As NYISO continues its Capacity Market Structure Review, the Market Monitoring Unit used its second-quarter State of the Market report to highlight potential issues with how the ISO forecasts resource availability.

The second leg of the Independent Market Monitor's analysis on PJM's 2025/26 Base Residual Auction looked at the impact of not counting reliability-must-run resources as capacity, paired with several other factors.

NYISO presented its final interim staff recommendations for the demand curve reset for 2025-2029 at the Installed Capacity Working Group’s meeting, with minor updates to some metrics.

SPP’s effort to impose capacity accreditation methodologies for thermal and renewable resources has drawn protests from public-interest and clean-energy groups at FERC.

NYISO will stop sequestering the operations teams at one of its two control centers even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to reduce demand.

NYISO said several of its market design projects are behind schedule, leading some to question whether it has taken on more initiatives than it can handle.

Members approved a Tariff revision setting 78.5% as the balancing ratio to be used in calculating the default market seller offer cap for the 2021/22 BRA.

PJM has reduced its installed reserve margin, largely because of a drop in the equivalent forced outage rate.

General assumptions regarding winter operations will need to be replaced with actual data to improve PJM’s winter resource adequacy analysis.