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April 15, 2026

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Yes Energy
PJM Exceeds Forecast Summer Peak Load During June Heat Wave
PJM experienced a preliminary peak load over 160 GW during the recent heat wave, surpassing the RTO’s summer forecast of 154 GW and requiring the deployment of pre-emergency demand response.
ERCOT
Vegas: ERCOT Grid ‘Strong’ Heading into Summer
ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas declared the state of the Texas grid to be "strong" as it heads into a summer where it expects a record peak demand.
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PJM Proposes Changes to Large Load Forecasting

PJM presented changes to its submission and review processes for large load adjustments that are intended to provide stakeholders with more transparency before they are included in future load forecasts, as well as a draft proposal to standardize how it determines what share of LLAs will be included in its forecasts.

PJM
PJM Operating Committee Briefs: June 3, 2025
The month of May saw one spin event to PJM, a shared reserve event, three high-system-voltage actions and 24 post-contingency local load relief warnings, according to the RTO’s monthly operating metrics.
Admin Monitor
ERCOT: Agreement Reached to Use Mobile Generators

ERCOT has told Texas regulators that it has reached an agreement with LifeCycle Power that clears the way for 15 mobile generators to be relocated from Houston to San Antonio to provide additional capacity.

SERC
SERC Says Most Subregions Prepared for Summer Heat

SERC said all subregions should have enough resources to handle normal summer conditions, but the Central subregion may see energy shortfalls during periods of extreme heat.

Forward Market Design LLC
FERC Resource Adequacy Conference Comes with Markets at a Crossroads

FERC will hold a two-day technical conference June 4-5, where it will look at resource adequacy issues in the ISO/RTO markets, with most of the focus on those with capacity markets.

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Panel Discusses Data Center Load Growth at PJM Annual Meeting
Experts in the data center field discussed the challenges of meeting accelerating computational load during the PJM Annual Meeting, held in the core of Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley. 
PJM
PJM OC Briefs: May 8, 2025
The preliminary results of PJM’s look ahead at the capacity available for this summer and the expected peak loads suggest that about 5.4 GW of demand response could be needed to maintain the 3.5-GW real-time primary reserve requirement.
IESO
IESO Tweaks Modeling for Outage Management

IESO is changing how it projects renewable generation output and its accounting for imports and planned loads in the forecasts it uses to manage generator and transmission outages.


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