Power outage

Two commissioners pointed to the renewable energy shift as a key culprit in the “reliability crisis” while others called out extreme weather and drought.

“This is now a yearly cycle and we are always bracing for extreme weather without the time to catch our breaths.” “It is important that we do not think of any state or region as an island unto itself in this conversation,” Clements said. “Everything’s bad, right?” Glick said in response to a presentation on the agency’s Summer Energy Markets and Reliability Assessment, which showed the U.S. facing a hotter than normal summer. "I think that there is in the minds of some an idea that as long as we get the transmission issue correct, everything will eventually solve itself," Danly said. FERC Chairman Richard Glick agreed the grid faces reliability challenges. “We’re just not ready yet,” Christie said.