December 23, 2024

winter readiness

North Carolina Utilities Commission
North Carolina Regulators Face Questions on Holiday Outages
The NCUC chair consumer advocate faced lawmakers' questions on the state's first-ever rotating outages stemming from a December storm.
FERC
FERC Orders New Reliability Standards in Response to Uri
FERC ordered two new NERC reliability standards in response to the February 2021 winter storm that nearly led to the collapse of the Texas Interconnection.
NYPA
NYISO Operating Committee Briefs: Jan. 23, 2023
NYISO updated the OC on the December snowstorm's impact on grid operations, highlighting a sharp shortfall in scheduled generation on Christmas Eve.
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NV Energy Blames ‘Heavy Wet Snow’ for New Year’s Outages
NV Energy told Nevada regulators that “extreme weather” and wet snow caused outages that cut power to nearly 124,000 customers at the start of the year.
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Winter Problems, Capacity Accreditation, New Faces on the Docket for ISO-NE in 2023
ISO-NE will start 2023 like it starts every year: worrying about the winter weather.
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ERCOT Board of Directors Briefs: Dec. 19-20, 2022
ERCOT’s board has stripped away its corporate members’ right to vote on future changes to the bylaws, rejecting stakeholders’ alternative recommendation.
NYISO
NYISO Operating Committee Briefs: Dec. 15, 2022
NYISO’s Operating Committee approved a winter study, tariff revisions to improve transmission study coordination and manual updates for ICLs.
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ERCOT Says ‘Sufficient’ Capacity to Meet Winter Demand
The ISO's latest seasonal assessment shows it has more than 87 GW on hand to meet a forecast peak demand of 67.4 GW this winter.
Troutman Pepper
NY TOs Seek Clarification on ROFR for Upgrades
New York TOs proposed tariff amendments that would clarify their ability to exercise a ROFR for public policy transmission network upgrade facility upgrades.
NERC
NERC Warns Winter Margins Tight in Multiple Regions
NERC staff called the Winter Reliability Assessment a “serious warning” that highlighted the possibility of “bigger problems” compared to last winter.

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