The Texas PUC approved ending a moratorium on retail customers’ cutoffs for nonpayment because of the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of September.

ERCOT CEO Bill Magness told the board that load has begun to return to pre-COVID-19 levels, as evidenced by energy usage in June and July.

PJM energy prices were lower in the first half of 2020 than any first six-month period since the creation of the RTO’s markets in 1999.

The pandemic is having little impact on BPA's financial health, with FY 2020 net income projected to exceed a worst-case scenario.

With no end in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic, NERC said it will extend the expansion to its self-logging program and defer on-site activities.

The PJM Operating Committee endorsed changes to Manual 1 to expand the use of synchrophasors and make them a requirement for certain projects under the RTEP.

PJM's Planning Committee endorsed the use of a 13-year load model with data from 2002-2014 for the 2020 reserve requirement study.

MISO said it will begin hunting for solutions to mitigate the gap between LMRs that clear capacity auctions and what actually happens in emergencies.

Eversource Energy reported how well it is managing the pandemic just as state regulators suspended a July 1 rate increase set to boost its bottom line.

Wind energy will likely become SPP’s No. 1 fuel source this year, RTO officials say.