Former ERCOT staffer Carrie Bivens will soon begin her new role as director of the grid operator’s Independent Market Monitor.

SPP stakeholders approved the initial set of protocols that will guide the RTO’s Western Energy Imbalance Service market in the Western Interconnection.

MISO is stepping up efforts to understand how markets will function with the possible participation of heavy concentrations of distributed energy resources.

PJM Board Chair Ake Almgren opened the MRC meeting by introducing a redesigned compliance hotline for personnel and stakeholders to report violations.

The Members Committee approved changes to PJM’s fuel-cost policy rules, but not before another round of animated debate over force majeure events.

FERC approved MISO’s proposal to bar participants from its market when it identifies evidence of default, manipulation or unreasonable risk.

ISO-NE’s Energy Security Improvements initiative hit a snag when the NEPOOL Markets Committee failed to recommend it to the Participants Committee.

MISO Board of Directors Chair Phyllis Currie reflected on the unprecedented circumstances that converted the RTO’s Board Week into a teleconference format.

The pandemic was such an unprecedented shock to the system that PJM is trying to stop its near-term load forecasting algorithm from using it in modeling.

The tamest winter in recent memory brought no emergencies for MISO, though the RTO’s South region was the subject of three weather-related alerts.