The Texas Public Utility Commission filed a proposed rule change that would establish interconnection standards for large load customers and support business development while maintaining system reliability.

NYISO’s Electrical System Planning Working Group/Transmission Planning Advisory Subcommittee discussed updates to several ongoing projects.

ISO-NE published initial data on how its proposed capacity market overhaul will affect resource accreditation, providing an indication of how the changes would affect capacity market revenues for different resource types.

The Virginia General Assembly wrapped up its session and Democrats used the power they won in November's elections to push through bills favoring clean energy as the state faces significant load growth from data centers.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reports that 90 of the nation’s 95 operational commercial nuclear reactors met the highest category of performance in the 2025 oversight process.

The push to develop a resource adequacy program serving non-CAISO members of the ISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market appears to be gathering momentum, with backers saying they aim to produce a draft design for the program in April.

The Bonneville Power Administration’s planned departure from the Western Energy Imbalance Market has prompted questions about how the agency will handle the yearlong period before it joins SPP’s Markets+.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed former infrastructure developer Patrick Rhode to the state’s Public Utility Commission, bringing the agency to its full five-person complement.

Future participants in SPP’s RTO expansion into the Western Interconnection have affirmed their support to meet the April 1 go-live deadline with a unanimous vote of support.

Gaming by different stakeholders can present regulators with biased forecasts, which would require special regulatory-staff expertise to uncover, warns energy consultant Kenneth W. Costello.