Markets

ISO-NE
Costs of ISO-NE Day-ahead Ancillary Services Higher than Expected
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.
Google
ANOPR Reply Comments Offer Differing Paths for FERC Action on Large Loads
Reply comments to the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to FERC on large loads offered differing paths for the commission to potentially take.
Analysis Group
ISO-NE Talks CAR Gas Constraints, Seasonal Risk Split, Impact Analysis
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.
Quanta Infrastructure Solutions Group
CAISO, SPP Explore Using Existing Tools to Manage DAM Seams
CAISO and SPP have made “significant progress” on adapting existing tools to tackle seams between the two entities’ respective day-ahead markets, according to a CAISO representative.
Stantec
Louisiana Gen Co. First to Lodge Complaint Over MISO Auction Error and Price Corrections
Louisiana-based power generator Pelican Power is the first to register a complaint over MISO’s yearslong miscalculation in its capacity auctions in an effort to stop the RTO’s retroactive pricing corrections.
PJM
PJM Operating Committee Briefs: Dec. 4, 2025
PJM’s forecasting of hourly peak loads continued to improve in November, with an error rate of just 1.17%, staff told the RTO’s Operating Committee.
© RTO Insider 
PJM MIC Tackles Issue Charges, Problem Statements
Among other issues, PJM presented a quick fix proposal to address instances in which offline generators are committed as secondary reserves and granted lost opportunity cost credits.
Power Advisory
Big Jump in Ontario Capacity Prices Signals Tightening Supplies
IESO says record-high clearing prices in its capacity auction will have little impact on ratepayers because the ISO's medium- and long-term procurements play a larger role in the region’s resource adequacy.
© RTO Insider
Raab Associates’ Restructuring Roundtable Looks Back on 30 Years
Raab Associates held its final New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable, bringing reflections from speakers about the legacy of restructuring and the future of the power sector in the region.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
BPA Outlines Next Steps in Markets+ Implementation
As the Bonneville Power Administration prepares to join Markets+, the agency hopes to complete the initial program governance setup and define its commercial model for market participation in early 2026.

Want more? Advanced Search