ISO-NE’s 2018 Regional Electricity Outlook reiterates concerns about fuel security that were detailed in a separate report published by the RTO last month.

PJM staff told Operating Committee meeting attendees that they are looking at ways to improve operations after reviewing performance during January.

Paul Bailey, CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, argues that the severe winter weather last month demonstrates the continued need for coal-fired generation.

Soaring natural gas prices, customer satisfaction and credit requirements were all on the agenda during a meeting of NYISO’s Management Committee.

Midwest gas-fired generators have made incremental improvements to ensure fuel supply over the past year, MISO stakeholders learned.

Generators fared better during the early January cold snap than in the 2014 polar vortex, officials told Congress, but New England needs to take urgent preventative action.

FERC allowed NYISO to temporarily waive energy offer caps in response to recent natural gas price spikes stemming from this winter’s extreme cold snap.

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.

PJM stakeholders endorsed changes to how generation ownership is transferred despite a concern about a required 45-day prefiling.

While the high load and generation outages followed the pattern of the polar vortex, MISO managed to keep prices stable and maintain better reliability.