ISO-NE plans to bring staff back to its Holyoke, Mass., headquarters in phases over the summer, CEO Gordon van Welie told the NEPOOL Participants Committee.

NEPOOL participants seem to be in “overall agreement” with ISO-NE’s approach to finalizing compliance with FERC Order 845.

ISO-NE energy demand has fallen 3 to 5% since stay-at-home orders began being implemented across New England, the NEPOOL Reliability Committee heard.

ISO-NE’s wholesale market costs last fall declined 38% year over year to $1.5 billion, with both energy and capacity market costs decreasing significantly.

ISO-NE’s Energy Security Improvements initiative hit a snag when the NEPOOL Markets Committee failed to recommend it to the Participants Committee.

At the NEPOOL Reliability Committee, stakeholders pushed back on ISO-NE’s draft assumptions on improving system fuel security.

FERC rejected ISO-NE Tariff revisions to clarify that resources retained for fuel security reasons will not be retained for other reasons once the fuel security retention period ends.

ISO-NE and NEPOOL stakeholders are collaborating to study market and reliability issues the region will face as it decarbonizes over the next decades.

Dominion Energy is replacing the Unit 3 generator and feedwater measurement equipment at the Millstone nuclear power plant in Connecticut.

ISO-NE intends to design a forward ancillary services market to complement the day-ahead one proposed under its ESI initiative.