Grid Security & Reliability: Page 22
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Bipartisan House lawmakers to reintroduce grid security bill after Texas outages, SolarWinds attack
The Grid Security Research and Development Act was passed last year by the House but was later withdrawn due to procedural issues.
By Robert Walton • March 19, 2021 -
Solar makes up majority of new resource additions for 2nd year in a row, reaching record 19.2 GW
With residential installations booming and expected to triple by 2030, Wood Mackenzie reported the largest year on record for utility-scale solar installations in the U.S.
By Iulia Gheorghiu • March 17, 2021 -
Explore the Trendline➔
Mario Tama / Staff via Getty ImagesTrendlineGrid Resiliency
Utilities and grid operators are facing increasing threats from climate change as well as cyber and physical attacks, and are deploying a variety of responses to meet the rising challenges.
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Analysts point to $500B investment gap in climate resilience for electric utilities
Investor owned utilities in the U.S. are seeing a gap in investment to adequately prepare energy systems for a changing environment, ICF said in a new report.
By Iulia Gheorghiu • March 9, 2021 -
California proposes enhanced oversight of PG&E as concerns rise over wildfire mitigation
The process is based on six steps triggered by certain events and could potentially lead to the commission reviewing — and possibly revoking — PG&E’s operational certification down the road.
By Kavya Balaraman • Feb. 26, 2021 -
Opinion
Utilities need to harden the grid as they green it. Consumers aren't ready for the cost
Federal funding for grid modernization and decarbonization is the way to ensure events like the Texas blackouts don’t happen again.
By Stephanie Eyocko • Feb. 26, 2021 -
Deep Dive
Possible hundreds of billions in US power sector securitizations spur ratepayer protection debate
Securitization can ease impacts of COVID-19 moratoria debt, stranded asset costs, and extreme weather losses, but bankers and regulators agree that customer costs need oversight.
By Herman K. Trabish • Feb. 22, 2021 -
Residents' climate anecdotes to inform San Diego resilience plan
Following hazard vulnerability assessments, the city is nearing a resilience draft plan focused on wildfires, sea level rise, extreme heat and flooding.
By Maria Rachal • Feb. 22, 2021 -
FERC closes resilience docket opened in response to DOE coal, nuclear bailout proposal
The decision comes amid rolling outages that have plagued Texas, and Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, in his sole dissent, said the docket was precisely the right place to examine these and other reliability issues.
By Catherine Morehouse • Feb. 19, 2021 -
California IOUs plan to spend $11B on wildfire prevention in 2021 and 2022 after record-breaking fire season
The utilities are also aiming to reduce the impact of wildfire-related safety shut-offs on their customers.
By Kavya Balaraman • Feb. 9, 2021 -
Boston kicks off community choice electricity program, aiming to surpass state's renewables requirement
The Massachusetts capital now becomes a key East Coast adopter of a locally driven utility model championed in major California and Ohio cities — its latest effort toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.
By Maria Rachal • Feb. 1, 2021 -
California regulators express 'deep concern' over SCE 2020 power shutoff practices
Concerns include a lack of transparency around the utility's decision-making processes and coordination with state and local government entities.
By Kavya Balaraman • Jan. 27, 2021 -
SCE settles 2018 wildfire insurance claims for $2.2B, faces potential fines over energy efficiency program
The utility has now resolved all subrogation claims related to the 2017 and 2018 fires and mudslides, according to Edison International's CEO.
By Kavya Balaraman • Jan. 26, 2021
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