FERC approved filings by two Massachusetts utilities establishing distribution fees for standalone electric energy storage systems that connect to the distribution system but participate in ISO-NE wholesale markets.

ERCOT stakeholders have endorsed several protocol changes related to the ISO’s real-time co-optimization project, keeping on track a project seen as a cornerstone for future market improvements.

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative’s Launch Committee said it hopes to seat a permanent board by either next year or 2027 for the regional organization that will govern energy markets in the West.

NYISO stakeholders heard about the tension between public policy pushes for zero-emission generation, the aging grid, increasing customer costs and concerns about winter peaking.

Speakers at the ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group discussed the costs and emissions benefits of energy efficiency and demand flexibility, and called on policymakers to double down on efficiency programs as energy demand grows.

Pacific Gas and Electric will meet some of this year’s summer electricity demand in California through a virtual power plant demonstration project that will include as many as 1,900 residential customers.

The current debate in the U.S. electricity sector pitting efforts to increase renewables against the need for grid reliability in the face of growing demand could be unnecessary and counterproductive, according to one expert.

DHS meteorologist Sunny Wescott warned that utilities will need to be prepared for global climate change to bring a range of issues they may have never considered before.

CAISO's Department of Market Monitoring found lower natural gas prices helped drive down energy prices in the WEIM in the fourth quarter of 2024.