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Regulators Past and Present Ask MISO for Public Findings on IMM Link to LRTP Complaint

The MISO Board of Directors in session March 26

Mar 31, 2026MISOAmanda Durish Cook

A sitting state commissioner and two former regulators have asked MISO to publicly share any information it might gather on its Independent Market Monitor’s possible involvement in a five-state complaint against the RTO’s long-range transmission planning.

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The Farmington Solar Energy Center in Farmington, Maine

NextEra Energy

FERC Approves ISO-NE Prompt Capacity Market

Mar 31, 2026ISO-NEJon Lamson

FERC approved ISO-NE’s proposal to replace its Forward Capacity Market with a prompt market, cutting the time between auctions and commitment periods from more than three years to about one month.

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Draft Nevada PUC Order Would Allow NV Energy to Join EDAM

Mar 31, 2026CAISO/WEIMElaine Goodman

A draft order from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada signals that the commission is likely to approve NV Energy’s participation in CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.

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NERC's standards are inadequate to protect the electric grid from solar storms encountered in the past, much less theoretical EMP events, CSP and STG argued.

CSP/STG

NERC Pushes Back on GIC Complaint

Mar 31, 2026FERC & FederalHolden Mann

NERC asked FERC to deny a request to mandate studies on the grid's vulnerability to electromagnetic pulses and solar storms, saying its current reliability standards are sufficient.

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed a set of bills on March 31, which were passed by the legislature earlier in the year.

Office of the Governor of Virginia

Spanberger Highlights Affordability in Newly Enacted Laws

Mar 31, 2026State and Local PolicyJames Downing

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed the first set of bills of her tenure, including a number of energy provisions passed at the recent legislative session.

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Entergy Louisiana Says 7 More Gas Plants Necessary for Meta Data Center

Mar 31, 2026Company NewsAmanda Durish Cook

Entergy announced a massive addition to Meta's Hyperion AI data center project in northeastern Louisiana and plans to add seven additional natural gas plants to deliver more than 5 GW to power the site.

Mich. PSC Won’t Reopen DTE’s Stargate Data Center Supply Deal over AG’s Concerns

Mar 31, 2026MISOAmanda Durish Cook

The Michigan Public Service Commission unanimously rejected requests from Attorney General Dana Nessel to reassess DTE Energy’s arrangement to provide 1.4 GW to Oracle and OpenAI’s Stargate data center plans south of Ann Arbor.

Competition, Industrial Groups Contest MISO Plan for Long-range Tx Stretching into PJM

Mar 31, 2026MISOAmanda Durish Cook

The Electricity Transmission Competition Coalition and the Industrial Energy Consumers of America have mounted a challenge to MISO’s proposed method for building portions of long-range transmission projects that cross into PJM.

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Georgia Power to Pay $175K in NERC Penalties

Mar 30, 2026Regional EntitiesHolden Mann

FERC approved a settlement between Georgia Power and SERC Reliability that will see the utility pay $175,000 for violating NERC's reliability standards.

SERC Members/Board Meeting Briefs: March 25, 2026

Mar 30, 2026Regional EntitiesMichael Brooks

Representatives of Florida Power & Light urged fellow SERC Reliability members to start using artificial intelligence tools, even in their own personal lives, warning that its use on the grid is spreading too rapidly to not understand how it works.

Report: Poor Voltage Control, Lack of Regs Drove Iberian Grid Collapse

Mar 26, 2026ERO InsiderMichael Brooks

ENTSO-E's final report on the Iberian Peninsula blackout of April 2025 lays out the root causes and chain of events that led to the collapse of the grid, providing critiques of the numerous points of failure.

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IPPNY / Tim Raab

Generation Industry Calls for Repowering at IPPNY Conference

Mar 26, 2026State and Local PolicyVincent Gabrielle

Generation industry representatives and their allies united behind a call to loosen New York’s climate law to allow the repowering of old fossil fuel plants with new natural gas turbines at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s 40th annual Spring Conference.

ISO-NE CLG Speakers Stress Grid Resilience amid Climate Damage

Mar 26, 2026State and Local PolicyJon Lamson

The spring quarterly meeting of the ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group revolved around the growing risks of climate-driven extreme weather events in Vermont and across the broader New England region.

PacifiCorp on Track to Meet Wash. 2030 Clean Energy Targets

Mar 25, 2026Company NewsHenrik Nilsson

PacifiCorp is preparing to bring online enough long-term clean energy resources to help the utility meet Washington's strict greenhouse gas targets by 2030.

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SEPA Tracks 77 Large Load Tariffs Nationally with DELTa Database

Mar 31, 2026MarketsJames Downing

SEPA released an update to a database it created to track large load tariffs, which are spreading faster as large load customers proliferate.

Stakeholders Question IESO Changes for Non-quick-start Units

Mar 30, 2026IESORich Heidorn Jr.

IESO’s plan to change the initialization logic for non-quick-start resources left some stakeholders wondering why.

PJM MRC/MC Briefs: March 25, 2026

Mar 30, 2026PJMDevin Leith-Yessian

PJM presented the Markets and Reliability Committee with a first read on a proposal to establish penalties for load management and price-responsive demand resources that do not perform during pre-emergency events

PJM Forms Task Force to Explore Large Load Curtailment

Mar 30, 2026MarketsDevin Leith-Yessian

PJM is forming a task force to explore how new data centers can be required to curtail if they interconnect before there is sufficient capacity and transmission capability.

A project with a maximum contract capacity of 100 MW could face $300,000 to $5 million in liquidated damages for falling short of promises on Canadian content.

IESO

IESO’s Long Lead-Time Procurement Faces Potential Delay

Mar 30, 2026IESORich Heidorn Jr.

IESO’s Long Lead-Time procurement may be delayed beyond its planned April launch because the ISO still is awaiting a directive from the Ministry of Energy and Mines.

In a collaboration with Southern California Edison, ThinkLabs AI produced engineering reports in minutes that formerly took weeks.

Edison International / ThinkLabs AI

From Weeks to Minutes: AI’s Potential to Replace Utility Planning and Operational Processes

Mar 30, 2026IESORich Heidorn Jr.

Artificial intelligence will replace most traditional utility planning and operational processes within a decade, says Josh Wong, CEO of ThinkLabs AI.

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MISO: NERC to Dial Down RTO’s Risk Level; Members Create Large Load Working Group

Mar 25, 2026NERC & CommitteesAmanda Durish Cook

In a case of déjà vu, MISO announced that NERC is poised to issue a follow-up to its Long-Term Reliability Assessment that stands to lower the RTO’s reliability vulnerability from “high risk” to “elevated.”

NERC: Cyber Event Reports Continued Decline in 2025

Mar 24, 2026Regional EntitiesHolden Mann

NERC told FERC it only received a single report of a qualifying cybersecurity incident under reliability standard CIP-008-6.

FERC Approves Multiple Cyber Standards

Mar 19, 2026FERC & FederalHolden Mann

FERC approved a slate of updates to NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection standards intended to improve grid security while enabling the use of new technologies.

NERC to Trial MSPPTF Recommendations in Large Loads Project

Mar 18, 2026NERC & CommitteesHolden Mann

A new standards development project will be a testbed for some of the proposals by NERC's Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force.

Grid Strategies

House Energy Committee Probes Grid’s Performance During Winter Storm

Mar 17, 2026Resource AdequacyJames Downing

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.

Overhead view of a large power transformer ready for delivery

Hitachi Energy

Transform the Physical Energy System to Unleash its Digital Transition

Mar 17, 2026FERC & FederalDej Knuckey

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.

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SPP Joint ESWG-TWG Face-To-Face

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SPP's Coordination Center uses real-time and forward-looking weather data to manage grid operations.

SPP

As Public Data Shrinks, Private Climate Models will Shape the Grid’s Future

Mar 29, 2026TechnologyDej Knuckey

At the very moment grid operators are being asked to plan for unprecedented complexity, the public data infrastructure that underpins those decisions is becoming less reliable, writes columnist Dej Knuckey.

Wash. Utilities Race to Break Ground Before Renewable Tax Credits Expire

Mar 23, 2026Federal PolicyHenrik Nilsson

Puget Sound Energy and Avista told the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission they have taken steps to build clean energy resources quickly to qualify for expiring federal tax credits, while voicing concern that limited transmission capacity and the state’s greenhouse gas targets pose challenges.

Interior Department to Reimburse Nearly $1B to Stop 2 Offshore Wind Projects

Mar 23, 2026Federal PolicyTom Kleckner

The Department of the Interior announced an agreement with TotalEnergies for the company to give up offshore wind leases.

Self-reinforcing Market Paralysis Seen in Nuclear Power Supply Chain

Mar 20, 2026Federal PolicyJohn Cropley

A new report by a nuclear advocacy organization lays out some of the obstacles facing the imagined U.S. nuclear renaissance and suggests ways to address them.

Craig Generating Station in Moffat County, Colo.

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Petitions Filed to Overturn DOE’s Craig Coal Plant Extension

Mar 19, 2026Federal PolicyElaine Goodman

Challenges are piling up to Trump administration orders to keep retiring coal plants online, as the Colorado attorney general and environmental groups have filed petitions to overturn an extension of Craig Station Unit 1.

Gowanus barge-mounted natural gas generating station in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Astoria Generating Company

AlphaGen Proposes Repowering Peakers to Meet NYC Reliability Need

Mar 19, 2026State and Local PolicyVincent Gabrielle

Alpha Generation, owner and operator of the Gowanus and Narrows floating power plants in New York City, has proposed replacing the six peaking units with three lower-emitting ones in response to Consolidated Edison’s solicitation for solutions to the city’s reliability need.