ISO-NE said it is open to capping the balancing ratio used to calculate Pay-for-Performance payments to prevent capacity resources from being required to provide more power than their capacity supply obligations.

Battery storage remains largely reliant on state programs and subsidies to be viable in Massachusetts but could increasingly stand on its own as renewable energy proliferates, a panel of energy storage experts said.

ISO-NE’s 16th Forward Capacity Auction will likely have similar outcomes to last year’s, observers say, even as debate swirls around the market’s future.

Federal regulators again pushed for ISO-NE to get rid of its Minimum Offer Price Rule.

Climate activists mobilized in front of the Massachusetts State House to protest fossil-fuel infrastructure development in environmental justice communities.