FERC is seeking comment on if, when and how energy storage can participate in the wholesale energy markets, questioning whether RTOs’ rules are creating barriers for the resource

MISO continues to move forward with modifications to its capacity market even as some stakeholders question the need for the proposed auction changes.

FERC has again upheld ISO-NE’s limited exemption for renewables from the RTO’s minimum offer price rule.

PJM asked FERC not to order changes to the RTO’s minimum offer price rule before May’s Base Residual Auction.

The annual MISO capacity auction again produced disparate, roller coaster results, with prices in 3 zones quintupling versus last year and Zone 4 dropping.

The PJM Operating Committee discussed cold weather testing, synchrophasor data and frequency response.

The NYISO Management Committee discussed the record-breaking demand for natural gas last winter, as well as a new method for setting the ISO's demand curve.

ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie last week again defended the RTO’s capacity auctions to congressmen who say market practices have led to inflated electricity rates for New England ratepayers.

A summary of measures approved and issues discussed by the PJM Markets and Reliability and Members committees on March 31, 2016.

A MISO auction proposal to hold a separate forward capacity procurement auction for deregulated areas is meeting with skepticism from some RTO members.