ISO-NE energy demand has fallen 3 to 5% since stay-at-home orders began being implemented across New England, the NEPOOL Reliability Committee heard.

SPP’s effort to stand up the Western Energy Imbalance Service market is on budget and on schedule, RTO staff told the Western Markets Executive Committee.

MISO will extend its COVID-19 response measures of holding virtual stakeholder meetings and restricting access to control rooms to at least June 1.

The battle over FERC’s order expanding PJM’s minimum offer price rule moved to federal court as environmental groups, cooperatives and regulators filed petitions.

PJM backed off plans to seek a vote on short-term changes to its 5-minute dispatch and pricing procedures after pushback from the Monitor and stakeholders.

The Market Implementation Committee held discussions on credit requirements and stability-limited generators, and received updates on the ARR/FTR Market Task Force and the nGEM project.

NYISO’s Management Committee saw graphic evidence of how the COVID-19 pandemic response is impacting power demand in New York.

A new initiative will aim to help NYISO improve its monitoring of fuel and energy security across the New York grid, stakeholders heard.

FERC clarified voluntary renewable energy credits and participation in RGGI will not subject capacity resources to PJM’s expanded minimum offer price rule.

FERC rejected ISO-NE’s request to rehear its decision requiring the RTO to revise its energy storage rules to account for a resource’s state of charge in the day-ahead market.