ISO-NE released its annual report, highlighting the challenges related to plant retirements, inadequate gas infrastructure and initiatives in transmission planning, renewables and distributed resource integration.

PJM stakeholders representing supply and load accused each other of refusing to compromise on changes to the $1,000 offer cap Thursday in one of the most acrimonious debates in the last year.

FERC said PJM should not have included a 10% adder in its calculation of make-whole payments to generators whose costs exceeded the offer cap last winter.

State officials and generation owners promised last week to challenge the assumptions the EPA used in its proposed carbon rule.

The EPA’s proposed regulations on carbon emissions would increase electric bills and harm reliability, Virginia SCC staff members said.

The reliability cracks that became apparent last winter are more than a function of the polar vortex. They exposed long-term challenges that will take years to address.

PJM members agreed last week to consider cutting compensation for Tier 1 synchronized reserves, but PJM officials are likely to oppose a change.

Generators that planned to retire coal-fired units ahead of the EPA's MATS extension deadline say they may accelerate retirements to avoid MISO penalties.

ISO-NE "will be in a precarious operating position for the next several winters due to the natural gas pipeline constraints," spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg said.