MISO staff and stakeholders clashed in front of board members on whether the RTO’s proposed capacity accreditation design should move forward.

GAO urged FERC and the DOE to develop strategies for responding to increasing stresses on the electric grid from climate change.

The energy industry’s largest international gathering, CERAWeek by IHS Markit, was held virtually with “unprecedented” participation.

Steve Huntoon says grid operators should apply lessons learned from the Texas outages to ensure the lights stay on through the rest of winter.

FERC's Richard Glick said he may seek new reliability standards to ensure better preparation for severe winter conditions following prolonged outages.

ERCOT said that enough generation had returned to service to stop the rotating outages that began Feb. 15.

The inability of Midwestern grid operators to recover quickly from extreme winter weather drew customer anger, along with scrutiny from regulators.

PJM is looking to improve the deployment of synchronized reserves during a spin event, but some stakeholders questioned the timing of the issue.

NERC is accepting comment on proposed changes to several CIP reliability standards intended to “incorporate virtualization and future technologies."

The teams for two projects working to revise the same two NERC standards are considering how to merge their work after positive stakeholder feedback.