In its State of the Market report, ERCOT's Market Monitor said the grid operator's conservative operations approach undermines the energy-only market’s design.

Potomac Economics is recommending that NYISO take a comprehensive approach to lowering the costs of satisfying the grid’s needs and improving incentives.

Energy prices in PJM increased by 75.5% in the first quarter of 2022 from a year ago, the Market Monitor reported, driven primarily by higher fuel costs.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved the RTO’s fourth competitive transmission project, awarding a $55 million, 345-kV facility to NextEra Energy Transmission.

Rising natural gas prices and extreme weather pushed wholesale electricity prices higher in 2021, FERC said in its annual State of the Markets report.

PJM energy prices last year surged to their highest levels since 2014, more than making up for declines from the pandemic-driven economic downturn in 2020.

SPP’s MMU is “strongly” recommending that TCRs' funding shortfall be considered a high-priority item, according to its latest quarterly market reports.

PJM’s energy prices continued to rise into the third quarter of 2021, the Independent Market Monitor reported, but they also remained competitive.

MISO last week said its Independent Market Monitor was reasonable with the four market changes he proposed in his 2020 State of the Market report.

SPP’s MMU released its quarterly reports for its RTO and WEIS markets, saying it is evaluating rule changes in the latter to address limited ramp offerings.