The PJM MRC was largely unconvinced when financial traders wanted to defer a vote on a set of rule changes on virtual transactions.

The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee discussed the logistics of adding Mountain West Transmission Group and MMU recommendations.

The PJM Board of Managers responded to accusations leveled by up-to-congestion trader XO Energy, defending the grid operator’s practices.

UTC Trader XO Energy accused PJM of unfairly discounting the interests of up-to-congestion traders in recent uplift rule changes.

FERC rejected the PJM proposal for revising how it implements its FTR forfeiture rule, ordering the RTO to instead adopt an approach suggested by the IMM.

SPP set a new record for wind power generation Friday when the footprint cracked the 12,000-MW threshold for the first time while coal generation declined.

Market manipulation cases dominated FERC enforcement efforts in fiscal 2016, according to the Office of Enforcement’s 10th annual report.

The PJM Market Monitor reported that capacity and regulation market results were “generally competitive” in the first 9 months of 2016, but remain vulnerable to stress.

PJM Market Monitor Joe Bowring and others debated the role and value of the RTO's financial transmission rights market at OPSI's annual meeting last week.

FERC rejected proposed SPP Tariff revisions, saying they would unfairly favor network transmission customers over point-to-point customers in how the RTO awards congestion rights.