ERCOT staff and stakeholders began the process of implementing real-time co-optimization with the first meeting of the Real-Time Co-Optimization Task Force.

Ten transmission upgrades have been placed in service in New England since October, ISO-NE engineer Jon Breard told the RTO’s Planning Advisory Committee.

Asked by Texas’ Public Utility Commission to “reinitiate discussions” with stakeholders, ERCOT held a workshop to look at real-time co-optimization.

ERCOT CEO Bill Magness told the Board of Directors the grid operator will use favorable budget variances to fund the addition of real-time co-optimization.

PJM’s Operating Committee endorsed manual revisions in spite of FirstEnergy's challenge to the formula for judging primary frequency response performance.

ERCOT stakeholders moved to address the Texas grid’s growing pains by tweaking the system’s ancillary service offerings, which predate 2010.

Calpine’s modification of PJM’s energy price formation proposal emerged as the first choice members will consider at Thursday’s Markets and Reliability Committee meeting.

A summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the PJM Markets and Reliability (MRC) and Members committees (MC) on Jan. 24, 2019.

PJM will spend only $162,000 to test the winter capabilities of 21 generators totaling 477 MW in 2018, RTO officials told the Operating Committee.

FERC proposed to exempt market participants in ISO-NE, MISO, NYISO and PJM from its indicative horizontal market power screens.