ERCOT stakeholders used their first Technical Advisory Committee meeting of 2026 to mark the committee’s 30 years of existence and achievements, sharing memories of their work together and recognizing members.

As extreme winter weather descended on the Eastern U.S. and Canada, Hydro-Québec suspended power exports to New England on the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line because of reliability concerns in Québec.

The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee and Members Committee endorsed the RTO’s recommended installed reserve margin and forecast pool requirement for the third 2026/27 Incremental Auction.

PJM presented manual revisions to clarify how resources are defined as offline for the purpose of determining whether they are eligible for lost opportunity cost credits.

PJM stakeholders kicked off discussions on creating a “backstop” auction to be held in September at the insistence of the Trump administration and the governors of the RTO’s 13 states.

The winter storm that moved through Texas and much of the Eastern Interconnection cut power to hundreds of thousands of people and stressed the bulk power system, but did not create major disruptions like other storms earlier this decade.

Alison Williams of Power for Tomorrow argues that vertically integrated utilities are shielding customers from price spikes while supporting economic growth.

The California Energy Commission signed off on a forecast showing the state's electricity consumption could surge by as much as 61% over the next 20 years, mostly from increased EV adoption.

FERC rejected a rehearing request of its order approving SPP’s proposed one-time accelerated study of shovel-ready interconnection requests, sustaining its original 2025 decision.