NARUC's annual Summer Policy Summit attracted more than 1,000 attendees for discussions on understanding and preparing for the challenges that lie ahead.

CAISO issued its first energy emergency alert of the summer after falling short on ramping capacity as solar output rolled off its system.  

NERC’s Standards Committee moved forward on several standards projects, including ones on planning for extreme temperatures and providing information on DERs.

NERC and E-ISAC executive Manny Cancel testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee about cyber and physical threats to the North American power grid.

ReliabilityFirst staff urged utilities to take advantage of the regional entity's voluntary winter preparedness consultations.

The committee discussed future energy deficiencies in New York City, NYISO's demand curve reset and impacts from extreme weather in the region.

NERC's Finance and Audit Committee approved a plan to fund the interregional transfer study that Congress ordered in June.

NAESB is wrapping up a process to develop recommendations to improve coordination between the natural gas and electric industries, which needs to be improved after it contributed to recent cold weather reliability events.