CAISO will have its work cut out in 2020, with a dozen major policy initiatives moving forward as well as heading off predicted electricity shortfalls.

The New England Power Pool Markets Committee continued its crammed schedule to complete ISO-NE's Energy Security Improvements proposal.

Energy storage systems will inevitably take hold in MISO as costs decline, but the outlook for technologies outside lithium-ion batteries is less certain.

Storage industry and assorted regulators, financiers, and utility and RTO representatives gathered for the GreenTech Media Energy Storage Summit 2019.

ERCOT told the Technical Advisory Committee it will be improving market pricing processes as they bring price-correction issues to the Board of Directors.

FERC found that CAISO, ISO-NE and MISO had largely complied with Order 841, but it ordered changes to some of the grid operators’ proposed tariff revisions.

MISO’s system can operate on 50% renewable generation if the RTO greenlights dramatically more transmission and its members embrace new technologies.

FERC accepted an agreement between CAISO and a Calpine plant to provide black start service, but agreed that more cost information was needed.

Representatives from utilities, RTOs and technology vendors gathered at FERC headquarters for a workshop to discuss the role of grid-enhancing technologies.

ERCOT's attempt to alert stakeholders that scheduling entities will be required to submit certificates for electricity resale resulted in a kerfuffle.