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NYISO Monitor Report Highlights Generator Outages During Heat Wave
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.
SPP
SPP Names Director to Lead Markets+ Monitoring
SPP named Tim Vigil, chief member relations and strategy officer for Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative, as director of the Market Monitoring Unit’s office dedicated to Markets+.
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MISO Recounts Tough Summer; Monitor Praises Lack of Emergencies
MISO said 2025 was the most demanding summer since 2012, though it steered the grid with only a single maximum generation event.
Western Energy
New Challenges Await Pathways After Success in Calif. Legislature
With California passing the bill designed to transition the governance of CAISO’s markets to an independent regional organization, new challenges await the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative as the coalition seeks to turn a once-elusive goal into reality.
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PJM MIC Endorses 2 Quadrennial Review Proposals
The PJM Market Implementation Committee voted to endorse two packages of revisions to key parameters of the capacity market out of six offered by PJM and stakeholders that resulted from the Quadrennial Review.
PJM
PJM Operating Committee Briefs: Sept. 11, 2025
PJM's Operating Committee heard an update on the Aug. 11 load-shedding event in Baltimore, which brought 20 MW offline for about half an hour following equipment failures at the Brandon Shores substation
Ontario Energy Board Market Surveillance Panel State of the Market Report 2023
Ontario Market Monitor Revamps Techniques for IESO Nodal Market
Ontario’s energy regulator is learning new ways to identify inefficiencies and malign behavior under IESO’s Market Renewal Program.
Office of Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris
Pathways Bill Passes Calif. Legislature in Lopsided Votes
California lawmakers have passed a landmark bill that will allow CAISO to transition the governance of its markets to the independent “regional organization” envisioned by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.
CAISO
WEIM Prices Rise on Higher Gas Costs in Q2 2025
Western Energy Imbalance Market prices increased sharply in the second quarter of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, mostly due to higher natural gas prices at Western hubs.
CAISO
CAISO Price Formation Proposal Looks to Reduce ‘Unnecessary’ Market Mitigation

After years in the making, CAISO released a price formation proposal intended to reduce “unnecessary” market power mitigation, strengthen reliability and provide consistent pricing incentives in the WEIM and future EDAM.


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