The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected FERC's logic for approving a 10% cost adder in PJM's capacity market.

MISO defended its June 10 decision to call an emergency to access load-modifying resources at last week's Market Subcommittee meeting.

ISO-NE presented its revised Order 2222 compliance proposal to the NEPOOL Markets Committee, including changes to EAS market participation and more.

Public interest and consumer groups asked Congress to order an independent study on the impact of FERC wholesale market policies on costs and reliability.

The Texas Public Utility Commission’s rookie electric utility regulators last week stood in front of the proverbial fire hose, wielded by ERCOT staff, market participants and the grid’s Independent Market Monitor, as they try to get a grip on how best to respond to February’s disastrous winter storm. In what the PUC billed as the …

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Clean energy advocates mounted new attacks on the Southeast Energy Exchange Market, saying it would offer a fraction of the benefits of an organized market.

According to a report from the External Market Monitor, energy prices and uplift costs in ISO-NE are higher compared to other RTO markets.

Stakeholders unanimously endorsed PJM's proposed solution and tariff revisions addressing interconnection construction service agreements.

FERC Chairman Richard Glick says "the time is right for the states, the region’s utilities and other key stakeholders" to form one or more Western RTOs.

The development of a single RTO covering the U.S. portion of the Western Interconnection could save $2 billion a year in energy costs by 2030, study says.