The Western Electricity Coordinating Council Board of Directors received a briefing on the Pacific Northwest’s early March price spike.

The increasing number of billion-dollar wildfires, floods and hurricanes has some suggesting an end to the universal service model.

California’s annual wildfire season kicked off with high winds, a heat wave and precautionary power shutoffs by PG&E to thousands of customers.

California’s annual wildfire season kicked off with high winds, a heat wave and precautionary power shutoffs by PG&E to thousands of customers.

ERCOT in April set new monthly generation records for its wind and solar fleets, producing 7,148 GWh and 408 GWh, respectively.

The Energy Bar Association annual meeting included discussions on climate change, FERC hearing processes, resources and transmission rates.

MISO is seeking to fine-tune its forecasting of wind generation as it faces the prospect of immense volumes of new capacity coming onto its system by 2023.

The New York PSC modified its VDER compensation policy and authorized $43 million in state funding for solar and community distributed generation projects.

NYISO reported that it confronted minimal operating challenges this past winter as New York enjoyed relatively mild weather for most of the season.

MISO’s most recent maximum generation emergency is yet another portent of its increasing need to rethink grid operations, execs told the Board of Directors.