Capacity Market

Analysis Group
ISO-NE Introduces Approach to Modeling Gas Constraints
ISO-NE outlined its planned approach for accounting for resources’ gas supply limitations in its new capacity accreditation framework at a NEPOOL Markets Committee meeting.
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MISO Re-examining Monthlong Outage Limit for Capacity Resources
MISO signaled an openness to alter its 31-day planned outage rule for units that signed up to be capacity resources.
ISO-NE
NEPOOL Committees Support ISO-NE Prompt Capacity Auctions
NEPOOL technical committees voted in favor of ISO-NE’s proposal to adopt a prompt capacity auction and update the RTO’s resource retirement process.
Ontario Power Generation
IESO Board OKs Rule Changes Ahead of Capacity Auction
IESO will implement new rules for breaking ties and reducing unfulfilled commitments in its capacity market ahead of its next auction Nov. 26-27.
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PJM Stakeholders Endorse Rules for DER Participation
The PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed manual revisions that define how distributed energy resources will participate in the 2028/29 capacity auction.
PJM
PJM Winter Outlook Finds Tightening Reserve Margins
PJM’s winter outlook found the RTO should have enough resources to meet the forecast peak load of 145,700 MW, although the reserve margin continues to decline as new resource development lags.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Duke Paper Lays out How FERC Can Make Flexibility for Large Loads Reality
FERC can make large load flexibility a reality through the implementation of the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on large load interconnections, according to a new Nicholas Institute policy paper.
GridLab
GridLab: More Renewables Could Have Saved Billions in PJM Auction

If just 10% of the land-based renewables in PJM’s generator interconnection queue had been developed, the total cost of the RTO’s 2026/27 capacity auction would have been reduced by $3.5 billion, according to an analysis GridLab commissioned by Aurora Energy Research.

CPower
CPower’s 2025 VPP Dispatches Already More Than Double 2024 Levels
CPower saw its customers dispatched for a total of 38 GWh through the third quarter, beating all of last year's total dispatches of 16 GWh handily.
MISO
MISO Predicts 103-GW Peak for Winter
MISO said even a 109-GW peak this winter shouldn’t prove problematic, though a more probable scenario would deliver a 103-GW peak in January.

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