DOE invited applications for $6 billion in funding to improve the grid, part of the largest federal investment ever in transmission and distribution.

NERC staff called the Winter Reliability Assessment a “serious warning” that highlighted the possibility of “bigger problems” compared to last winter.

The annual NARUC meeting covered ground on rate design, energy storage and reliability while the energy portfolio undergoes renovation.

At FERC’s annual reliability technical conference, commissioners focused on work needed to prepare the bulk power system for rapidly developing challenges.

FERC approved Vistra’s request to bypass MISO’s generator interconnection procedures to quickly add battery storage projects at two retiring fossil fuel plants.

MISO is headed for another System Support Resource designation to keep a Wisconsin coal plant operating unless stakeholders present a viable alternative.

Members are proposing that MISO resurrect the Stakeholder Governance Working Group, which formerly managed MISO’s Stakeholder Governance Guide.

MISO’s Board of Directors will have the same lineup going into the new year with MISO’s membership voting in support of retaining three incumbent directors.

ITC Midwest can keep the capital structure it has had in place since 2007, FERC decided, blocking a complaint led by Alliant Energy.

MISO plans to spend $364.2 million throughout 2023, a 3.2% decrease from this year’s budget.