A trade group representing multiple MISO power producers has lodged a complaint against retroactive pricing revisions in MISO’s 2025/26 capacity auction, joining Pelican Power in calling the repricing unlawful.

MISO ended its 10-year run allowing energy efficiency in its capacity market, as FERC allowed the change to take effect.

Texas regulators have approved two more applications under the Texas Energy Fund’s completion-bonus program, making the generation resources eligible for more than $100 million in grants.

The Western Transmission Expansion Coalition plans to publish its 10-year outlook for Western transmission needs in February 2026 and has begun outlining the 20-year plan, according to Energy Strategies, which is developing the report.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors has approved staff’s proposed 765-kV Eastern Backbone project and its $9.4 billion capital cost price tag, making it the most expensive project in the grid operator’s history.

A new report estimates that solar and battery storage growth in New England between 2025 and 2030 could reduce wholesale energy costs across the region by about $684 million annually by 2030.

MISO and its Monitor tracked a rise in energy consumption in fall 2025 and reviewed some operational rough patches, while the RTO explained why its machine-learning risk predictor remains a work in progress.

MISO members don’t doubt that large loads will turn up at the beginning of the next decade and are occupied with how the industry can make sure ratepayers don’t subsidize supersized customers.

Attendees at the gridCONNEXT conference, including the acting under secretary of energy and U.S. representatives, debated federal energy policy.

For the first time in PJM history, the market signal for flexible capability such as battery storage is strong, consistent and grounded in clear system need, says Ali Karimian of GridBeyond.