After a one-month delay, the PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed two packages to update the RTO’s opportunity cost calculator.

NYISO congestion costs surged in the second quarter despite lower electricity prices, gas price spreads and load levels, the Market Monitoring Unit said.

BPA dispelled lingering doubts about its intent to join the Western EIM, but will take time to address stakeholders about how the move will affect them.

Refunds appear imminent in a dispute over MISO and PJM’s past practice of double-charging pseudo-tied generation for congestion fees.

MISO will take another crack at identifying a project that could provide an alternative to the constrained transmission path linking its North and South regions.

FERC approved Tariff revisions intended to relieve costs for MISO resources pseudo-tying into PJM despite criticism that they didn't go far enough.

FERC approved CAISO Tariff changes designed to incorporate generator contingencies and remedial action schemes into its market optimization and congestion pricing methodology.

The Department of Energy convened to gather information for the department’s 2019 electric transmission congestion study.

CAISO’s congestion revenue rights market showed unusual surpluses this summer because of higher congestion rents on Path 26.

The MISO market was competitive in 2017, but the RTO should do more to address increasing congestion and low capacity prices, Monitor David Patton said.