Texas PUC staff and ERCOT staff have been "living on coffee and anger" as they work together to redesign the state's deregulated market.

MISO and the Organization of MISO States said things are looking up in their annual resource adequacy assessment.

MISO and SPP state regulators are trying to inventory the instances and costs of duplicate transmission charges along their seams to mitigate rate pancaking.

MISO announced it will table the effort to analyze network upgrades and wait until the end of the year to see how its long-term transmission plan develops.

FERC’s directive to open wholesale markets to aggregations of DERs is forcing states to consider more holistic system planning.

SPP’s average hourly load was off 7% last fall from the previous two years, the RTO’s MMU said in its latest quarterly State of the Market report.

SPP regulators agreed to keep up their collaboration with MISO regulators, saying the effort is pressuring the RTOs to resolve their seams issues.

MISO will draw on its new planning futures to build the first set of models that could result in the long-term transmission plan’s first projects.

SPP and MISO regulators would like to see the RTOs improve seams relations by resolving rate pancaking and adding a smaller interregional project category.

In 2020 MISO managed remotely, redefining reliability standards, reorganizing its capacity market and launching a long-term transmission planning effort.