NERC has recommended a $10M fine on a utility for violations of critical infrastructure protection reliability standards over more than three years.

NYISO last month incorporated additional 115-kV transmission facilities in its energy market model, COO Rick Gonzales told the Management Committee.

A dangerous cold snap spurred a maximum generation event and knocked out power to MISO’s Carmel, Ind., offices on Wednesday.

An SPP group has been unable to reach a consensus on possible revisions to cost-allocation rules for wind-rich areas and may table their year-long review.

The NERC Standards Committee unanimously voted to authorize the standards drafting team to consider the retirements of more than 30 reliability standards.

SPP stakeholders approved changes to the RTO’s generator interconnection process to simplify what had become a burdensome process involving repetitive data.

CAISO said it had finalized agreements to provide reliability coordinator services with 32 transmission operators and balancing authorities in the West.

SPP will this year begin providing reliability coordinator services to more than a dozen entities in the Western Interconnection.

CAISO will tackle its new role as reliability coordinator in 2019, and California lawmakers will struggle with preventing wildfires sparked by power lines.

A GAO report on geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) found a lack of consensus on how much of a risk they pose to U.S. electric grid reliability.