MISO CEO John Bear put a positive spin on the grid operator making do with little cushion in its supply.

FERC's summer assessment shows rising demand and prompted Chair Mark Christie to discuss recent developments in PJM.

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

The preliminary results of PJM’s look ahead at the capacity available for this summer and the expected peak loads suggest that about 5.4 GW of demand response could be needed to maintain the 3.5-GW real-time primary reserve requirement.

NRG Energy will acquire 13 GW of gas-fired power plants and virtual power plant operator CPower from LS Power.

Stakeholders asked FERC to force MISO to cut or dilute some of the harsher requirements of its proposed demand response participation and accreditation package.

Stakeholders urged FERC to consider reliability and consumer costs when weighing approaches to co-located large loads.

MISO said its next capacity auction in spring 2026 will feature more rigorous testing for its demand response that registers to provide capacity.

MISO announced it will scrap its plan to use an existing DR participation category to get aggregators of DERs participating on a limited basis a few years ahead of a full Order 2222 rollout in 2030.