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RTC Deployed, ERCOT Takes on New Challenges in 2026
Having finally added real-time co-optimization to the market like every other U.S. grid operator with an effort that began in 2019, ERCOT can turn its attention to other pressing issues.
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EDAM Implementation to Remain CAISO’s Focus in 2026
The Extended Day-Ahead Market took center stage at CAISO in 2025 as the ISO tabled other long-term initiatives to ensure the market’s timely launch in May 2026, with PacifiCorp as its first participant.
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Will Batteries Remain a Clean Energy Bright Spot in 2026?
In 2026, utility-scale energy storage projects in the U.S. will face headwinds that could slow the pace of a technology that is fast becoming a global grid staple, warns columnist Dej Knuckey.
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Brattle/Dragos: Battery Systems Create New Cybersecurity Risks
A new white paper from The Brattle Group and cybersecurity firm Dragos is sounding the alarm about the potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities posed by battery energy storage system infrastructure.
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Report Shows Cost Savings from New Solar, Storage in New England
A new report estimates that solar and battery storage growth in New England between 2025 and 2030 could reduce wholesale energy costs across the region by about $684 million annually by 2030.
American Clean Power Association
ACP Tallies 11.7 GW of Solar, Storage, Wind Additions in Q3
New solar, battery storage and onshore wind power generation totaled 11.7 GW in the third quarter of 2025, the American Clean Power Association reported.
Duke Energy Renewables
SPP’s ELCC Methodology Contested at Appeals Court
The Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council filed a petition with an appeals court to toss two recent FERC orders that granted SPP’s request to modify provisions for clean energy resources’ capacity accreditation.
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GridLab: More Renewables Could Have Saved Billions in PJM Auction

If just 10% of the land-based renewables in PJM’s generator interconnection queue had been developed, the total cost of the RTO’s 2026/27 capacity auction would have been reduced by $3.5 billion, according to an analysis GridLab commissioned by Aurora Energy Research.

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Constellation Proposes up to 1,500 MW of New Capacity in Md.
Constellation Energy is proposing 714 MW of new gas-fired peaker capacity and up to 800 MW of storage in response to a Maryland solicitation.
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Now a Mature Industry, Batteries Face a More Certain Future
Reports of the energy storage industry’s demise are greatly exaggerated, experts said during the American Clean Power Association’s annual Energy Storage Summit.

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