ISO-NE proposed to reduce its performance payment rate by more than 60% in response to concerns that excessive penalties will have unintended consequences for the capacity market.

PJM has updated its thinking on the design of its reliability backstop procurement to meet rising data center load, gravitating toward a model in which the RTO would determine the amount of capacity to be purchased and act as the administrator and counterparty to the resulting agreements.

A new report argues for an infrastructure fund to entice data center developers to commit to modernizing the grid as they invest in upgrades required by their new demand.

The winter of 2025/26 was the most expensive winter in the history of ISO-NE’s wholesale markets, driven by the lowest average temperatures in 20 years.

Politicians increasingly are interested in wholesale markets, which has meant price caps but also is pushing regulators and the industry to move faster on meeting rising demand affordably and reliably.

Energy officials in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming called on the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative to ensure states with members in the Regional Organization for Western Energy have full access to data and market information, saying failure to do so risks infringing states’ rights and undermining public confidence.

President Donald Trump gathered seven tech leaders at the White House to sign a ratepayer protection pledge holding that they will pay all the costs associated with the boom in construction of data centers.

For the first time in years, California’s grip on Western market design is genuinely at risk, writes Nick Myers of the Arizona Corporation Commission.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced FERC Commissioner David LaCerte’s nomination for a new, full five-year term by a vote of 12-8.