The U.S. power grid is so complex that trivial changes are hard to comprehend and harder to implement. Yet, a recent announcement by the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is closer to historic than trivial, making it a good case study for a more integrated and efficient grid.

The era of renewables marks a substantial shift in the dynamics of power grids. Today’s dispatchable generation isn’t just operating to meet the relatively predictable slope of demand, but to seamlessly match the ever-shifting puzzle edge of net load.

Recently, the Texas grid has caught the attention of the energy industry due to unseasonably warm temperatures and ERCOT's release of a new market product, the first in over a decade.

Last week's wildfires in Canada produced a significant amount of smoke that drifted into the United States. How did this affect the electrical grid?

Nearly instantaneously, a significant portion of nuclear generation in New England disappeared. This abrupt outage created measurable effects across the grid that we explore in this post.

While CAISO continues to set renewable generation records, there are worrying signs of regional balkanization of flexibility which could increase fossil fuel generation in an era when many BAs in the West are trying to do the opposite.

We are excited to share that the Grid Status Blog is currently in the "interconnection queue". We're working on our synchronization and will be up and running soon.