PG&E named the former head of the TVA as its CEO and assembled a “refreshed” board of 13 directors including people with FERC and EIM experience.
The Western Energy Imbalance Market continued expanding as the Sacramento Municipal Utility District became the first publicly-owned utility to begin participating in CAISO’s real-time electricity market for the West.
FERC rejected a CAISO plan to change incentive rules under its resource adequacy mechanism for wind and solar generation.
MISO must flesh out more details around its already lengthy proposal for allowing energy storage resources to participate in its markets, FERC said.
FERC conditionally accepted MISO’s address to an inherent conflict within its Tariff related to the termination of generator interconnection agreements.
Transportation Security Administration officials defended efforts to protect the country’s natural gas pipelines, telling FERC they are adding more staff.
FERC granted MISO permission to implement the remaining two proposals in its three-part short-term resource availability and need project.
ERCOT's Technical Advisory Committee tabled a request to lower the grid operator’s peaker net margin threshold pending further direction from the Texas PUC.
Despite record-high capacity factors and reduced operating costs, the U.S. nuclear power industry is threatened by federal and state policies and an "increasingly distorted" energy market, NEI CEO Maria Korsnick said.
ERCOT market participants grilled staff over the grid operator’s requests duriing an early March cold-weather event that did not require emergency actions.