Climate change and the role of heating and cooling improvements for energy efficiency were the hot topics at a meeting of the ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group.

The evolving challenges of grid resilience and the past and future of New York’s REV took center stage at the 33rd Annual IPPNY Fall Conference.

The New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) Markets Committee debated ISO-NE’s proposals for conducting fuel security reliability reviews.

PJM is hoping to simplify its communication of items that require stakeholder action through a new “stakeholder impact slide” in presentations.

Most seem unhappy with the scope and assumptions of PJM's fuel security study, which RTO officials outlined during a special MRC conference call.

“Resilience” was uttered so many times during the PJM annual meeting that speakers were joking about using the word before making their own comments.

FERC should let RTO stakeholder processes work and not issue broad and costly new mandates on grid resilience, commenters told the commission.

FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said that he sees an “erosion of confidence” in RTO stakeholder processes.

PJM wants to take a more holistic look at how the grid’s supply chain works and factor the findings into its markets.

Citing reliability concerns, ISO-NE will ask FERC for a Tariff waiver to allow Exelon's 1,998-MW Mystic Generating Station to continue running.