In its first in-person meeting since the start of the pandemic, NERC’s Reliability and Security Technical Committee gathered this week in St. Paul.

NYISO spent $2.5 million on raises for about 300 staffers to encourage retention; the ISO also proposed a $32 million project budget for 2023, a $5 million cut.

FERC accepted ISO-NE’s proposed changes to its process for interconnecting distributed energy resources, finding them just and reasonable with some revisions.

NERC’s SPIDER Working Group warns that traditional approaches to power system planning analysis may not be adequate for the spread of DERs.

The Biden administration is looking to boost energy service performance contracts for federal buildings after a decline in their use during the Trump years.

The Department of Energy plans to fund up to 10 projects to demonstrate the ability of renewable energy resources to meet U.S. energy needs reliably.

NYISO filed a request with FERC for a 90-day extension of the Aug. 16 compliance deadline for Order 2222 and a separate request regarding operating reserves.

PG&E and Tesla have asked owners of Powerwall batteries to be part of an aggregated storage program to help California meet its reliability challenges.

The heat is back on in Texas after a brief respite, with ERCOT again setting records as peak demand reaches the extreme levels of ISO's predictions.

ISO-NE proposed to FERC that all new distributed energy resources go through state interconnection processes, rather than TOs determining which process.