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Sandia National Laboratories
FERC Approves CAISO Request to Lift Soft Offer Cap for Hydro, Storage
FERC accepted CAISO’s proposal to allow for storage resources to bid above the ISO’s $1,000/MWh soft offer cap in the real-time market to account for their intraday opportunity costs.
PJM
PJM Capacity Prices Spike 10-fold in 2025/26 Auction

PJM capacity prices increased nearly tenfold in the 2025/26 Base Residual Auction as a trifecta of load growth, generation deactivations and changes to risk modeling shrank reserve margins.

CAISO
WEIM Yields $365M in Q2 Benefits with Hot Start to Summer
CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market provided its 22 participants with $365.04 million in economic benefits from April to June down 4% from the same period a year ago.
MISO
MISO in June: Unchanged Pricing, Lower Peak than Expected
June brought a 2-GW lower peak than anticipated and unchanged real-time and fuel prices from last year, MISO said in a monthly operations report.
Shutterstock
ISO-NE Capacity Accreditation Reforms Spur Energy Storage Concerns
As ISO-NE undertakes major capacity market accreditation reforms, New England storage developers are voicing concerns that potential flaws in the RTO’s modeling methodology could discourage new investments in storage resources.
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PJM MRC Briefs: July 24, 2024
The PJM MRC endorsed one of two proposals to revise how the RTO uses reserve resources, approving a deployment scheme where instructions are sent by basepoints, while rejecting a parallel proposal to grant operators the ability to dynamically increase market procurements.
NYISO
NYISO Stakeholders Continue Debate over Battery as Proxy Unit
NYISO analysts continue to recommend a two-hour battery electric storage system resource as the proxy unit for the ISO’s capacity market demand curve.
Entergy
DC Circuit Declines Entergy Challenge of MISO Seasonal Accreditation
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Entergy’s challenge of MISO’s seasonal capacity accreditation and generator outage rules, two years after FERC approved the rules.
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New Western ‘Regional Organization’ Could be Folsom-based
The new "RO" envisioned by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative might be based near CAISO’s headquarters in Folsom, Calif., according to a straw proposal.
MISO
FERC Requires More Intel on MISO’s New Capacity Accreditation Method
FERC said it needs more explanation behind MISO’s plan to use a capacity accreditation that would accredit resources based on a combination of their projected availability and historical performance during periods of high system risk.

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