Speakers at a PJM Public Interest and Environmental Organizations User Group meeting said the growth of local transmission projects is a major contributor to grid upgrades making up an increasing share of rates.

The Texas Public Utility Commission's staff has recommended not moving forward with the proposed performance credit mechanism market design for ERCOT as it is currently designed.

The NYISO Business Issues Committee tabled a proposal to levy financial penalties against consistently underperforming generators in the reserve market.

FERC approved CAISO’s request to further streamline its generator interconnection process in response to the high volume of requests in its interconnection queue.

CAISO kicked off a new Storage Design and Modeling Initiative intended to tackle an array of challenges related to the growing market participation of storage resources.

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas says the grid operator’s development of a new reliability standard for the market as “one of [our] more significant” accomplishments.

CAISO's Department of Market Monitoring reported that the ISO saw “one of the highest demand peaks” in recent years in 2024.

MISO and SPP staff told stakeholders that they will not perform a Coordinated System Plan in 2025 but will accept transmission issues for their annual review early in the year.

MISO said it will leave the 10-year-old guiding principles for its market design untouched after it conducted a check-in with stakeholders to gauge whether they are still valid in a rapidly changing industry.

To meet the power demand posed by data centers in the Northwest, stakeholders must collaborate to efficiently invest capital and explore controversial solutions like establishing a regional transmission organization in the West, panelists said in a webinar.