Resource Adequacy
Resource adequacy is the ability of electric grid operators to supply enough electricity at the right locations, using current capacity and reserves, to meet demand. It is expressed as the probability of an outage due to insufficient capacity.
SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee continued to hash through the difficulties of reporting behind-the-meter load.
FERC issued decisions related to CAISO’s resource adequacy program and transmission service in the Pacific Northwest.
ISO-NE is increasingly reliant on natural gas-fired generation, and LNG and electricity imports to maintain reliability, a new report shows.
Another wave of arctic cold in the South has ERCOT and SPP revising their winter peak records.
FERC and grid operators will explore "resilience" following the commission’s rejection of Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposed rulemaking.
PJM stakeholders endorsed changes to how generation ownership is transferred despite a concern about a required 45-day prefiling.
California faces a “severe shortage” of transmission capacity needed to tap potential New Mexico and Wyoming wind resources, CAISO said.
While the high load and generation outages followed the pattern of the polar vortex, MISO managed to keep prices stable and maintain better reliability.
MISO’s next capacity auction will likely rely on megawatt values and limits similar to those underpinning last year’s auction.
Grid operators turned to coal- and oil-fired generation as Arctic air sent temperatures plunging to record lows from the Great Plains to the Deep South.
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