NYISO
NYISO presented its final locational minimum installed capacity requirements for the 2025/26 capability year during the Installed Capacity Working Group’s first meeting of 2025.
News briefs on FERC and the federal agencies that impact RTOs.
News briefs on companies and firms doing business with RTOs.
News briefs from the states within the footprint of RTOs.
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The rising opposition to the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, a 67-mile, 500-kV transmission line, and general dissatisfaction with PJM and utility grid planning and interconnection policies, are driving new bills in the General Assembly.
Clean Path New York
The New York Power Authority has filed a petition with the Public Service Commission asking it to designate Clean Path NY as a Priority Transmission Project under the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act.
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PJM heads into 2025 with several proposals before FERC seeking to rework its capacity market and generator interconnection queue, while stakeholders work on an expedited Quadrennial Review of the market and changes to resource accreditation.
ERCOT
The Texas grid operator raised eyebrows in April when it said its load-growth forecasts had ballooned by 40 GW over the previous year. It said it anticipates about 152 GW of new load by 2030.
Massachusetts Interagency Rates Working Group
The adoption of simple near-term rate reforms could help Massachusetts achieve its electrification goals while minimizing effects on ratepayers, an interagency working group concluded.
The Bonneville Power Administration
BPA remains on track to issue a decision on which day-ahead market to join by May 2025 despite calls to delay it until fall 2025 to give the agency more time to reconsider its leaning toward SPP’s Markets+.