Full Title: January 2025 Arctic Events: A System Performance Review- FERC, NERC, and its Regional Entities: A Joint Staff Report
Author(s): Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Publisher(s): Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Publication Date: April 17, 2025
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Description (excerpt):
In February 2025, the Commission, NERC, and its Regional Entities launched a joint review of the Bulk-Power System’s performance during the January 2025 arctic events, which comprised Winter Storms Blair, Cora, Demi, and Enzo. The team focused on four key areas: weather conditions, operating conditions, electric grid performance, and natural gas system performance. This system performance review is backwards looking to understand what occurred and improvements made prior to and during the January 2025 arctic events; thus, this review does not assess the future performance of these natural gas and electric systems.
The team engaged with ten electric entities across the Eastern and Texas Interconnections to gather the information necessary to provide a high-level overview of the Bulk-Power System’s performance during the January 2025 arctic events. The team also collaborated with three natural gas associations in connection with its review.
Between January 21 and 22, 2025, natural gas demand peaked at 150 Bcf/day, electric demand peaked at 683 GW,2 and unplanned generator outages peaked at 71,022 MW. Nonetheless, during the January 2025 arctic events, manual load shed was not required.