Colorado utility Platte River Power Authority is the latest Western utility to express intent to evaluate participation in SPP's RTO West.

Load interests continued to oppose PJM’s proposal to change the market seller offer cap, a month after it failed to meet the two-thirds endorsement threshold.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors approved a protocol change that eliminated unsecured credit.

About 40% of the proposed capacity seeking interconnection in NYISO’s class year 2021 is not deliverable without expensive upgrades, the ISO reported.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors unanimously approved a nodal protocol revision request that will lower unsecured credit limits from $50 million to $30 million.

CAISO's revised plan for a WEIM extended day-ahead market makes changes to transmission requirements and penalties for failing resource sufficiency evaluations.

The PJM MRC will vote on rules governing the inclusion of variable environmental charges in cost-based offers and four sets of capacity auction parameters.

The California State Legislature passed a resolution requesting that CAISO report on efforts to create an RTO in the West and its potential benefits.

The Bonneville Power Administration has said it will become the first western utility to formally commit to funding development of SPP’s Markets+ in the West.

SPP and Western entities interested in the RTO’s Markets+ “RTO light” offering continued to inch toward each other during another development session.