The CAISO Board of Governors approved two measures intended to prevent the early retirement of unprofitable but needed generation in California.

Having thrice been rejected in its attempts at majority ownership, NextEra Energy is now making a long-shot bid to acquire a minority in Oncor.

CAISO will gather feedback on its proposal for reliability payments to keep Calpine’s Metcalf gas-fired plant from retiring.

Generation owners in CAISO are urging changes in an ISO reliability proposal for determining which unprofitable generators are eligible to receive payments.

CAISO unveiled its latest revisions to a program meant to compensate uneconomic generation units needed to maintain reliability.

The ERCOT energy-only market may not be broken, but stakeholders will discuss some fine-tuning at a PUCT workshop this week.

ERCOT’s wholesale market performed “competitively” in 2016, the ISO’s Independent Market Monitor said in its annual State of the Market report.

CAISO stakeholders voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of a new ISO initiative to prevent early retirement of unprofitable generators.

At last week's ERCOT Board of Directors meeting, CEO Bill Magness highlighted the ISO's growing wind resources and the challenges they pose to reliability.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved an ERCOT request to share confidential generator-specific information with Lubbock Power & Light.