ISO-NE presented its proposed 2022 operating and capital budgets to the NEPOOL Participants Committee.

PJM stakeholders unanimously endorsed the 2021 reserve requirement study but requested more modeling on the impacts of extreme weather conditions.

Stakeholders challenged PJM on the methodology the RTO used in its 2021 fuel security analysis, saying it may not be capturing all risks from severe weather.

Winter Storm Uri continued to command attention in the energy sector, dominating conversations at the Gulf Coast Power Association’s spring conference.

Western BAs should determine what caused errors in load and generation forecasts during August’s massive heat wave and fix their forecasting processes.

WECC is developing an information website as it uncovers more findings about the August heat wave that prompted rolling blackouts.

PJM stakeholders heard a first read of the RTO’s packages for mitigating and avoiding critical infrastructure under NERC rules.

PJM stakeholders unanimously endorsed proposed changes to the 2021 day-ahead scheduling reserve requirement and winter weekly reserve target.

The Markets and Reliability Committee endorsed revisions to PJM’s rules for liquidating defaulted financial transmission rights positions.

MISO should have adequate capacity to navigate winter but could still face abnormal weather-related outages or a load-shedding event.