NYISO congestion costs surged in the second quarter despite lower electricity prices, gas price spreads and load levels, the Market Monitoring Unit said.

MISO’s Steering Committee routed eight new market improvement proposals to stakeholders for debate and prioritization by voting.

PJM staff agreed to delay approval of revisions to generation outage procedures after stakeholders raised concerns over potential market consequences.

MISO is accepting proposals designed to relieve its costly North-South transmission constraint, but is still zeroing in on how to evaluate submissions.

MISO will take another crack at identifying a project that could provide an alternative to the constrained transmission path linking its North and South regions.

FERC approved CAISO Tariff changes designed to incorporate generator contingencies and remedial action schemes into its market optimization and congestion pricing methodology.

FERC approved PJM Tariff changes designed to be compliant with Order 844 by improving participants’ insight into transmission constraint penalty factors.

CAISO is recommending cutting more than $2.7 billion from current transmission spending estimates across the 2027 planning horizon.

a FERC administrative law judge has concluded that PJM’s system impact study process is unjust and unreasonable because of a lack of transparency.

The MISO Board of Directors learned about the recent discovery that PJM had been committing two market-to-market (M2M) errors.