ISO-NE will not alter its energy efficiency performance standards outside the stakeholder process, FERC reassured stakeholders Tuesday.

The budding efforts to increase the energy efficiency of U.S. marijuana operations will become increasingly critical as the commodity grows into a global market, energy industry experts said Monday.

Rocky Mountain Institute founder Amory Lovins told the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit that electric intensity could fall even more dramatically in the future.

FERC accepted ISO-NE’s informational filing for Forward Capacity Auction 12, rejecting protests over qualification rules.

PJM’s Tim Horger provided an update on the RTO’s efforts to comply with the FERC plan on fast-start resources at the Market Implementation Committee meeting.

ISO-NE forecasts sufficient resources to meet demand for electricity and will implement special operating procedures to maintain winter reliability.

New York is fine-tuning its Clean Energy Standard (CES) and closing the books on the energy efficiency programs used since 2008.

“Everything has to change,” New York State Chairman of Energy and Finance Richard L. Kauffman said at Greentech Media’s New York REV Future 2017 conference.

The Illinois Commerce Commission conditionally approved Ameren’s request to lower the utility’s energy-efficiency goals under state law.

Ameren Illinois may have hit a roadblock in its efforts to lower its energy efficiency targets prescribed under a new law.