Ancillary Services

ERCOT
ERCOT Board Approves $9.4B 765-kV Project
ERCOT’s Board of Directors has approved staff’s proposed 765-kV Eastern Backbone project and its $9.4 billion capital cost price tag, making it the most expensive project in the grid operator’s history.
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MISO Usage, Outages Up in Fall 2025
MISO and its Monitor tracked a rise in energy consumption in fall 2025 and reviewed some operational rough patches, while the RTO explained why its machine-learning risk predictor remains a work in progress.
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.
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.
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ERCOT Successfully Deploys Real-time Co-optimization
ERCOT says it has successfully deployed Real-time Co-optimization + Batteries into the market, a mechanism used in most other RTOs and ISOs that procures energy and ancillary services in real time.
CAISO
CAISO Ponders DER Market Participation in New Paper
A new CAISO paper lays out a series of challenges around how to improve participation of demand response and distributed energy resources in the ISO's day-ahead and real-time markets.
ERCOT
ERCOT Stakeholders Endorse $9.4B 765-kV Build
ERCOT stakeholders endorsed a 1,109-mile, single-circuit 765-kV backbone project that is projected to cost nearly $9.4 billion in capital costs, making it the largest initiative in decades.
AdminMonitor
Texas PUC Hints at Revisiting ERCOT Conservative Operations
Texas regulators approved ERCOT’s methodologies for determining minimum ancillary services for 2026 while hinting at the same time that they are considering discontinuing the use of conservative operations.
IESO
IESO Implementing ‘True-up’ on Renewed Market Rules
After more than six months of operations under its Market Renewal Program, IESO is implementing “non-substantive” rule changes it says will improve clarity and alignment.
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NYISO Meeting Briefs: Nov. 3-4, 2025
NYISO presented the results of Phase 1 of the 2024 Cluster Study process at a special Operating Committee meeting.

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