This past weekend, the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, was visible much further south than usual, including in...

When Hurricane Idalia was making its way towards Florida, electric utilities there prepared for the worst. However, electric utilities...

In the latest installment of this series on NERC’s Reliability Standards, I focus on PRC-010-2 – Undervoltage Load Shedding. It is vital...

Yesterday, much of California faced level-3 energy emergency alerts as the lingering heat wave led residents to increase their electric...

As distributed renewable energy sources increase and electric vehicles (EVs) become more commonplace, electric utilities need to...

In our last post What is a Wide Area Blackout?, we defined a wide area blackout as an incident in which part of the electric power...

Whether caused by an attack on power grid infrastructure, a design deficiency, or human error, wide area blackouts are a threat to...

In recent years some energy providers, including those in Texas, have begun offering market-based billing options. Market-based billing...

Rotating outages (a.k.a. rolling blackouts) were once the last resort during a power crisis. But in recent years, they are becoming more...

As of yesterday, February 17, 2021, around 4 million residents in Texas faced winter storm conditions and extremely cold temperatures...