Former SPP COO Carl Monroe's decades of outreach to Western Interconnection entities are evident in the RTO's various markets and service offerings in the West.

A developer in Maine is evaluating whether pumped storage – one of the oldest generation technologies still used on the New England grid – could play an increased role in the grid of the future.

MISO’s generator interconnection queue has fallen to 215 GW as developers cut back on projects in response to the federal phaseout of renewable energy tax incentives, RTO leadership said.

MISO will start evaluating its South region for long-term transmission needs in 2026, beginning with Louisiana, the RTO announced before its Board of Directors.

PJM revised elements of its proposal to create a non-capacity backed load product for large loads as the Critical Issue Fast Path embarks on determining how to address the reliability challenges posed by accelerating data center load growth.

With California passing the bill designed to transition the governance of CAISO’s markets to an independent regional organization, new challenges await the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative as the coalition seeks to turn a once-elusive goal into reality.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor said the recently uncovered, eight-year-old repeat error in the RTO’s capacity market that caused a $280 million impact in this year’s auction alone is unfortunate but insisted the resulting prices were efficient.

Ongoing cases working their way through the courts have raised questions about the future of FERC's independence.

Heat affects the full length of the electric supply chain: from generation, through the grid, to utilities’ customers, says columnist Dej Knuckey.