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.

NYISO is qualifying generation units for meeting their reserve requirements even though they fail to provide adequate reserves during normal market operations.

The PJM Planning Committee reviewed a slate of proposals to address capacity interconnection rights for effective load-carrying capability resources.

Texas lawmakers once again grilled the PUC and ERCOT over the commission's proposed market redesign.

NYISO defended its proposal to set a 10-kW minimum for DER participation in an aggregation, citing out-of-date software and staff's capacity.

MISO reported a later completion of its market platform replacement and added two new members while members installed new Advisory Committee leadership.

MISO members agreed that the future generation mix is arriving faster than previously thought during a “mind the gap” Advisory Committee discussion Dec. 7.

CAISO issued its final plan to add a day-ahead market to its real-time Energy Imbalance Market, and PacifiCorp said it would join if the plan is approved.

MISO mostly sailed through fall, encountering rough patches only when unseasonably warm weather clashed with generator maintenance season.

FERC’s delayed response to ISO-NE means that distributed energy resources won’t have a new way to participate in the grid operator’s next capacity auction.