FERC members hint at move to compensate electric grid reliability

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Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are hinting that the independent government agency likely will take some type of action to better value the resilience that certain power plants provide to the electric grid, based on what grid operators report this week.

The nation’s federally overseen grid operators, which run about 70 percent of the nation’s power supply, will report to FERC Friday on the state of the nation’s grid resilience, or its ability to bounce back from a major disruption such as this year’s bomb cyclone in the Northeast.

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