AEE presented a paper recommending that ISO-NE and NEPOOL consider borrowing from NYISO’s effort to plan for a renewable-heavy future.

The NEPOOL Reliability Committee discussed load forecasting method changes, DC-coupled facilities' participation in the markets and transmission upgrades.

ISO-NE energy demand has fallen 3 to 5% since stay-at-home orders began being implemented across New England, the NEPOOL Reliability Committee heard.

ISO-NE’s wholesale market costs last fall declined 38% year over year to $1.5 billion, with both energy and capacity market costs decreasing significantly.

At the NEPOOL Reliability Committee, stakeholders pushed back on ISO-NE’s draft assumptions on improving system fuel security.

Dominion Energy is replacing the Unit 3 generator and feedwater measurement equipment at the Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut.

The NEPOOL Reliability Committee voted to recommend or approve several transmission projects, generation facilities and ISO-NE governing document revisions.

The NEPOOL Reliability Committee reversed its September rejection of ISO-NE’s proposed installed capacity requirement calculations for FCA 14.

NEPOOL’s Reliability Committee did not endorse ISO-NE’s installed capacity requirement values, as the Generation and Supplier sectors voted in opposition.

ISO-NE provided the NEPOOL Reliability Committee with more details on the forecasting changes that impacted the ICR in the CELT summer demand forecast.