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February 20, 2026

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IESO
Ontario Energy Plan Gives IESO Long ‘To Do’ List
Ontario’s newly released integrated energy plan includes a long "to do" list for grid operator IESO.
Brookfield Renewable
IESO Purchasing 3,000 MW of Energy and Capacity
IESO completed its second medium-term procurement with contracts with 27 wind and natural gas generators.
ISO-NE
ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie Announces Retirement

ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie has announced plans to step down at the end of 2025. He will be replaced by longtime ISO-NE COO Vamsi Chadalavada.

NW Council
NWPCC Appoints Former BPA Official as New Executive Director
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council hired Peter Cogswell, the former director of intergovernmental affairs at BPA, as its next executive director.
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FERC Approves Changes to PJM Capacity Deficiency Rate
FERC approved a PJM proposal to revise the penalty rate for resources that are unable to meet their capacity obligation due to a decrease to their accreditation.
SPP
FERC Accepts Revisions to SPP’s WEIS Market
FERC accepted SPP's tariff revisions to its Western Energy Imbalance Service market that allow market holds for reliability-based concerns when requested by a balancing authority.
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Calpine Sees Support for TCC Auction Proposal from NYISO Stakeholders
Calpine came to the NYISO Installed Capacity Working Group with its proposal to create on- and off-peak transmission congestion contract auctions. 
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Texas Bills Targeting Renewables Come up Short
Another Texas legislative session has ended with renewable resources and batteries having survived potentially damaging legislation that did not make it to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk.  
CAISO
Panel Ponders Impacts, Priorities Around Western Market Seams

The formation of two competing day-ahead markets will create seams across the West, but at least one utility representative is more worried about seams resulting from the fracture of CAISO’s real-time Western Energy Imbalance Market.

La. PSC
MISO Debates What-ifs, Vows Improvements in Front of La. PSC After Load Shed
MISO leadership again promised to step up the RTO’s advance communication of tight system conditions following its four-hour load-shed directive for about 600 MW in Greater New Orleans.

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