With its electricity demand projected to grow 3%-4% annually and off-peak prices as high as $65/MWh, the Mexico energy market presents an appealing target to generation developers.

The ERCOT Board of Directors is looking to stakeholders to improve its reliability-must-run (RMR) practices, as the grid operator sees real-time prices fall 26% in the first half of 2016.

The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) nears the launch of the new gas-day timeline and enhanced combined cycle software as stakeholders approve a minimum threshold for competitive projects under Order 1000.

The PJM Planning Committee and Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee (TEAC) considered the loss of the Quad Cities nuclear plant and discussed Order 1000 rules, $1.1 billion in end-of-life projects for PSE&G and the third RTEP window of the year.

This week's FERC and federal briefs include news on NRC, New Mexico, EPA, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, DOE and other organizations.

Concerned about the impact of nuclear plant retirements in the state, Michigan officials have asked MISO to conduct a reliability analysis that assumes simultaneous outages at the Palisades and Fermi 2 nuclear plants. 

The MISO Reliability Subcommittee discussed improving frequency response, pseudo-tie congestion management, and its 2016/17 winter Coordinated Seasonal Assessment.

MISO filed revised Tariff language allowing it to recover costs for multi-value transmission projects that benefit PJM customers by charging a fee on exports to PJM.

PJM’s Operating Committee reviewed tightened metering requirements and approved sunsetting the Systems Information Committee, reassigning its responsibilities to the Data Management Subcommittee and the new Tech Change Forum.

This week's company briefs include news on EFH, Kemper, Black Hills Energy, Chesapeake, Duke Energy, SolarCity, Exelon and others.