Resource Adequacy
Resource adequacy is the ability of electric grid operators to supply enough electricity at the right locations, using current capacity and reserves, to meet demand. It is expressed as the probability of an outage due to insufficient capacity.
NYISO presented its final locational minimum installed capacity requirements for the 2025/26 capability year during the Installed Capacity Working Group’s first meeting of 2025.
NYISO’s early 2025 will likely be dominated by the Reliability Needs Assessment process again, but the year will also bring other issues.
SMR manufacturer Last Energy and the attorneys general of Texas and Utah sued the NRC alleging it did not need to license smaller reactors and asking the court to remove that requirement so small reactors can expand around the country.
New SPP CEO Lanny Nickell says the RTO's corporate culture is its "secret sauce" and the key to its success in 2025 as it tackles the grid of the future and expansion into the Western Interconnection.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro filed a complaint with FERC on behalf of the state asking the commission to revise how the maximum clearing price in PJM's capacity auction is determined.
MISO will waste no time in 2025 trying to blunt the threat of a shortage that could arrive in the summer months by encouraging new generation and enacting further resource adequacy measures.
ERCOT’s request for must-run alternatives for cost-effective solutions to the congestion problems in San Antonio did not receive any responses by a Dec. 30 deadline, putting the solicitation in serious doubt.
The California Energy Commission has updated its energy demand forecast for data centers after receiving revised figures from Pacific Gas and Electric about data center growth.
Texas regulators shelved the market design they once favored, agreeing with staff's recommendation that the performance credit mechanism results in “minimal” additional resource adequacy value.
Data centers’ voracious appetite for electricity could spike more than threefold over the next four years, rising from 4.4% of U.S. power demand in 2023 to as high as 12% in 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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