RTO officials acknowledged their challenges but asked Congress not to depart from 20 years of supporting wholesale markets.

NYISO reported that locational-based marginal prices for June averaged $31.76/MWh, nearly unchanged from May.

Environmentalists last week urged FERC to decide whether states can control participation of energy efficiency resources in RTOs.

SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee meeting in Denver drew record attendance because of the appearance of Mountain West Transmission Group.

The MISO IMM gave board members an explanation of the most pressing of the nine new recommendations contained in this year’s State of the Market report.

PJM presented the Market Implementation Committee with revisions to the RTO’s proposal for handling intraday hourly offers in the energy market.

MISO is considering the possibility of factoring transmission constraints into its reserve requirement modeling to help prevent scarcity pricing.

Energy transfer capacity in the EIM footprint is now sufficient to justify removing bid limits that are in effect for some members, the CAISO Monitor says.

A federal judge dismissed challenges to Illinois’ zero-emission credit program, saying the plaintiffs lacked standing.

EIM participants are generally supportive of CAISO's plan to account for greenhouse gas emissions of external resources but requested more info.