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ISO New England Inc. is a regional transmission organization that oversees the operation of the electricity transmission system, coordinates wholesale electricity markets, and manages power system planning for the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and most of Maine.
Consistently cold weather drove record-high December energy market costs for ISO-NE and caused the region to rely heavily on stored oil and LNG injections.
After a multiyear delay caused by intense political opposition, the New England Clean Energy Connect project is finally ready to begin commercial operations, Avangrid wrote in a filing.
Vistra is paying $4 billion to acquire a fleet of natural gas plants in PJM, ISO-NE and ERCOT.
Heading into 2026, New England is counting on an increasingly collaborative approach to energy policy as federal opposition to renewable energy development threatens affordability, reliability, and decarbonization objectives in the region.
The Maine Public Utilities Commission, in collaboration with the regulators of four other New England states, issued a request for proposals to procure clean energy in northern Maine and 1,200 MW of transmission to connect it to the ISO-NE grid.
The Maine Office of the Public Advocate has asked FERC to initiate evidentiary hearing procedures to answer questions about the prudency of investments by New England transmission owners in asset condition projects placed in service in 2022.
ISO-NE presented the final stakeholder-requested sensitivities for its 2024 Economic Study, discussing the potential effects of adding 3.9 GW of hydropower to the Hydro-Québec system.
A new report estimates that solar and battery storage growth in New England between 2025 and 2030 could reduce wholesale energy costs across the region by about $684 million annually by 2030.
ISO-NE’s new day-ahead ancillary services market added about $258 million in incremental costs between March and August, equal to 7.6% of total energy market costs.
ISO-NE continued work on the second phase of its Capacity Auction Reform project, discussing modeling of the region’s gas constraints, seasonal auction design and its approach to evaluating the impacts of the auction changes.
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