in load and generation forecasts during August’s massive heat wave and fix their forecasting processes.

Planning has begun for GridEx VI, which will test response to a coordinated attack from a nation-state adversary, Katherine Ledesma said.