FERC accepted five new reliability standards setting requirements for model validation and data sharing for inverter-based resources.

Massachusetts could decarbonize its peaking power portfolio by 2050 through aggressive deployment of wind, batteries and demand flexibility, according to a new analysis by a group of environmental nonprofits.

Just a few weeks after taking over as CEO of ISO-NE, Vamsi Chadalavada faced a trial-by-fire introduction to the job.

With Winter Storm Fern, we learned, once again, that our nation’s power grids rely on a significant fossil mix when the weather turns nasty, writes columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler.

ISO-NE updated stakeholders on its methods for assessing the impacts of its proposed capacity market overhaul as it prepares to release the initial results of the long-awaited analysis.

With costs associated with ISO-NE’s new day-ahead ancillary services market far exceeding expectations, the RTO is working to fast-track changes to improve the efficiency of the market in time for next winter.

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.

Conflicting political and market forces have created major uncertainty about what the next wave of generation project will look like in New England.

The North American grid made it through the winter storm of Jan. 24-26 — dubbed “Fern” by The Weather Channel — relatively unscathed, but the cold weather gripping much of the U.S. and Canada continues, and cold snaps in the future will still stress the interconnected power and natural gas systems.