NERC
Summarizing the findings from its 2025 Level 2 alert on large loads, NERC warned most entities have not met its recommendations.
Department of the Interior
The Trump administration announced energy, technology and resource deals worth $56 billion coming out of an Asia-Pacific energy security summit.
Steven Baltakatei Sandoval, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Department of Energy extended an order that will continue to keep Washington’s last remaining coal-fired plant open past its long-scheduled retirement at the end of 2025.
Grid Strategies
NERC CEO Jim Robb said in congressional testimony that while the bulk power system made it through the late January winter storm reliably, the weather highlighted how at risk it is.
Hitachi Energy
The digital world may be driving much of the growth in electricity demand, but physical limits are shaping how the industry responds. And few limits are more apparent than the shortage of transformers.
RTO Insider
LADWP
Participants in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market likely would remain subject to the market’s daily resource sufficiency evaluation even if they joined a new resource adequacy program that’s being crafted.
FERC conditionally approved SPP’s streamlined generator interconnection and long-term planning processes in what commissioners said is a “bold step” in addressing the needs of the electric system.
Arizona Public Service notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission it plans to seek operating license renewals for all three units at Palo Verde Generating Station, potentially extending operations through the mid-2060s.
ERO Insider
NERC
NERC's Reliability and Security Technical Committee approved multiple technical documents while preparing for a higher-profile role in the standards development process.
A speaker at a recent Texas RE webinar discussed the potential risks posed by the growth of artificial intelligence.
Speakers at a SERC Reliability-hosted webinar discussed the need for communication to address rapidly evolving threats to the security of electric facilities.
NetZero Insider
CAISO
CAISO is proposing new methods to address “poor quality data” from some variable energy resources in the region in order to improve grid forecasting, the ISO said in a straw proposal.
Amid uncertainty about how New England will meet rising demand in the coming decades, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued an executive order to procure 10 GW of new power and 5 GW of energy storage by 2035.
The Virginia General Assembly wrapped up its session and Democrats used the power they won in November's elections to push through bills favoring clean energy as the state faces significant load growth from data centers.
