Hundreds of thousands of electric utility customers lost electric power Dec. 18 as wind and rain hit the Northeast.

NERC's Long-Term Reliability Assessment sees some risk for reliability issues in most of the country as the industry has to deal with faster demand growth and shifting supplies of generation.

As the transition to clean energy contributes to the risk of energy shortfalls, electric industry stakeholders say keeping the grid operating reliably will require new ways of thinking.

Speakers on an ACORE webinar warned that the national security risks of electricity outages at military bases is unappreciated.

MISO CEO John Bear and PJM CEO Manu Asthana expressed concerns about gas-fired resources retiring prematurely at NARUC's Annual Meeting in California.

Higher-than-average temperatures in the U.S. could reduce electricity and natural gas demand and help prevent shortfalls this winter, FERC staff said in the commission's Winter Energy Market and Electric Reliability Assessment.

FERC hosted a senior EPA staffer and heard from the industry and states on how the environmental regulator's latest proposal to cut carbon emissions from  power plants will impact grid reliability as it is implemented.

NERC's Winter Reliability Assessment found large portions of the electric grid at risk of energy shortfalls this winter.

FERC is hosting a review of EPA's proposed power plant rule, and the different sides of the debate got their views in early.

FERC Chair Willie Phillips and NERC CEO James Robb wrote in joint comments that they have "serious concerns" about Everett's retirement.