The Bonneville Power Administration’s first day-ahead markets workshop since issuing the draft policy stating its intention to join SPP’s Markets+ left little opportunity for critics to probe agency officials about the decision.

A study of SPP’s future energy and resource needs has found the grid operator will have to rely on thermal generation to maintain grid reliability into midcentury, but it will come at a cost.

Entities reported three attempted cyber intrusions to the E-ISAC in 2024, and NERC said the incidents showed attackers are growing their capabilities.

While NYISO operated reliably last winter, the season provided “continued examples of limited flexibility on the gas system,” ISO staff told the Operating Committee.

FERC again decided that neither MISO nor Montana-Dakota Utilities are entitled to recourse over a MISO-SPP flowgate in North Dakota strained by a cryptocurrency mining facility.

FERC accepted SPP’s proposed tariff revisions to incorporate a mark-to-auction collateral requirement for its transmission congestion rights market but did not terminate a show-cause proceeding.

Representatives of electric utilities and manufacturers provided feedback on proposed supply chain risk management standards at a workshop hosted by FERC and NERC.

An ACORE report says solar and wind can be deployed cheaply and quickly to meet the country’s rapidly escalating demand growth, while providing support for natural gas and nuclear plants.

PJM’s Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed two proposals to revise the RTO’s ELCC formula to add two new generation categories and limit the penalties resources face if their accreditation declines between auctions.