Ancillary Services
ERCOT’s Board of Directors approved staff’s recommended methodologies for acquiring minimum ancillary service requirements in 2026, despite concerns over conservative operations and target procurement levels.
As NYISO continues its Capacity Market Structure Review, the Market Monitoring Unit used its second-quarter State of the Market report to highlight potential issues with how the ISO forecasts resource availability.
A developer in Maine is evaluating whether pumped storage – one of the oldest generation technologies still used on the New England grid – could play an increased role in the grid of the future.
ERCOT stakeholders, while raising concerns over the grid operator’s use of conservative operations, have endorsed staff’s recommendations for computing minimum ancillary service quantities for 2026.
MISO is poised to close the door on summer with an almost 122-GW peak while issuing several capacity advisories for MISO South.
PJM presented a first read on a proposal to cap resources committed ahead of the day-ahead market at their cost-based offer, and the committee endorsed an expansion of an offer capping issue charge.
PJM’s Kevin Hatch presented an update on how two heat waves between July 14-17 and 23-30 affected PJM operations, which involved multiple demand response deployments and emergency alerts and advisories.
ERCOT says all systems are go — or more specifically, green — and early market trials have been successful as the Real-time Co-optimization plus Batteries project barrels to its Dec. 5 go-live date.
A new report shows the MISO footprint could ring up $27 billion in additional system costs through 2050 if it and members miss the boat on developing new gigawatts of battery storage.
PJM's Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed by acclamation an issue charge by Constellation Energy focused on how storage as a transmission asset could be implemented in the RTO.
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