PJM, Voltus and the RTO’s Independent Market Monitor presented proposals to establish penalties for demand response and price-responsive demand resources that fail to perform during a pre-emergency load management event.

MISO membership called for modernized market rules for energy storage that can capture its chameleon-like roles.

IESO is reconsidering how it deploys hourly demand response following complaints over partial activations and an increase in standby notices.

IESO downgraded less than 100 MW of capacity for November’s auction in the first application of its Performance Adjustment Factor in both the winter and summer seasons.

NYISO staff presented more of their initial ideas for improving the Demand Curve Reset process, centered on alternative shapes, slopes and points of the curve.

Maryland's 2026 legislative session could show how states facing explosive demand growth can achieve their clean energy and affordability goals despite the Trump administration’s resistance to solar, wind and storage, according to Livewire columnist K Kaufmann.

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 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.

FERC partially granted a complaint by the New England Power Generators Association about the design of ISO-NE's Pay-for-Performance mechanism.