The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) recently issued 2014 Summer Reliability Assessment predicts that New England should be able to meet its peak summer electricity demands this year. NERC expects the region to have 30,769 MW of existing-certain generation on hand to meet a peak demand of 25,958 MW during the week of July 13, 2014. NERC believes that electric grids throughout the continent should be able to meet their peak summer demands this year, although parts of Texas have just enough extra generating capacity to meet NERC’s recommended reserve levels.
NERC is an international regulatory authority established to evaluate and improve the reliability of North America’s bulk power system. Among other things, it develops and enforces reliability standards and annually assesses seasonal and long-term reliability.
