The opening of Ontario’s nodal market has been marked by real-time volatility and unusually high operating reserve prices.
Panelists at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners emphasized the need for innovative regulatory frameworks in order to keep up with new technology seeking interconnection.
California is setting records with battery energy storage operating on its grid every day, but in one Southern California beach county, residents have come out in large numbers to oppose a proposed 250-MW battery project because of safety and aesthetic concerns.
New England utility regulators warned that knee-jerk reactions to backlash over high winter costs could create long-term consequences for customers.
FERC’s resource adequacy technical conference zoomed out on the second day, June 5, with several panels examining ISO-NE, MISO and NYISO.
MISO has drafted a joint transmission planning agreement with neighbor Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. that is premised on how they currently coordinate.
ERCOT has told Texas regulators that it has reached an agreement with LifeCycle Power that clears the way for 15 mobile generators to be relocated from Houston to San Antonio to provide additional capacity.
The Organization of MISO States and MISO are confident the footprint will be resource-sufficient in the 2026/27 planning year but said anything from an 11.4-GW surplus to a 14.1-GW deficit could be in store by the 2030/31 planning year.
SPP and Hitachi announced a partnership to produce an integrated AI-based solution they say will reduce study-analysis times by 80% in the GI process to meet escalating demand.
FERC spent June 4-5 looking into resource adequacy across the markets it regulates.
