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Canada should expect turbulent relations with the United States to continue under the Trump administration, speakers said at the Ontario Electricity Distributors Association’s ENERCOM conference.
SPP
At the very moment grid operators are being asked to plan for unprecedented complexity, the public data infrastructure that underpins those decisions is becoming less reliable, writes columnist Dej Knuckey.
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The MISO independent market monitor is just that — independent, writes Bill Malcolm. "He should not be shown the door but should be allowed to continue to do his job and also to talk to state regulators who seek his advice."
SPP
SPP will complete its third major expansion of its RTO footprint when it begins administering the regional transmission grid under its tariff for several western organizations overnight March 31-April 1.
ENTSO-E
ENTSO-E's final report on the Iberian Peninsula blackout of April 2025 lays out the root causes and chain of events that led to the collapse of the grid, providing critiques of the numerous points of failure.
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Local distribution companies and bulk transmission system operators need to improve their alignment, IESO CEO Lesley Gallinger said at the ENERCOM 2026 conference.
Speaking generally, FERC Chair Laura Swett said that federal jurisdiction over the interconnection of large loads is very clear.
FERC Commissioner David LaCerte encouraged MISO players to bring their boldest ideas forward that could help return the electric industry to a more humdrum reliability baseline.
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In a case of déjà vu, MISO announced that NERC is poised to issue a follow-up to its Long-Term Reliability Assessment that stands to lower the RTO’s reliability vulnerability from “high risk” to “elevated.”
NERC told FERC it only received a single report of a qualifying cybersecurity incident under reliability standard CIP-008-6.
FERC approved a slate of updates to NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards intended to improve grid security while enabling the use of new technologies.
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Generation industry representatives and their allies united behind a call to loosen New York’s climate law to allow the repowering of old fossil fuel plants with new natural gas turbines at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s 40th annual Spring Conference.
The spring quarterly meeting of the ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group revolved around the growing risks of climate-driven extreme weather events in Vermont and across the broader New England region.
PacifiCorp is preparing to bring online enough long-term clean energy resources to help the utility meet Washington's strict greenhouse gas targets by 2030.
