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The Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) Board of Directors met on June 11, 2026, in Saint Paul, Minnesota and via Webex for its second-quarter meetings. Discussions reflected the rapid transformation underway across…

Anyone who has worked with cattle knows that a pasture cannot sustain a herd forever. Leave cattle on the same patch of grass too long and what once seemed abundant becomes depleted. The land suffers. Good farmers understand…

For the third consecutive year, Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) has been named a Top Workplace by the Minnesota Star Tribune. This distinction is based entirely on employee feedback collected through a confidential third-party survey administered by employee engagement firm Energage LLC.

As the electric industry continues to integrate inverter-based resources (IBRs) into the bulk power system, new NERC Reliability Standards are approaching mandatory compliance dates in 2026 and 2027.

As part of Midwest Reliability Organization’s annual summer assessment, staff engineers determined that operating reserves are expected to remain sufficient under normal summer weather conditions, assuming typical maintenance schedules and planned generation outages across the region.

Find out more about NERC’s Large Load Action Plan in this new video.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Modernization of Standards Processes and Procedures Task Force (MSPPTF) has entered its implementation phase following formal acceptance of final recommendations by the NERC Board of Trustees in February 2026.

NERC’s Generating Availability Data System (commonly referred to as GADS) is a program managed by NERC to collect performance data on electric generating units (conventional, wind, solar) to analyze equipment reliability.