ERCOT stakeholders, while raising concerns over the grid operator’s use of conservative operations, have endorsed staff’s recommendations for computing minimum ancillary service quantities for 2026.

SPP’s Market Monitoring Unit says in its latest report that the Western Energy Imbalance Service market’s average load energy prices rose “significantly” during the spring quarter of 2025.

FERC approved a follow-up filing for ISO-NE’s compliance with Orders 2023 and 2023-A, authorizing variations from the final rule related to interconnection point modifications, cost allocation, and commercial readiness deposits.

After months of negotiations, the author of the California legislation needed to transform CAISO’s market into an independent regional energy market for the West is confident the state legislature will have a bill to vote on before the session wraps up

ISO-NE said it is open to capping the balancing ratio used to calculate Pay-for-Performance payments to prevent capacity resources from being required to provide more power than their capacity supply obligations.

Two new data sets show the industry has started to cut back on record high interconnection queue levels from last year as reforms have started to take hold.

MISO is poised to close the door on summer with an almost 122-GW peak while issuing several capacity advisories for MISO South.