More than half of the U.S. coal fleet could be retired by 2025 to reduce emissions and generating costs, with no harm to reliability, according to RMI.

NERC and the regional entities pushed back on FERC’s proposal to shorten the time between the organization’s performance assessments from 5 years to 3.

WECC found the southern portion of the Northwest Power Pool region could fail to meet resource adequacy requirements for 3 hours this year.

The cybersecurity lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic must not be forgotten as stakeholders return to normal operations, representatives from Texas RE warned.

NERC’s Reliability and Security Technical Committee took a number of actions regarding DER standards and committee subgroups in a two-day meeting.

WECC stakeholders expressed their displeasure with a revised proposal to revamp its committee structure and appoint a new Committee Review Body.

FERC has accepted a settlement between WECC and NorthWestern Energy for violations of NERC reliability standards, under which the utility will pay $205,000.

The team working on winter preparedness standards confirmed that the joint inquiry by NERC and FERC into the Texas outages will not affect its schedule.

President Joe Biden ordered a review of a number of critical sectors, including energy, in order to “strengthen the resilience of America’s supply chains.“

NARUC released a guideline stating that public utility commissions must play a role in building their organizations’ cybersecurity expertise.