MISO’s weekday loads are looking more like weekends as social distancing measures to lessen COVID-19 cases take hold in more states in the footprint.

SPP‘s Western Energy Imbalance Service executive committee stood up the working group responsible for developing and maintaining the market’s protocols.

The NYISO Business Issues Committee approved Tariff changes on energy storage and load forecast revisions to account for behind-the-meter net generation.

The average load-weighted, real-time LMP in PJM was $27.32/MWh last year, a 28.6% decrease from 2018 and the lowest in the RTO’s 21-year history.

Four Colorado utilities decided to join CAISO’s Energy Imbalance Market instead of SPP’s Western Energy Imbalance Service because of the economic benefits.

PJM is “confident” it will meet FERC’s deadline for resolving pricing and dispatch misalignment issues in its fast-start pricing proposal.

ISO-NE is wrapping up its Energy Security Improvements initiative ahead of a FERC deadline, stakeholders learned during a NEPOOL Markets Committee meeting.

MISO’s proposal to bring solar resources under its umbrella of dispatchable intermittent resources prompted a deficiency letter from FERC.

ISO-NE and NEPOOL stakeholders are collaborating to study market and reliability issues the region will face as it decarbonizes over the next decades.

MISO predicts energy usage this spring will peak at 100 GW in May, with about 134 GW of total capacity available.