Monitor David Patton said PJM’s filing signals a good time for MISO to again propose replacing pseudo-ties with a firm capacity delivery procedure.

The MISO Board of Directors met and reviewed their quiet winter, aside fromFebruary tornadoes in LA and high congestion charges from a MISO-PJM constraint.

The CAISO real-time market experienced an uptick in volatility during Q4 of 2016, as five-minute prices spiked to well above day-ahead and 15-minute levels.

FERC staff have greenlit PJM’s proposed Tariff revisions to allow increased participation from seasonal resources.

The PJM Board of Managers responded to accusations leveled by up-to-congestion trader XO Energy, defending the grid operator’s practices.

SPP's footprint may be expanding with the potential addition of the Mountain West Transmission Group, which would help the RTO offload excess wind energy.

A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability and Members committees on March 23, 2017.

Former FERC Commissioner Tony Clark said zero-emission credits (ZECs) may be rejected because of their impact on wholesale market prices.

The CAISO Board of Governors approved a measure investing the board with complete oversight authority over the grid operator’s internal Market Monitor.

With a nod from FERC, MISO will apply a more stringent physical withholding rule and remove demand response and energy efficiency from market monitoring in next month’s capacity auction.