Stakeholders mostly said the recommendations to update NERC's standards development process represented a good start but needed further development to ensure a fair process.

PJM, Voltus and the RTO’s Independent Market Monitor presented proposals to establish penalties for demand response and price-responsive demand resources that fail to perform during a pre-emergency load management event.

While PJM experienced some of its highest peak loads ever during the late January winter storm, it overestimated load, with relatively high load forecasting errors, RTO officials told the Operating Committee.

Offshore wind experts urged the California Public Utilities Commission to reconsider a forecasted 6-year delay to the Golden State’s offshore wind project in Humboldt County.

An alternative to connecting a large data center load to the electrical grid is a private, fully off-grid energy system, writes Travis Fisher of Cato.

In Massachusetts, a state with some of the most ambitious decarbonization policies in the country, fundamental disagreements between utilities and consumer advocates threaten to derail the transition from natural gas before it even gets off the ground.

The PJM Operating Committee endorsed a set of manual revisions to implement ambient-adjusted line ratings.

MISO state regulators are considering asking the RTO to keep tabs on resource adequacy risk indicators as they contemplate crafting a replacement standard in the footprint.

The challenges and opportunities of meeting demand from new large loads like data centers took center stage at the National Association of State Energy Officials’ recent Energy Policy Conference.

Members of the Organization of MISO States sent a letter to contradict aspects of NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment, disputing the ERO’s label of MISO as being at “high risk.”