Terry Brinker, president of Reliable Energy Advisors and former NERC official, argues for cooperation to integrate distributed energy resources (DER).

A decade of mandatory standards has improved the grid’s reliability, but it’s time for regulators to prune unnecessary rules, speakers told FERC.

The ERCOT board learned that Lubbock Power & Light’s potential transition from SPP could result in as much as $77 million in increased production costs.

The North American grid was very reliable in 2016, but threats are increasing and restoration from a total system collapse could prove time-consuming.

Electric system disturbances from the loss of generation or transmission in the Western Interconnection increased by 50% between 2015 and 2016.

Planning reserve margins are expected to be adequate for a hotter-than-normal summer, FERC said in its annual summer reliability report.

CAISO will increase its daily procurement of operating reserves in response to the erroneous tripping of solar generation caused the loss of 1,200 MW.

Experts identified what may be the most dangerous cybersecurity threat yet to the U.S. power system, malware that can commandeer circuit breakers.

Barring a FERC denial, MISO says it will begin sharing gas usage profiles of gas-fired generators with three natural gas pipeline owners before winter.

Research reinforced earlier projections that MISO’s market platform will become obsolete in five to seven years, executives told members of the Board.