On-peak day-ahead electricity prices in the U.S. were down 27 to 35% in 2015 due to cheap natural gas, FERC staff said in its State of the Markets report.

FERC won’t be revisiting the demand response compensation rules under Order 745, commissioners said at the NARUC winter meetings.

The MISO board’s Markets Committee met at Potomac Economics headquarters in Fairfax, Va., to review the Market Monitor’s quarterly metrics report and its monitoring procedures.

PJM stakeholders will continue to debate changing the $1,000/MWh energy offer cap at a special four-hour Markets and Reliability Committee meeting called for Sept. 9.

A summary of measures approved by the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee on Aug. 27, 2015.

A summary of issues the MISO Markets Committee of the Board of Directors discussed at the MISO Informational Forum last week.

PJM energy market prices were down almost 40% in the first half of 2015 compared with 2014, while capacity and transmission service charges rose.

PJM stakeholders last week launched another bid to change the $1,000/MWh energy offer cap.

New York regulators began to sketch out the details of their ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative.

FERC said it expects sufficient resources to meet peak electric demand this summer despite coal-fired retirements, while NERC approved its summer reliability assessment.