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ERCOT TAC Opens Discussion on Proposed RTC Changes
ERCOT stakeholders have begun discussions on a pair of protocol revision requests related to the grid operator’s real-time co-optimization and battery project, set to go live in December.
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NEPOOL Transmission Committee Briefs: Feb. 27, 2025
ISO-NE revised its compliance proposal for FERC Order 904 to allow generators to be compensated for reactive power outside the standard power factor range.
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PJM MIC Briefs: Feb. 5, 2025
PJM’s Market Implementation Committee narrowly endorsed a PJM proposal to use ELCC to model the availability of demand response resources in all hours, along with other changes to how DR accreditation is determined.
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NYISO Assessing Impact of Trump’s Canada Tariff on Electricity Market
NYISO opened the Installed Capacity Working Group meeting by telling stakeholders it is assessing the impact of President Donald Trump’s 10% tariff on “energy resources from Canada” on its markets. 
PJM
PJM MIC Briefs: Jan. 8, 2025
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.
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NYISO MC Approves Dynamic Reserves, Regulation Multiplier Proposals
During its last meeting of the year, the NYISO Management Committee approved two proposals that would institute a new design for the reserve market and alter a calculation used in the regulation service market. 
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PJM MIC Briefs: Dec. 4, 2024
PJM's Adam Keech told the Market Implementation Committee the RTO plans to file governing document revisions with FERC to expand the requirement that resources must offer into the capacity market to also apply to all resources holding capacity interconnection rights.
MISO
MISO Records Comparatively Smaller Peak in October Operations
MISO experienced an October peak load of 84 GW, which was lower than its 99-GW peak during the same period in 2023.
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PJM Stakeholders Wary of Expedited Interconnection Proposal
Stakeholder opinions were sharply divided at the PJM Members Committee’s meeting regarding RTO proposals to allow high capacity factor resources to be sped through the interconnection queue and revise aspects of the capacity market. 
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Future of Power Markets Discussed at Aurora Energy Conference
The Inflation Reduction Act and other policies have made the U.S. into one of the most attractive places to invest in clean energy, but completing the energy transition will require additional advances, according to panelists at the Aurora Energy Transition Forum.

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