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ISO-NE energy demand has fallen 3 to 5% since stay-at-home orders began being implemented across New England around March 16, the RTO’s Load Forecasting Manager Jon Black told the New England Power Pool’s Reliability Committee on Wednesday. "System operations as well as load forecasting in planning are doing ongoing analysis...

MISO’s Advisory Committee is beginning work on a possible new process for prospective members to join the RTO. The AC is considering whether the newly formed Affiliate sector will serve as an "incubator" for designing new sectors that will allow a more diverse set of companies and organizations to join...

By Hudson Sangree The California Energy Commission boosted the state’s efforts to electrify buildings and improve the efficiency of electric appliances last week when it approved electrification and green energy ordinances in seven cities and required that swimming pool pump motors — a significant energy user in homes and hotels...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO is offering stakeholders a compromise on one of two resource adequacy proposals it will file with FERC next month, removing a provision that would eliminate capacity credits for slow-response load-modifying resources (LMRs). Zakaria Joundi, MISO’s recently appointed director of resource adequacy coordination, acknowledged he’s entering his...

PJM is "confident" it will meet FERC’s deadline for resolving pricing and dispatch misalignment issues in its fast-start pricing proposal, the RTO’s Tim Horger told the Market Implementation Committee on Wednesday. In January, FERC held PJM’s fast-start compliance filing in abeyance until July 31, after the Independent Market Monitor and...

AUSTIN, Texas — Infocast’s annual ERCOT Market Summit last week brought together nearly 300 industry representatives and policymakers to discuss the Texas grid and the challenges it faces. ERCOT CEO Bill Magness keynoted the Feb. 25-27 event, cracking wise as he reviewed the system’s performance during a pair of summers...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and ranking member Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) unveiled their long-awaited energy legislation Thursday, incorporating some 50 bills previously approved by the panel. Murkowski said the 550-page American Energy Innovation Act "is our best chance...

By Michael Brooks and Michael Kuser WASHINGTON — FERC on Thursday narrowed the resources exempt from NYISO’s buyer-side market power mitigation (BSM) rules in southeastern New York, ordering the ISO to subject storage and demand response to a minimum offer floor in its capacity market. In doing so, the commission...

By Michael Kuser FERC on Wednesday denied CPower’s two waiver requests to allow its seven summer-only distributed solar demand capacity resources to participate in ISO-NE’s Forward Capacity Auction 14 and substitution auction held last week (ER20-458). FCA 14 cleared 33,956 MW of capacity for 2023/24 after five rounds of bidding.

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will soon seek FERC approval for a proposal to tighten load-modifying resource accreditation standards for capacity auctions even as some stakeholders complain that the plan is too restrictive. MISO’s proposal would base an LMR’s accreditation on the smaller of either its tested...