Manitoba Hydro will reimburse MISO for providing extra contingency reserves during May, when maintenance outages are expected to reduce transfer capability.

SPP stakeholders approved a 12% planning reserve margin, a new demand curve and 10 revision requests at the Markets and Operations Policy Committee meeting.

ERCOT’s electricity demand continues to grow more rapidly than expected, but the Texas ISO says it still has sufficient capacity to support reliability.

At last week's PJM Operating Committee, PJM and NYISO released last week their joint whitepaper on replacing the Con Ed-PSEG wheel, which will end May 1.

Wind energy is quickly becoming a dominant force in ERCOT’s resource mix, and the grid operator is making changes to address it.

Texas, which ranks 10th in installed solar capacity among the states boasts two assets that could see it rise in the rankings.

The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee refused to take action on AEP and OG&E’s revision request to remove the day-ahead limited must-offer.

MISO has adequate capacity to meet summer demand, though there’s a good chance the RTO will dip into its load-modifying resources.

The SPP board of directors' approval of the RTO’s first reduction in its planning reserve margin since 1998 almost left members wanting more.

SPP members voted last week to reduce the RTO’s planning reserve margin to 12% from the current 13.6%.