ISO-NE energy demand has fallen 3 to 5% since stay-at-home orders began being implemented across New England, the NEPOOL Reliability Committee heard.

ISO-NE’s wholesale market costs last fall declined 38% year over year to $1.5 billion, with both energy and capacity market costs decreasing significantly.

ISO-NE’s Energy Security Improvements initiative hit a snag when the NEPOOL Markets Committee failed to recommend it to the Participants Committee.

At the NEPOOL Reliability Committee, stakeholders pushed back on ISO-NE’s draft assumptions on improving system fuel security.

FERC rejected ISO-NE Tariff revisions to clarify that resources retained for fuel security reasons will not be retained for other reasons once the fuel security retention period ends.

ISO-NE and NEPOOL stakeholders are collaborating to study market and reliability issues the region will face as it decarbonizes over the next decades.

Dominion Energy is replacing the Unit 3 generator and feedwater measurement equipment at the Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut.

ISO-NE intends to design a forward ancillary services market to complement the day-ahead one proposed under its ESI initiative.

FERC rejected ISO-NE and NEPOOL's request to roll back the sunset date for a provision that allows the RTO to retain a resource for fuel security reasons.

ISO-NE told the NEPOOL Participants Committee that January saw record high temperatures averaging 7.8 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.