The competition for organized markets in the West grew Friday as the Bonneville Power Administration launched a process to choose between day-ahead markets proposed by CAISO and SPP and regulators from five Western states urged the establishment of a new, independent RTO covering the entire West.

Panelists at the CREPC-WIRAB spring meeting argued over whether the West would benefit more from a day-ahead market run by CAISO or with another run by SPP.

CAISO’s Market Surveillance Committee has endorsed a set of rule changes designed to avoid shortfalls this summer.

Texas regulators denied complaints by ERCOT market participants and rejected an administrative law judge’s decision on the ISO’s price-correction practices.

The Texas PUC revisited ERCOT market repricing issues, named COO Thomas Gleeson executive director and doled out $307,500 in administrative penalties.

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee met virtually to discuss private-use networks, day-ahead market delays and NPRRs.

PJM's Operating Committee endorsed manual changes and reviewed a revised day-ahead scheduling reserve requirement.

Uneconomic self-commitments of coal resources in MISO’s footprint are not occurring at the clip that critics imagine, the RTO’s Monitor said.

MISO’s market platform replacement is $20M over budget as staff navigate the intricacies of replacing a decades-old system and pandemic-related issues.

FERC rejected ISO-NE’s request to rehear its decision requiring the RTO to revise its energy storage rules to account for a resource’s state of charge in the day-ahead market.