Columnist Steve Huntoon remains wary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy's proposed 10 GW of emergency generation to solve Texas' resource adequacy issues.

Competitive Power Ventures celebrated the opening of its new Towantic Energy Center, an 805-MW combined cycle gas-fired power plant in Oxford, Conn.

New England regulators agreed that their region faces a growing winter reliability challenge but expressed skepticism over ISO-NE’s proposed solutions.

Midwest gas-fired generators have made incremental improvements to ensure fuel supply over the past year, MISO stakeholders learned.

Grid operators turned to coal- and oil-fired generation as Arctic air sent temperatures plunging to record lows from the Great Plains to the Deep South.

A NERC report finds that the grid’s dependence on gas-fired generation will require pipeline outages to factor more heavily into reliability planning.

At the NYISO Management Committee, the RTO said that it declared a major emergency on May 21 after the loss of 1,000 MW of generation in ISO-NE.

FERC rejected Dominion Resources’ request to recover almost $400,000 in uncompensated costs incurred when it ran four dual-fuel units on fuel oil.