The NYISO Board of Directors has rejected two appeals of Management Committee votes on capacity zones and locational capacity requirements.

Increased renewable power integration will shift the peak load in MISO to evening hours, with a spikier but shorter daily loss-of-load risk.

MISO is switching gears on a previous proposal to discontinue its practice of forecasting long-term capacity import and export limits.

Preliminary estimates show that MISO’s capacity requirements and available supply for the 2018/19 capacity auction will be in line with last year’s figures.

State and consumer representatives asked for education sessions during the first meeting of PJM’s new Summer-Only Demand Response Senior Task Force.

MISO officials are examining how they can capture the risk of planned and maintenance outages occurring during peak load.

The PJM Planning Committee approved revisions to the rules for the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan, agreeing to extend the cycle to 18 months.

MISO is considering prohibiting resources on extended outages from participating in capacity auctions or other changes to capture the risk of such outages.

PJM can maintain adequate reliability with a generation fleet almost entirely composed of natural gas units, according to a study the RTO released.

General assumptions regarding winter operations will need to be replaced with actual data to improve PJM’s winter resource adequacy analysis.