NERC offered an upbeat report on the long-term health of the nation’s grid, celebrating results from its interconnection-wide frequency response studies.

CAISO’s 2019 revenue requirement will be less than this year’s, despite hiring and costs associated with its planned new role as reliability coordinator for most of the West.

CAISO’s efforts to rein in congestion revenue rights insufficiencies seemed to show progress, but fell short in the last months of 2018.

RTOs and ISOs filed tariff revisions to provide energy storage resources more opportunities to participate in markets in compliance with FERC Order 841.

Xcel Energy committed to providing its customers with carbon-free energy by 2050, becoming the first large investor-owned utility to make such a pledge.

SPP's Western Reliability Executive Committee pushed back against suggestions that the RTO coordinate its go-live date with that of CAISO.

California and Illinois won the top spots on the GridWise Alliance Grid Modernization Index, the group announced at the gridConnext 2018 conference.

The reliability coordinator transition in the West topped the discussion at a meeting of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council board.

California legislators will struggle with wildfire liability, while lawmakers in Washington and Nevada could debate clean energy.

FERC approved the extension of most of CAISO’s proposals to address reliability concerns posed by the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.