Ancillary Services

Power Advisory
Operating Reserve Prices Surge in Ontario

The opening of Ontario’s nodal market has been marked by real-time volatility and unusually high operating reserve prices.

ERCOT
ERCOT’s TAC Extends Duration of Ancillary Services

ERCOT stakeholders advanced a protocol change that provides longer-duration ancillary services and state-of-charge parameters, among several other voting items, during their last TAC meeting.

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Power System’s Shifting Direction Highlighted at Energy Future Forum
President Donald Trump’s policies and the growth in demand from data centers and other new customers have changed the trajectory of the power system, speakers said at the Energy Future Forum.
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PJM MIC Briefs: May 7, 2025
PJM’s Market Implementation Committee discussed a proposal to revise its governing documents to allow DR resources to participate in the regulation market when there may be energy injected at the customer’s point of interconnection
EMC Engineering Services
NEPOOL Supports Timeline Revisions for ISO-NE Order 2023 Compliance
The NEPOOL Participants Committee voted to support an expedited filing adjusting several key dates in ISO-NE’s compliance proposal for FERC Order 2023.
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PJM MRC/MC Briefs: April 23, 2025
The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed a proposal to rework how resources are compensated for providing black start service the RTO says will provide more predictable revenues for participating market sellers.
PJM
PJM MRC/MC Preview: April 23, 2025
The committees are expected to vote on manual revisions and hear a proposal to rework how resources providing black start service are compensated.
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GCPA Hears Different Tales on Texas Load Growth from 2 CEOs
Two power industry CEOs at the Gulf Coast Power Association’s spring conference offered two different takes on ERCOT load growth over the rest of the decade — and how the sector should deal with a potential doubling of peak demand by 2031.
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GCPA Conference Examines the Biggest Change to ERCOT Market in 15 Years
ERCOT is poised to start testing real time co-optimization of energy and ancillary services in a few weeks and bring the change live this December, which will mark the biggest paradigm shift in Texas' wholesale markets in 15 years.
The Brattle Group
ACP Road Map Suggests Market Changes to Increase Storage Participation
ACP released a report produced by The Brattle Group laying out how organized markets can replicate the success CAISO and ERCOT have had in deploying energy storage resources.

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