The Ontario Energy Board plans a 22% increase in its 2025/26 budget with the addition of 32 employees, its biggest hiring surge in at least five years.

The tone of Infocast’s 2025 Midcontinent Energy Summit was noticeably apprehensive compared with last year, owing to political and regulatory uncertainty, load growth ambiguity, fluctuating tariffs and a pending complaint against MISO’s long-range transmission plan.

Community solar developer Nexamp filed a complaint against National Grid with the New York Public Service Commission accusing the utility of unfair price increases and violating state interconnection process agreements.

New Jersey faces tough decisions on how to balance the risk of blackouts against the cost of reducing their frequency as the state confronts the unprecedented future energy demand surge facing the region.

IESO opened discussions on new rules for storage facilities and hybrid resources that will enable the provision of regulation service.

MISO is free to keep working toward its 2030 goal of fully incorporating aggregators of distributed energy resources into its markets without an interim participation option.

CAISO is working on an initiative to improve the visibility of distributed battery storage resources on the grid, especially for when they are needed for resource adequacy.