Market Monitor David Patton went before the MISO Market Subcommittee  to begin building stakeholder support for his eight new recommendations.

Cheap natural gas pushed ERCOT's energy costs and congestion revenue to record lows in 2015, the IMM reported in his state of the market report.

The Independent Market Monitor reported that PJM had lower LMPs, fuel prices and demand in the first quarter in its quarterly State of the Market report.

The SPP Market Monitoring Unit released its State of the Market report for the winter months, and the RTO and AECI began their biennial study proc

The SPP State of the Market report said coal-fired resources accounted for 52.1% of generation in the fall of 2015, compared to 62.7% in 2013.

The report concluded that PJM's energy, capacity and regulation markets were competitive for the first nine months of the year.

MISO has a pile of 22 active recommendations made over the years by its Independent Market Monitor, all in various stages of progress. Of 15 past recommendations through the 2013 State of the Market Report, MISO is working to implement six.

PJM energy market prices were down almost 40% in the first half of 2015 compared with 2014, while capacity and transmission service charges rose.

The Integrated Marketplace’s first 12 months of operations provided the highlights for SPP's 2014 State of the Market report.

SPP will soon file a full report on the Integrated Marketplace’s first year of performance, but its most recent quarterly State of the Market report indicates the market expansion hasn’t affected the fundamental dynamics in the region.