Rising natural gas prices and extreme weather pushed wholesale electricity prices higher in 2021, FERC said in its annual State of the Markets report.

ERCOT stakeholders declined to consider staff’s appeal of a tabled rule change that would create a process allowing staff to schedule planned outages.

FERC staffers praised ERCOT operators for preventing a worse catastrophe during last year’s devastating winter storm during a Talk with Texas RE webinar.

Some 67 GW of energy storage sitting in ERCOT’s interconnection queue poses a problem regulators and developers are working to address.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee approved a request to create a task force to address interconnecting large flexible loads flocking to the state.

Extreme weather events have brought “extraordinary clarity” about reliability risks posed by climate change, NERC CEO Jim Robb told an EPSA conference.

ERCOT's spring seasonal assessment of resource adequacy shows it has sufficient installed generating capacity to serve peak demand this spring.

Vistra said that its board of directors has named current CFO Jim Burke as its next CEO effective Aug. 1, replacing Curt Morgan after a transition period.

In a recent report NERC suggested that last year's winter storms hold a valuable lesson about providing greater flexibility in managing firm load shed.

ERCOT’s interim CEO Brad Jones continued his push for a gas desk before Texas legislators, who are also toying with the idea of a gas market monitor.