MISO convened a stakeholder workshop to go over new requirements for demand response resources heading into the 2026/27 planning year.

The PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed a package of revisions to Manual 18.

Curtailment service providers Voltus and Mission:data have filed a complaint with FERC seeking changes to PJM's data requirements for demand response.

Stakeholders in the PJM Operating Committee have endorsed manual revisions reflecting the creation of modeling users forum.

PJM has withdrawn its non-capacity backed load proposal, shifting the focus of its solution for rising large load additions to creating a parallel resource interconnection queue and reworking price-responsive demand.

The Colorado PUC issued a split decision approving Public Service Company of Colorado’s application to join SPP’s Markets+, finding that market participation is in the public interest and will “provide a number of benefits.”

The Ontario government’s efforts to align IESO and the Ontario Energy Board to make the province an energy “superpower” was the dominant theme at the 2025 Ontario Energy Conference.

Capacity auction reforms, a new asset condition reviewer role, parallel transmission planning efforts, new reserve products, Pay-for-Performance changes and interconnection modifications are likely to be on the docket for ISO-NE in 2026.