FERC Chair Richard Glick and NERC CEO James Robb: The West needs to build transmission lines to connect renewable resources to load.

PJM's Members and Markets and Reliability Committees discussed transmission planning in light of NERC's CIP standards as well as manual revisions.

NYISO officials briefed the Management Committee on the ISO's performance during an historic snowstorm in December last year.

MISO staff and stakeholders clashed in front of board members on whether the RTO’s proposed capacity accreditation design should move forward.

GAO urged FERC and the DOE to develop strategies for responding to increasing stresses on the electric grid from climate change.

The energy industry’s largest international gathering, CERAWeek by IHS Markit, was held virtually with “unprecedented” participation.

Steve Huntoon says grid operators should apply lessons learned from the Texas outages to ensure the lights stay on through the rest of winter.

FERC's Richard Glick said he may seek new reliability standards to ensure better preparation for severe winter conditions following prolonged outages.

ERCOT said that enough generation had returned to service to stop the rotating outages that began Feb. 15.

The inability of Midwestern grid operators to recover quickly from extreme winter weather drew customer anger, along with scrutiny from regulators.