Hurricane Laura’s lashing of south Louisiana and southeast Texas led MISO to implement last-resort rolling power outages.

The Texas PUC approved a timeline for winding down its COVID-19 pandemic relief program, while the state escaped significant damage from Hurricane Laura.

Observers cited dependence on imports, underperformance of natural gas and wind, and market manipulation as possible causes of California’s recent blackouts.

MISO is putting the final touches on its most expensive annual transmission investment package after a final round of planning meetings.

FERC accepted settlements by NERC between Texas RE and several entities, as well as one by WECC, for violations of FAC and CIP standards.

Transmission developer LS Power made a three-pronged attack on MISO’s cost-allocation structure with a trio of FERC filings.

CAISO presented its final proposal of its effort to make it easier for energy storage and distributed energy resources to participate in markets.

FERC defended its ruling approving bidding results in ISO-NE’s 2013/14 Winter Reliability Program in response to TransCanada Power Marketing.

FERC ordered a technical conference to investigate overlapping congestion charges imposed on pseudo-tie transactions between MISO and SPP.

The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession will significantly reduce electricity demand in California through 2023.