natural gas infrastructure

  • NERC’s 2025–2026 Winter Reliability Assessment highlights regions at elevated risk of electricity shortfalls during extreme winter conditions, including the Maritimes, New England, parts of the Southeast, Texas, and portions of the West. The striped Maritimes area indicates specific risk to natural gas pipeline capacity. Source: NERC.
    Energy Security

    NERC: Winter Grid Reliability at Risk Amid Soaring Demand, Fuel Supply Gaps

    In its recently released Winter Reliability Assessment, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) found that while resources are adequate for normal winter peak demand, large swaths of North America face an elevated risk of electricity shortfalls during prolonged, wide-area cold snaps. Noting that four severe Arctic storms have swept across much of the continent since […]

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    Legal & Regulatory

    Lawmakers Scrutinize Power Sector’s Future as Surging Demand Raises Alarms

    In a hearing that underscored the mounting challenges facing the American power sector, industry leaders warned Congress that the nation’s power infrastructure is approaching a precarious juncture as unprecedented demand growth collides with retiring baseload generation. At the House Energy Subcommittee hearing on March 5, titled “Scaling for Growth: Meeting Demand for Reliable, Affordable Electricity,” […]

  • In the 2024 LTRA, NERC finds that most of the North American bulk power system faces mounting resource adequacy challenges over the next 10 years as surging demand growth continues and thermal generators announce plans for retirement. This graphic shows NERC’s risk map with risk drivers and initial shortfall years. Courtesy: NERC
    Legal & Regulatory

    Five Critical Insights from NERC’s 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment

    Well over half of North America faces a potential shortage of electricity supplies in the coming years, compounded by surging demand growth, accelerating generator retirements, and delays in resource development, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has warned in its latest 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA). The designated electric reliability organization’s (ERO’s) annual 10-year […]

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    Energy Security

    FERC, NERC Reveal Disturbing Details from Winter Storm Elliott Inquiry

    Incremental unplanned generation outages triggered during Winter Storm Elliott spiked to 90.5 GW—significantly more than the 61.8 GW during Winter Storm Uri in 2021—representing 13% of the U.S. portion of anticipated resources in the Eastern Interconnection. That finding, one of many disturbing details unveiled by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and North American Electric […]