Experts say the electric grid needs heartier construction, new technology and microgrids to reduce outages from increasingly common severe weather events.

MISO's Trevor Hines told attendees at a webinar that the RTO is still identifying and working through lessons from the February winter storm.

PJM stakeholders unanimously endorsed the 2021 reserve requirement study but requested more modeling on the impacts of extreme weather conditions.

Utilities and their regulators are becoming more comfortable with direct cooperation in response to disasters, panelists told NARUC's Summer Policy Summit.

NYPSC fined Con Edison $82 million over operating “imprudence” and emergency response violations, including for its response to Tropical Storm Isaias.

FERC Chairman Richard Glick says "the time is right for the states, the region’s utilities and other key stakeholders" to form one or more Western RTOs.