Portland General Electric pre-emptively cut power to about 5,000 customers in the first public safety power shutoffs to affect Oregon.

Amid another heat wave and raging wildfires, CAISO called for massive conservation efforts and aid from neighboring utilities.

ISO-NE is proposing an installed capacity requirement of 34,153 MW for Forward Capacity Auction 15, a 722-MW increase over FCA 14.

SPP will add eight generating resources that are part of Gridforce’s balancing authority to its reliability coordinator footprint.

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

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

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

Hurricane Laura’s impending landfall along the Gulf Coast has MISO, Entergy, SPP and ERCOT bracing for grid impacts.

The fall season when utility equipment tends to start fires is coming and regulators and reliability coordinators want utilities to be ready.

CAISO declared a Stage 3 emergency, ordering rolling blackouts across the service territories of the state's three big investor-owned utilities.