NERC's Member Representatives Committee heard progress reports from the groups developing updates to its standards development process and strategic plan.

SPP state regulators have approved several motions related to FERC Order 1920’s mandate for long-term, scenario-based planning to ensure the system can meet future needs and be fairly compensated.

The PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed manual revisions that define how distributed energy resources will participate in the 2028/29 capacity auction.

NYISO presented the results of Phase 1 of the 2024 Cluster Study process at a special Operating Committee meeting.

FERC rejected a complaint from the Kentucky PSC against AEP, finding the utility holding company's practice of spreading supplemental projects around its PJM utilities is still just and reasonable.

Duke Energy expects its new five-year capital plan for 2026 to 2030 to be between $95 billion and $105 billion, up from the $87 billion that was planned for 2025 to 2029.

PJM presented its shortlist of projects for inclusion in the first window of its 2025 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.

SPP’s Board of Directors has awarded its eighth competitive project and third in 2025 under FERC Order 1000, a 345-kV upgrade in the Texas Panhandle.

PJM’s winter outlook found the RTO should have enough resources to meet the forecast peak load of 145,700 MW, although the reserve margin continues to decline as new resource development lags.

At one of the most well attended workshops of the year, CAISO staff described new processes for scheduling intertie resources and resource adequacy imports in EDAM.