ISO-NE experienced record-low demand on Easter Sunday because of mild temperatures and high behind-the-meter solar output, making 2025 the fourth consecutive year ISO-NE has set a low-load record.

ISO-NE has significantly lowered its peak load and net energy expectations in its final 2025 10-year load forecast but still predicts the region’s peak load to grow by over 2 GW by 2034.

ERCOT stakeholders endorsed a protocol change that creates a process to compensate market participants when a constrained management plan or switching instruction trips a generator that otherwise would have stayed online.

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The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed a proposal to rework how resources are compensated for providing black start service the RTO says will provide more predictable revenues for participating market sellers.

A Washington state man who already was accused of damaging electric substations in Oregon now is charged with attacking multiple facilities in his home state.

Markets+ stakeholders will have little opportunity to ease up in coming months despite a wave of favorable developments for the market.

 

MISO’s 2025/26 capacity auction returned $666.50/MW-day prices across all zones in the summer, reinforcing the need for members to build new generation fast, the grid operator said.