The NEPOOL Reliability Committee approved the Bay State Wind project’s request to increase its capacity by 40 MW, reflecting a move to larger turbines.

The NEPOOL Markets Committee will vote in January on two proposals to modify ISO-NE’s generator retirement rules.

The NEPOOL Markets Committee approved ISO-NE’s proposed compliance filing to implement FERC Order 2222.

Merchant generators joined ISO-NE’s Internal Market Monitor in warning that the RTO’s proposal to eliminate MOPR will suppress prices.

Limited fuel supplies put the New England grid at heightened risk of emergency actions — including controlled outages — this winter, ISO-NE said.

FERC Commissioner Allison Clements told the ISO-NE CLG that the U.S. is facing a changing resource mix that requires intelligent transmission planning.

ISO-NE stakeholders approved tariff changes that incorporate a new transmission planning process focused beyond the RTO’s current 10-year planning horizon.

Canada has a price on carbon pollution, but it’s not a perfect system, said a speaker at the annual Association of Power Producers of Ontario conference.

ISO-NE presented to the PAC its scope of work and modeling assumptions for its 2050 Transmission Study.

A panel of conservative electricity market experts argued that markets work better than public policy at encouraging and developing clean energy resources.