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February 21, 2025

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NYISO
NYISO Liaison Subcommittee Briefs: Feb. 11, 2025
NYISO still is looking for clarification on President Donald Trump’s pending 10% tariff on energy imports, Mark Seibert, manager of ISO member relations, told the Liaison Subcommittee 
Wyoming Business Council
Pathways ‘Step 2’ Plan Elicits Praise, Concerns — and Advice
A workshop on the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative has sparked praise for the proposal as well as concerns, including uneasiness over plans to share staffing between CAISO and a new regional organization that would govern Western electricity markets.
ISO-NE
NEPOOL Markets Committee Briefs: Feb. 11, 2025
ISO-NE continued discussions with stakeholders on its capacity auction reform project at the NEPOOL Markets Committee, providing more information on planned changes to the resource retirement process.
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NASEO Panel Explores Coordinated Planning to Meet Demand Growth
The U.S. electric power industry faces unprecedented challenges from the size, pace and impacts of demand growth and should look to new approaches for possible solutions, according to speakers at NASEO’s Energy Policy Outlook Conference.
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PJM MIC Briefs: Feb. 5, 2025
PJM’s Market Implementation Committee narrowly endorsed a PJM proposal to use ELCC to model the availability of demand response resources in all hours, along with other changes to how DR accreditation is determined.
PJM
PJM OC Briefs: Feb. 6, 2025
PJM credited emergency procedures with improving generator performance during a pair of winter storms in January, including a new all-time winter peak of 145,060 MW.
ERCOT
ERCOT Board of Directors Briefs: Feb. 3-4, 2025
ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas says the grid operator’s proposal to build more than $30 billion of extra-high-voltage transmission infrastructure is part of a “new era in planning” and just an incremental step from its normal practices.
Dominion Energy
PJM TEAC Briefs: Feb. 4, 2025
PJM's Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee heard a presentation about the preliminary 2029 congestion results in the 2024/25 Base Case.
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NYISO Assessing Impact of Trump’s Canada Tariff on Electricity Market
NYISO opened the Installed Capacity Working Group meeting by telling stakeholders it is assessing the impact of President Donald Trump’s 10% tariff on “energy resources from Canada” on its markets. 
Khorramfar et al.
Study Finds Savings from Heating Electrification in New England
While heating electrification in New England is poised to drive major increase in peak demand, electrifying about 80% of households could reduce the combined cost of the region’s electric and gas systems by 21 to 29%, according to a new study.

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