PJM stakeholders unanimously endorsed proposed changes to the 2021 day-ahead scheduling reserve requirement and winter weekly reserve target.

The Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed revisions to PJM’s rules for liquidating defaulted financial transmission rights positions.

MISO should have adequate capacity to navigate winter but could still face abnormal weather-related outages or a load-shedding event.

MISO staff continue to keep advisories in effect and compile data on the emergency and subsequent rolling blackouts caused by Hurricane Laura.

Patrick McGarry discusses how COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders have provided insight into a potentially permanent change in electricity demand.

The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession will significantly reduce electricity demand in California through 2023.

Economy-wide carbon dioxide emissions in New England fell by 28 to 34% between March and June versus a year earlier.

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.