MISO will reconsider its penalty exemption policy for already submitted transmission outages, officials told the Reliability Subcommittee May 2.

Speakers at this year’s Western Reliability Summit discussed the growth of solar, the challenges of cybersecurity and the dangers of climate change.

The Northeast Power Coordinating Council is projecting a summer peak demand of 103,548 MW in the week of July 28, 2019 a 0.6% reduction from last year.

FERC approved SERC Reliability as the regional entity for all of Florida, replacing Florida Reliability Coordinating Council (FRCC).

FERC accepted settlements with Duquesne Light Co. and an unnamed municipal utility in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council for violations of NERC reliability standards.

The Texas Reliability Entity has revised its self-certification process to make it more efficient for registered entities.

A NERC standards drafting team has opened a final ballot on the elimination of all or parts of 18 reliability standards as Phase 1 of the organization’s standards efficiency review nears its conclusion.

The New York PSC modified its VDER compensation policy and authorized $43 million in state funding for solar and community distributed generation projects.

FERC called for two changes to NERC’s draft CIP standard governing the security of communications between control centers.

The spring joint meeting of the Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation and the Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body focused on grid reliability and protecting crucial infrastructure.