February 23, 2025

ISO New England (ISO-NE)

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Multistate Offshore Wind Solicitation Lands 2,878 MW for Mass., RI
Massachusetts and Rhode Island selected 2,878 MW of offshore wind project bids from the states’ coordinated solicitation, which would be the region’s largest offshore wind procurement.
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ISO-NE: New Mechanisms May be Needed to Ensure Future Grid Reliability
As the variability of generation and demand increases on the grid, market enhancements may be needed to promote dispatchable resources, ISO-NE told the PAC.
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Form Energy to Develop First Multiday Storage Project in New England
A major multiday energy storage project in central Maine intended to ease congestion is moving forward thanks to $147 million in federal funding.
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NEPOOL Reliability/Transmission Committee Briefs: Aug. 13-14, 2024

New England transmission owners have presented a $185 per kW-year regional network service rate for 2025, an increase over the $154 per kW-year rate in 2024.

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FERC Establishes Settlement Procedures for ISO-NE IEP Exit Request
FERC established settlement judge procedures in response to a waiver request from a generator seeking to exit ISO-NE’s inventoried energy program and refund the net revenues received from the program.
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ISO-NE Outlines ‘Straw Scope’ of Capacity Market Reforms
ISO-NE responded to stakeholder feedback on its capacity auction reform project at the NEPOOL Markets Committee meeting, providing clarity on the scope of its capacity market overhaul. 
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NEPOOL Participants Committee Briefs: Aug. 1, 2024
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.
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ISO-NE Capacity Accreditation Reforms Spur Energy Storage Concerns
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.
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FERC Ends Section 206 Proceeding for New Brunswick Energy Marketing
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.
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Report Says New Energy Metrics Needed
A new report from NERC and the National Academy of Engineering explored the shortcomings of traditional resource adequacy metrics and alternatives under development.

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