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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.
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FERC OKs Extension of WEIM Assistance Energy Transfer Feature
FERC granted CAISO's request to remove the sunset date on the Western Energy Imbalance Market Assistance Energy Transfer feature, which has been used by more than 10 of the market’s balancing area authorities in recent years.
IESO
IESO Tweaking Make-whole Payments for Operating Reserves
IESO proposed rule changes to eliminate unwarranted make-whole payments to operating reserve providers under Ontario’s nearly eight-month-old Market Renewal Program.
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FERC Report Urges West to Address Looming Market Seams Issues
A new FERC report adds to the growing body of work showing the complexity of confronting the seams issues likely to arise between the West’s two day-ahead markets when compared with challenges at the borders between RTOs and ISOs in the Eastern U.S.
Xcel Energy
FERC Ends Nonpublic Investigations into Winter Storm Uri
FERC has closed its enforcement investigations into possible unlawful activity related to 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, just a few months before the statute of limitations on the issue is to expire.
Alcoa
FERC Gives Go-ahead on Tougher MISO DR Testing Rules
FERC greenlit MISO’s plan to require its demand response to make real-world demand reductions to fulfill the RTO’s testing requirements.
CAISO
Market Monitor Urges CAISO to Reconsider EDAM Intertie Proposal
CAISO's Department of Market Monitoring has asked the ISO to re-evaluate its intertie scheduling proposal for the Extended Day-Ahead Market due to potential impacts on market participants.
Google
PJM Stakeholders to Vote on Large Load CIFP Proposals
PJM stakeholders are to vote on a record-breaking number of proposals on how the RTO should integrate large loads without impacting resource adequacy.
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Updated: SPP Markets+ Cruising Through Early Development
SPP says the development of its Markets+ day-ahead market in the West is proceeding on time and under budget, with the hard part yet to come.
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.

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