Despite above-average temperatures, the ISO-NE energy market value was down slightly in July 2024 relative to July 2023, ISO-NE COO Vamsi Chadalavada said at the NEPOOL Participants Committee meeting.

As ISO-NE undertakes major capacity market accreditation reforms, New England storage developers are voicing concerns that potential flaws in the RTO’s modeling methodology could discourage new investments in storage resources.

FERC approved all the jurisdictional ISO/RTO compliance filings with Order 895, which established rules for sharing credit information among the organized markets.

FERC ruled that New Brunswick Energy Marketing does not appear to have horizontal market power in the New Brunswick balancing authority area, concluding a Section 206 proceeding that came out of a failed market share screening test.

A new report from NERC and the National Academy of Engineering explored the shortcomings of traditional resource adequacy metrics and alternatives under development.

Panelists at a forum convened by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Federal and Regional Energy Affairs said advanced transmission technologies will be essential to limiting transmission costs.

The NEPOOL Reliability Committee voted to support new data collection standards for distributed energy resources, and ISO-NE outlined potential changes to planning procedures and the affected system operator process.

Following the increase of the transfer limits of three internal interfaces in Maine, ISO-NE increased the capacity import capability of the New Brunswick-New England interface from 700 MW to 980 MW.