PJM’s Monitor opened another front in its bid to strengthen its market power rules, challenging the renewals of rate authorizations in 14 dockets.

SPP staff are working feverishly to address FERC and Market Monitoring Unit concerns that threaten the launch of its Western Energy Imbalance Service market.

FERC approved a market power mitigation plan for an investment fund’s $4.3B purchase of El Paso Electric and rejected rehearing requests challenging its approval.

FERC approved NYISO’s revised buyer-side market power mitigation rules, prompting a scathing dissent from Commissioner Richard Glick.

PJM has responded to the Market Monitor’s annual State of the Market Report, highlighting five different areas of focus out of hundreds of recommendations.

FERC reaffirmed its rejection of a proposed net export limit to help the Western EIM avoid unintended consequences of market power mitigation.

FERC granted Goldman Sachs Renewable Power Marketing authority to make market-based sales but said it would consider it an affiliate of The Goldman Sachs Group investment bank despite its objections.

FERC rejected MISO’s bid to expand its Independent Market Monitor’s physical withholding mitigation to include non-capacity resources.

ISO-NE’s External Market Monitor presented the NEPOOL Markets Committee a design for mitigating market power in the day-ahead ancillary services market.

The New England Power Pool Markets Committee continued to work on ISO-NE’s proposed Energy Security Improvements proposal.