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President Joe Biden ordered a review of a number of critical sectors, including energy, in order to “strengthen the resilience of America’s supply chains.“ | The White House

The team working on cold weather preparedness standards confirmed that the joint inquiry by NERC and FERC into the Texas outages will not affect its schedule. | © ERO Insider

California’s energy policy leaders came together to weigh the potential impact of the state’s sharply rising electricity rates on its electrification goals. | CPUC

The Rhode Island PUC unanimously rejected a proposal from National Grid to remove barriers for low-income customers to access the benefits of clean energy. | Newport Renewables

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was sworn in as the 16th secretary of energy on Thursday after the Senate confirmed her nomination, 64-35. | C-SPAN

Texas lawmakers took their shots at ERCOT as they tried to grasp the complexities of a system that failed during an “unprecedented weather event.” | Texas House of Representatives

New PG&E Corp. CEO Patti Poppe vowed change as she laid out her vision for the state’s largest utility, which reported a loss of $1.05/share for 2020. | Tanner Hembree/USDA Forest Service

American Electric Power CEO Nick Akins called for stepped-up reliability measures following a winter storm that ravaged the Texas grid. | AEP

Last week's outages in ERCOT were on the minds of many witnesses at FERC’s technical conference on RTO/ISO credit practices. | FERC

Avangrid's CEO touted the company’s installation of nearly 620 MW of new wind projects last year and said it is poised to solidify its clean energy position in 2021. | Vineyard Wind

Maine could benefit from the designation of CREZ for building onshore wind to meet its 2030 renewable portfolio standard of 80%, according to a study. | Michael Surran, via Wikimedia

Exelon will separate its regulated transmission and distribution utilities from its merchant power generation business. | Exelon

Vicious storms and an ongoing pandemic failed to hobble year-over-year profit growth, Entergy executives said. | Entergy

A new report from the WATT Coalition argues that currently available grid-enhancing technologies could unlock gigawatts of renewables in interconnection queues. | © RTO Insider

ERCOT CEO Bill Magness detailed for the Board of Directors the events that led up to last week’s near collapse of the grid during a severe winter storm. | © RTO Insider