The Gulf Coast Power Association’s MISO-SPP Regional Conference showcased the rush to add resources, and panelists mused on which new trends could take hold in resource expansion.

MRO's Regional Risk Assessment found uncertain energy availability to be the highest priority risk for the third year in a row.

MISO’s and SPP’s CEOs are confident their interconnection queues will be up to the task of meeting new data center load once their respective special expedited lanes wind down.

Southern Co. will receive $26.5 billion in loans to support generation and transmission upgrades.

FERC declined to suggest any minimum interregional transfer capability requirements in a report to Congress.

NERC staff acknowledged recent criticisms of the 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment while describing the challenges of performing the analysis in recent years.

DOE's senior leadership highlighted how the grid relies on fossil fuels to make it through winter peaks.

ERCOT says it leaned on Texas’ 15 mobile generating units and an RMR unit during the state’s first major cold-weather event since 2021’s disastrous Winter Storm Uri.

NERC's latest Long-Term Reliability Assessment projected more than half of all assessment areas will face high or elevated risk of energy shortfalls in the next 10 years.

The North American grid made it through the winter storm of Jan. 24-26 — dubbed “Fern” by The Weather Channel — relatively unscathed, but the cold weather gripping much of the U.S. and Canada continues, and cold snaps in the future will still stress the interconnected power and natural gas systems.