MISO is forecasting a 35% planning reserve margin for the winter and has implemented several changes to improve coordination with pipeline operators and ensure fuel deliveries to its fleet.

The Northeast Energy Direct pipeline project is the best way to lower electricity prices and increase reliability, the staff of the NHPUC said in a report.

SPP is confident of its preparation for winter, although it will be adding the winter-peaking Integrated System to its footprint in October.

New York has adequate resources and improved operational practices to face the upcoming winter, a NYISO official told FERC.

FERC denied Sunflower Electric Power's request for a rehearing of a July 2014 order that rejected its bid to recover $5 million it claims it is owed for “backstopping” a power-supply arrangement.

FERC approved MISO's rate schedules for the system support resource agreements at three aging power plants on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

PJM is prepared to meet this winter’s load — even if it’s a bit higher than the record peak seen last season.

PJM staff, stakeholders, financiers, regulators and industry leaders debated the effects of environmental rules and RTO policies on the capacity market, reliability and investments at Infocast’s PJM Market Summit 2015.

FERC said it will require NERC to provide the commission access to its databases in what Chairman Norman Bay said is an effort to apply “Moneyball” techniques to reliability.

A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on Sept. 10, 2015.