NYISO exceeded its winter baseline peak load forecast on Feb. 7, its COO told the Management Committee.

The conversation during a five-hour meeting on changes to NYISO’s transmission planning processes became heated at times, as stakeholders challenged ISO officials on exactly how they will develop the possible scenarios they propose to determine reliability needs.

NYISO is proposing to use a set of multiple scenarios rather than relying on a single base case in its Reliability Planning Process to avoid study-by-study fluctuations in determining reliability needs.

FERC accepted five new reliability standards setting requirements for model validation and data sharing for inverter-based resources.

The NYISO Operating Committee discussed the challenges it faced while successfully navigating through several events in January, including a major winter storm.

New York is trying to strike a balance between economic development, grid stability and affordability as potential new large load customers look for electricity.

The average cost for electricity in NYISO was $201.89/MWh in January, up nearly 53% from January 2025 and possibly the highest ever for the month, the ISO reported.

NYISO began what is expected to be a yearlong effort of revising its Reliability Planning Process at a Transmission Planning Advisory Subcommittee meeting.

New York generators had to rely on oil as gas was scarce throughout the Eastern Interconnection during the Jan. 25-27 winter storm, NYISO said in a preliminary analysis.

Rising electricity prices in New York are driven by the increased cost of gas because of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War and increased LNG exports, according to a recent policy paper by NYISO.