Ensuring access to testing and PPE for frontline workers is one of the key challenges to reliable operation during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to NERC.

MISO’s Advisory Committee is beginning work on a possible new process for prospective members to join the RTO.

NYISO floated a plan that would provide hybrid storage resources three options for participating in its energy and capacity markets.

MISO is stepping up efforts to understand how markets will function with the possible participation of heavy concentrations of distributed energy resources.

Lower natural gas prices and increased renewable penetration pushed wholesale power prices down sharply in most of the country last year.

The NYISO Business Issues Committee approved Tariff changes on energy storage and load forecast revisions to account for behind-the-meter net generation.

NERC’s Operating, Planning and Critical Infrastructure Planning committees gathered for their last meetings before turning functions over to the new RSTC.

WECC should zero in on issues specific to the Western system when it sets near-term priorities for 2021 and 2022, stakeholders said at a workshop.

The growth of DER means the MISO grid will become increasingly fraught with planning challenges that require target responses, stakeholders heard.

About 200 people attended the Energy Storage Association's annual Policy Forum at the National Press Club in D.C.