NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 22, 2025--
The Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Inc. (NPCC) estimates the region will have an adequate supply of electricity this winter to meet demand, according to its 2025-2026 winter reliability assessment. NPCC’s region covers New York, New England, the provinces of Ontario, Québec, and the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
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NPCC projects the regional simultaneous peak demand forecast for the entire region of 112,810 MW will occur the week of January 18, 2026. This coincidence peak demand is slightly higher than last winter’s forecast. Approximately 161,426 MW of installed capacity is projected to be in service to meet the forecasted electricity demand.
After accounting for transmission constraints, NPCC’s assessment estimates the region’s spare operable capacity (over and above reserve requirements) ranges from 15,511 to 25,177 MW over the winter period.
New England, New York, Ontario, and Québec all forecast adequate resources to meet their expected winter demand; limited use of operating procedures in the Maritimes are estimated.
A wide range of conditions were analyzed, including higher than expected demand, unexpected generation unavailability, transmission constraints, and reduced transfer capability between neighboring regions.
“The NPCC annual winter assessment provides stakeholders across our region with valuable insights to better inform system and operational planning,” said Charles Dickerson, President and Chief Executive Officer of NPCC. “It is worth noting that while NPCC expects the region will have adequate supply this winter, established procedures are available to maintain system reliability if higher than expected loads and/or additional resource outages occur (for example, resulting from extreme or protracted weather events).”
NPCC supports consistent, ongoing communications with system operators and neighboring regions to further strengthen coordination, improve situational awareness, mitigate risks, and maintain reliability.
“The completion of several transmission projects has reinforced overall regional reliability,” said Phil Fedora, NPCC’s Chief Engineer and Senior Vice President of External Affairs. “For example, the New England Clean Energy Connect is expected to be in service this winter, capable of importing up to 1,200 MW into New England from Québec.”
NPCC’s Reliability Assessment for Winter 2025-2026 is available at: Resources | NPCC.
For more information on NPCC, visit www.npcc.org.
About NPCC
Northeast Power Coordinating Council, Inc. is one of six Regional Entities located throughout the United States, Canada, and portions of Mexico that, in concert with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, seeks to assure a highly reliable, resilient, and secure North American bulk power system through the effective and efficient identification, reduction, and mitigation of reliability risks. NPCC’s geographic area includes the six New England states, the State of New York, the provinces of Ontario, Québec, and the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Overall, NPCC covers an area of nearly 1.2 million square miles, populated by approximately 62 million people.
NPCC carries out its mission through: (i) the development of regional reliability standards and compliance assessment and enforcement of continent-wide and Regional Reliability standards; (ii) coordination of system planning, design and operations, and assessment of reliability; and (iii) the establishment of Regionally specific criteria and monitoring and enforcement of compliance with such criteria.
NPCC Reliability Assessment Projects Sufficient Electricity Supply to Meet Winter Demand Across Region
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Initial drafts of U.S. proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many of Kyiv's demands, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, although he suggested that neither side in the almost four-year war is likely to get everything it wants in talks on reaching a settlement.
“Overall, it looks quite solid at this stage,” the Ukrainian leader said of recent talks with U.S. officials who are trying to steer the neighboring countries toward compromises.
“There are some things we are probably not ready for, and I’m sure there are things the Russians are not ready for either,” Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv.
U.S. President Donald Trump has for months been pushing for a peace agreement. However, the negotiations have run into sharply conflicting demands from Moscow and Kyiv. But U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday he held “productive and constructive” talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives.
Zelenskyy said that “nearly 90%” of Ukraine’s demands have been incorporated into the draft agreements.
The backbone of the proposed deal is a 20-point plan, he said. There is also a framework document on security guarantees between Ukraine, European countries, and the United States, as well as a separate document on bilateral security guarantees granted to Ukraine by the U.S.
Zelenskyy mentioned several key points, such as the Ukrainian army remaining at a peacetime level of 800,000; membership in the European Union; and European forces, under the leadership of France and the U.K. and with a “backstop” from Washington, ensuring “Ukraine’s security in the air, on land, and at sea.”
“Some key countries will provide presence in these domains; others will contribute to energy security, finance, bomb shelters, and so on,” the Ukrainian president said.
Ukraine is arguing that the bilateral document with U.S. should be reviewed by the U.S. Congress, with some details and annexes kept classified, Zelenskyy said.
The U.S. team is now in talks with Russian envoys, and Washington has asked that no details be released, he added.
Zelenskyy said Monday he met with his military commanders who reported that defensive lines are holding firm against the Russian onslaught.
“In (recent) weeks, the Russian army has significantly increased the intensity of attacks, and the number of Russian losses has increased accordingly,” he said in a post on Telegram.
Ukrainian forces hit an oil terminal, a pipeline, two parked jet fighters and two ships in a series of strikes on Russian soil, officials said Monday.
The attacks are part of an ongoing campaign to disrupt the Russian war effort and sow fear behind the front line, where outnumbered Ukrainian troops are straining to hold back Russia’s bigger army.
The strikes also seek to undermine President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to portray Russia as negotiating from a position of military strength in U.S.-led peace efforts, which have yet to make a breakthrough on key points.
The killing of a top Russian general by a car bomb in Moscow on Monday, with investigators suspecting Ukraine was behind it, could be another instance of Kyiv picking surprise targets.
Ukrainian forces struck the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal, an ammunition depot and a launch site for attack drones inside Russian territory and Russian-held Ukrainian territory, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a statement Monday.
A pipeline, two docks and two ships were damaged in the southern Krasnodar region, and a large blaze broke out, the statement said, without specifying what kind of weapons were used in the attack.
It added that a Ukrainian-made missile also hit a temporary base for Russia's 92nd River Boat Brigade in Olenivka, in the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
A separate strike targeted an ammunition depot in a Russian-controlled portion of the Donetsk region, aiming to slow the Russian advance there, the General Staff said. A Russian launch site for attack drones was also hit.
Ukrainian partisans set fire to two Russian jet fighters in an operation on Sunday evening at a base near Lipetsk, a city in western Russia, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said only that its forces shot down 41 Ukrainian drones overnight, three of them over the Krasnodar region.
Meanwhile, Russian forces kept up their targeting of Ukraine’s energy sector, aiming to deprive civilians of heat and running water during the frigid winter. Russia has tried to knock out power in Ukraine throughout the war, in a tactic that Ukraine refers to as “weaponizing winter.”
Energy infrastructure across five regions were attacked during the night, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said.
Russia struck Ukraine with 86 drones of different types overnight, Ukraine’s air force said. Ukrainian forces stopped 58 of them, it said.
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In this photo taken on Saturday Dec. 20, 2025 and provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, ruins in the town of Kostyantynivka, the site of heavy battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)
In this photo taken on Saturday Dec. 20, 2025 and provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, ruins of buildings in the town of Kostyantynivka, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)
In this photo taken on Saturday Dec. 20, 2025 and provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, a soldier walks through the ruins of the town of Kostyantynivka, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)
