ERCOT can ensure long-term reliability with its energy-only market, but it must operate its grid less conservatively for that to happen, said Potomac Economics President David Patton.

William & Mary Law School announced it has appointed former FERC Chair Mark Christie as the 2025 Lowance Fellow, a visiting professor of the practice of law and the founding director of the school’s new Center for Energy Law & Policy.

MISO’s Board of Directors has asked the RTO’s Independent Market Monitor to better explain its $10.6 million 2026 budget before it agrees to the amount.

MISO said 2025 was the most demanding summer since 2012, though it steered the grid with only a single maximum generation event.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor said the recently uncovered, eight-year-old repeat error in the RTO’s capacity market that caused a $280 million impact in this year’s auction alone is unfortunate but insisted the resulting prices were efficient.

MISO and several stakeholders came to the defense of the RTO’s $21.8 billion, 24-project long-range transmission plan portfolio for the Midwest as five Republican states seek to repeal the projects’ approval.

FERC sided with MISO IMM David Patton, denying a petition from MISO that would have prevented the RTO from reimbursing the Monitor for reviewing the market impact of transmission planning.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor has expressed lingering dissatisfaction with NERC’s Long-Term Reliability Assessment, even with potentially corrected values.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor has released four new market improvement recommendations concerning transmission congestion, the Midwest-South transmission link, market-to-market coordination and price settlements after grid devastation.