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ERCOT
ERCOT Monitor Recommends New Market Design in Report
ERCOT's Independent Market Monitor’s annual market report recommends resurrecting a multi-interval, real-time design, among other things.
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NYISO MMU Calls for Improved Shortage Pricing, More Capacity Zones
NYISO needs to improve shortage pricing and create smaller capacity zones, the ISO’s market monitoring unit reports in its 2022 State of the Market report.
Texas State Senate
Market Monitor Pans ERCOT Market Redesign
ERCOT’s IMM continues to criticize Texas regulators’ preferred market redesign, saying what they have proposed is a “less effective and efficient."
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NECA Panelists Talk Capacity Market, DERs
A panel of energy experts took ISO-NE’s capacity market to task, lambasting the region’s Forward Capacity Market and offering ideas about how to improve it.
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NYISO Over-crediting Poorly Performing Units’ Capacity, Monitor Says
NYISO is qualifying generation units for meeting their reserve requirements even though they fail to provide adequate reserves during normal market operations.
S&P Global
NYISO Monitor: Freezing Weather Could Threaten Eastern NY Reliability
Gas supply to Eastern New York could be limited during freezing weather because demand may exceed interstate pipeline capacity, NYISO’ stakeholders were told.
FERC
States Urge More Transparency on Tx Planning, Independent Monitors
State regulators and consumer advocates urged FERC to order increased oversight over transmission owners' planning and spending.
Storage Underestimated in NYISO ‘Outlook,’ MMU Says
NYISO’s long-term planning forecast underestimates the role of merchant storage and increases the apparent need for transmission, according to the ISO’s MMU.
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Battle Lines Drawn on FERC Tx Planning NOPR
Commenters disagreed over FERC’s proposed transmission planning rules, sparring over its 20-year planning horizon and reinstatement of the federal ROFR.
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ERCOT Board of Directors Briefs: June 21, 2022
ERCOT’s Board of Directors has resolved one of two contentious issues between staff and stakeholders, setting the other aside for the time being.

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