The Midwest Reliability Organization approved appointments and policy changes at its annual meeting.

Increasing incidents of extreme weather, along with threats to cybersecurity, are pressing items identified in MRO’s draft Regional Risk Assessment.

NERC and the regional entities are proposing almost $207 million in spending in 2020, a 3.8% increase, while assessments are projected to increase by 2.9%.

The Midwest Reliability Organization Board of Directors reviewed the transition of former SPP Regional Entity members to MRO.

NERC’s Board of Trustees and Member Representatives Committee held their quarterly meetings at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta. Here are some of the highlights.

FERC and NERC are conducting a joint inquiry into the January cold snap that resulted in generation outages in MISO South.

The NERC Board of Trustees approved Wisconsin Public Service Corp.’s and Upper Michigan Energy Resources’ requests to move to ReliabilityFirst from MRO.

The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee approved the Integrated Transmission Planning process’s 2018 near-term assessment portfolio.

FERC approved the dissolution of the SPP Regional Entity and the transfer of its members to the Midwest Reliability Organization and SERC Reliability Corp.

NERC is offering the 128 Southwest Power Pool (SPP) registered entities a chance to comment after assigning them all to a new Regional Entity.