MISO Midwest entered emergency status during the RTO’s first serious heat wave of the summer.

SPP expects to have a “high probability” of enough generation to meet demand during peak-use hours this summer, despite predictions of higher-than-average temperatures in the RTO’s footprint.

Stakeholders expressed confusion and concern with the most recent updates to NYISO’s operating reserves performance penalty proposal.

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

NYISO has proposed the metrics for identifying operating reserve suppliers that consistently underperform as part of its plan to remove them from the market.

FERC gave MISO the go-ahead to set its value of lost load at $10,000/MWh by early fall, nearly three times as high as the current $3,500/MWh value.

PJM’s markets provided reliable service in 2024, but tightening supply and demand are laying bare design flaws that have inhibited the competitiveness of the RTO’s markets, the Independent Market Monitor wrote in its 2024 State of the Market Report.

MISO emerged from winter 2024/25 without turning to emergency procedures despite wide-ranging winter storms Jan. 6-9 and again Jan. 20-22.

PJM gave more detail on its plan to scale back a 30% adder it added on the synchronized and primary reserve requirement in May 2023.