The ERCOT Board of Directors unanimously approved a $246.7 million transmission project to address growing energy needs along the Texas Gulf Coast.

MISO is moving ahead with developing an automatic generation control (AGC) program designed to rapidly deploy 400 MW of fast-ramping resources.

A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee on Dec. 21, 2017.

FERC set hearing and settlement proceedings for the 747-MW combined cycle Carroll County Energy plant in Ohio, questioning its revenue requirements.

CAISO’s Board of Governors approved new generator contingency modeling, rules extending time for generator interconnections and EIM enhancements.

MISO said it will defer any initiative to account for outages in capacity planning until it kicks off a broader discussion on overall resource availability.

MISO’s market planners outlined a potential 30-minute reserve product to reduce uplift and multiday generator commitments to cut production costs.

NERC released its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment, urging preservation of “essential reliability services.”

NYISO year-to-date monthly energy prices averaged $34.72/MWh in November, a 5% increase from a year earlier.

CAISO is floating a proposal that would extend many of the features of its day-ahead market into the footprint of the EIM.