Mid-America Regulatory Conference’s annual meeting tackled climate justice, workforce diversity, Order 2222 and the ongoing solar panel investigation.

AEP Ohio customers accused the utility of racism for cutting power to poor areas of Columbus following a windstorm while continuing service to the suburbs.

More than 200,000 AEP customers in Ohio lost power after storms damaged multiple transmission lines and forced load sheds on at least three 138-kV lines.

Sweltering heat has helped ERCOT finally set a new all-time peak demand mark after several close calls during the preceding week.

ERCOT's record peak of 74.8 GW could be broken this week as above-normal temperatures continue to bake Texas.

New England is not facing the same warnings as other regions this summer, but severe heat could still force ISO-NE into emergency actions, the RTO said.

The team developing NERC's cold weather standards provided a preview of the new requirements in an industry webinar.

NERC's Standards Committee agreed to a shortened comment period for two proposed cold weather standards to meet a deadline set by the Board of Trustees.

Drought, wildfires, plant retirements and transmission outages have elevated the risk of supply shortfalls in the West, Texas, MISO and SPP, NERC said.

The heat, both weather-related and political, continues to build on ERCOT following another stress test this weekend.