State energy officials emphasized the need for increased oversight for transmission investments at Raab Associates’ New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable.

A study of SPP’s future energy and resource needs has found the grid operator will have to rely on thermal generation to maintain grid reliability into midcentury, but it will come at a cost.

While NYISO operated reliably last winter, the season provided “continued examples of limited flexibility on the gas system,” ISO staff told the Operating Committee.

FERC accepted SPP’s proposed tariff revisions to incorporate a mark-to-auction collateral requirement for its transmission congestion rights market but did not terminate a show-cause proceeding.

PJM’s Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed two proposals to revise the RTO’s ELCC formula to add two new generation categories and limit the penalties resources face if their accreditation declines between auctions.

FERC approved Duke Energy's Order 2023 compliance filing, which leaves in place the utility's two-phase cluster study process designed to give interconnection customers more information on costs earlier in the process.

FERC's State of the Markets report showed lower wholesale energy prices but growing demand and higher capacity prices that signal a need to meet the coming load.

The NYISO Business Issues Committee approved, in concept, implementation of the ISO’s new firm fuel election process and requirements as part of its changes to capacity accreditation.