MISO revealed it will crack down on demand response testing requirements ahead of its spring capacity auction, while some stakeholders argued the stepped-up measures amount to a change that requires FERC approval.

FERC approved price formation reforms for SPP and set questions around resource accreditation for additional proceedings in a pair of orders issued at its regular monthly meeting.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro urged PJM Chair Mark Takahashi to “intervene with” RTO leadership to revise the design of the capacity market before conducting the 2026/27 BRA to avoid an “unacceptable” increase in capacity market prices.

The California Energy Commission will hold a workshop to discuss the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative, signaling the state may consider a proposal to alter CAISO’s governance structure to accommodate broader concerns about the ISO’s lack of independence from politics.

PJM’s Andrew Gledhill presented a proposal to the Planning Committee to revise the installed reserve margin and forecast pool requirement for the third 2025/26 Incremental Auction.

PJM presented stakeholders with proposed manual revisions to implement a requirement that dual-fuel generators must offer schedules with both of their fuels into the energy market during the winter, as well as changes to the operational and seasonal testing for capacity resources.

PJM and its Monitor presented a joint proposal to rework the balancing operating reserve  credit structure to address a scenario they say results in generators receiving uplift payments despite not following dispatch orders.

Establishing a fast-start pricing mechanism in CAISO and the WEIM is complex and brings few benefits compared to other potential market enhancements, the ISO's Department of Market Monitoring said.

The Organization of MISO States advised MISO that it needs a central data-sharing platform for the participation of DER aggregators in its wholesale market.