Two environmental groups that say regulated utilities’ practice of self-committing coal plants is costing ratepayers have a point, RTO officials said.

Record low energy prices persisted for the first nine months of the year in PJM, the Independent Market Monitor said in its State of the Market report.

State and federal regulators joined industry leaders at the New England-Canada Business Council’s (NECBC) 27th annual energy conference in Boston.

ERCOT told the Technical Advisory Committee it will be improving market pricing processes as they bring price-correction issues to the Board of Directors.

NYISO’s Management Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the Board of Directors approve Tariff changes to speed up the interconnection process.

The NEPOOL Reliability Committee voted to recommend or approve several transmission projects, generation facilities and ISO-NE governing document revisions.

MISO’s Monitor found no major concerns with performance in MISO South, but wants the RTO to better handle short-notice and unreported generation outages.

U.S. senators from New England urged ISO-NE to more closely align its fuel security initiative with states seeking to speed the transition to renewables.

Regulators granted a request by staff and Texas Industrial Energy Consumers for a list of investors behind the $4.3 billion acquisition of El Paso Electric.

The PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed Manual 18 revisions that implement the new must-offer exception process approved by FERC last month.