FERC approved CAISO Tariff changes designed to incorporate generator contingencies and remedial action schemes into its market optimization and congestion pricing methodology.

The Department of Energy convened to gather information for the department’s 2019 electric transmission congestion study.

CAISO’s congestion revenue rights market showed unusual surpluses this summer because of higher congestion rents on Path 26.

The MISO market was competitive in 2017, but the RTO should do more to address increasing congestion and low capacity prices, Monitor David Patton said.

NYISO power prices averaged $35/MWh in April, up from $29.91/MWh in March and $31.06/MWh the same month a year ago.

SPP’s winter real-time prices increased 4.6% from the previous year, according to the Market Monitoring Unit’s latest quarterly State of the Market report.

Preliminary results from a biennial NYISO study show high congestion in three areas of the New York bulk power system.

FERC accepted the recommendations of SPP’s Market Monitoring Unit to eliminate the Woodward frequently constrained area (FCA) in Northwest Oklahoma.

FERC rejected state and local regulators’ rehearing request over MISO’s plan to include its South region in cost sharing for its TMEPs with PJM.

NYISO’s Management Committee approved proposed rule revisions that would allocate day-ahead market congestion rent shortfalls and surpluses.