FERC will be closely monitoring ERCOT and Southern California this summer as most of the country faces the likelihood of above-normal temperatures.

The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to allow Southern California Gas to temporarily increase gas injections into Aliso Canyon.

The PJM Operating Committee unanimously approved revisions to Manual 14D to tighten the notification rules for transferring the ownership of generation units.

As they have in the past four years, the trends in natural gas dominated the discussion of FERC’s annual State of the Markets report.

FERC will open a 60-day comment period on potential changes to its policy statement on the permitting of natural gas pipelines.

MISO challenged a 2017 NERC assessment that found two areas in the RTO would challenges during a disruption of natural gas delivery.

With the exception of three nor’easters, system operations in March were relatively uneventful, PJM told Operating Committee meeting attendees.

FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said ISO New England (ISO-NE) needs to overcome its aversion to new energy infrastructure to avoid natural gas shortages in the winter.

RTO officials asked FERC to allow their stakeholder processes time to develop additional resilience measures and to require more gas-electric coordination.

ISO-NE is racing to relieve natural gas pipelines constraints and interconnect new resources, CEO Gordon van Welie said.