NERC’s 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) identifies reliability trends, emerging issues and potential risks to the bulk power system over a 10-year horizon. This year’s report points to the mounting reliability challenges that industry is facing — satisfying escalating energy growth, managing generator retirements and removing barriers to resource and transmission development. Recommendations to address reliability concerns include managing generator deactivations, enhancing future LTRAs with more expansive energy risk analysis, streamlining siting and permitting, promoting natural gas-electric system coordination and ensuring essential reliability services are maintained.