Despite recent transparency improvements, broader efforts are needed to address underlying concerns about a lack of regulatory oversight of local transmission costs in New England, a panel of transmission experts said.

ISO-NE’s first interconnection cluster study held under new Order 2023 rules is made up mostly of large battery resources and contains only five wind and solar projects.

The Colorado PUC issued a split decision approving Public Service Company of Colorado’s application to join SPP’s Markets+, finding that market participation is in the public interest and will “provide a number of benefits.”

A wide variety of stakeholders — including representatives of the DER sector — will serve as advisers to the Pathways Initiative as it enters its next phases.

In New England, rules governing how new resources connect to the regional grid limit full use of the system’s potential. Precious “surplus” capacity can and should be leveraged to interconnect new, low-cost clean energy technologies to deliver more reliable, affordable power, says Alex Lawton.

Energy experts and officials stressed the importance of proactive transmission planning, interconnection reform and increased demand-side flexibility at Raab Associates’ New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the bill that will allow CAISO to transition the governance of its markets to an independent “regional organization,” along with five other bills related to energy and emissions.

ERCOT stakeholders at the Infocast Texas Clean Energy Summit discussed tariff trade wars, supply chain issues, data centers and the latest biennial legislative session in Texas that concluded with Senate Bill 6.

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