September 30, 2026
FERC Commissioner Calls RBP "Half-Baked"
PJM said in a market notice that, "At this time, PJM will not proceed with the Reliability Backstop Procurement," after a FERC decision subjected PJM's RBP filing to a five-month suspension and paper hearing process, with FERC concluding that several aspects of the RBP, "may be unjust and unreasonable".
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September 28, 2026
ERCOT said in a market notice that ERCOT is to receive about $85 million as a result of a settlement between the trustee of a bankrupt retail provider and the REP's wholesale supplier
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September 23, 2026
The Pennsylvania PUC has scheduled for November 17, 2026 a technical conference concerning cost allocation issues arising from large loads
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September 18, 2026
PSC Staff, OPC Say PJM Has Confirmed That Actual Program Design Not Needed By PJM Until Sept. 2027
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (“BGE”), Delmarva Power & Light Company (“Delmarva Power”), and Potomac Electric Power Company (“Pepco”) (collectively, the “Joint Maryland Exelon Utilities” or “JMEU”) told the Maryland PSC that the JMEU do not consider it viable to develop a PJM-compliant peak-shaving program that would allow the utilities to opt-out of PJM's Reliability Backstop Procurement (RBP) auction prior to an October 2026 deadline
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September 17, 2026
Various stakeholders, in comments in a Texas PUC quinquennial review of the system-wide offer cap in ERCOT, have recommended increases in both the real-time and day-ahead offer caps
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September 17, 2026
Staff of the Maryland PSC are "skeptical" of, "the value of establishing a long-term, open-ended process for procuring [electric] supply in Maryland to alleviate resource adequacy at least cost to ratepayer," Staff said in comments on a preliminary report concerning new capacity policy options
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September 14, 2026
As the Pennsylvania PUC released a report from a consultant indicating that, by 2030, a modeled reliability risk is nearly six times worse than PJM's planning standard due to data center growth, Pennsylvania PUC Chair Steve DeFrank stated, "The PUC will continue doing everything within our authority…
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September 14, 2026
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated an order from the U.S. Department of Energy which had directed, based on DOE's assertion of emergency power, continued operation of Consumers Energy's Campbell coal-fired power plant.
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September 11, 2026
The Maryland PSC has opened consideration of using the opt-out process under PJM's reliability backstop procurement (RBP), and issued a series of questions for comment (PC 82)
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September 10, 2026
PUC Chair Notes Cost Allocation Will Be, "Challenging"
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted a motion from Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow to hold a technical conference this fall concerning cost allocation issues arising from large loads
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September 8, 2026
IMM Favors End Of ERCOT ERS Program In Light Of LLDMS
In comments at the Texas PUC, Base Power Company has urged the PUC to avoid overly restrictive rules for the new statutorily required Large Load Demand Management Service (LLDMS), in order to allow innovative solutions such as the use of aggregated distributed energy resources (ADERs) to meet a…
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September 2, 2026
Staff of the Maryland PSC have recommended that the PSC adopt a proposed expedited schedule filed by the Office of People's Counsel to allow consideration of alternatives to ensure that PJM backstop reliability procurement (RBP) costs are not borne by customers who are not large loads
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September 2, 2026
ERCOT will host a workshop to present the deployment mechanics, registration process, and draft revision requests to implement several of the Large Load curtailment provisions required under Senate Bill 6 (SB6)
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September 1, 2026
ERCOT formally filed at the Texas PUC a report on ERCOT's ancillary and reliability services cost allocation study, which finds that, "After a thorough evaluation of each of the three alternative allocation methods, the study found that none of the three alternative methods would be expected to…
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September 1, 2026
In comments at the Massachusetts DPU, the NRG Energy Retail Companies said that, "for customers served by municipal aggregators and/or retail suppliers, ISO-NE should allocate transmission costs directly to those municipal aggregators and/or retail suppliers that wish to have that option, rather…
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August 21, 2026
Texas PUC Staff sought comments on the ERCOT Scarcity Pricing Mechanism and Emergency Pricing Program as part of a five-year review of the system-wide offer cap programs in ERCOT
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August 20, 2026
The New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) has set an effective date for implementation of additional operating reserve procurement requirements throughout the New York Control Area (NYCA) to account for anticipated forecast uncertainties in both the Day-Ahead Market and Real-Time Market…
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August 14, 2026
PJM, in formally seeking FERC approval of an Interim Resource Adequacy Service (IRAS), is not proposing a specific PJM cost recovery mechanism for IRAS
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August 11, 2026
ERCOT in a Texas PUC filing recommends delaying its next Long-Term Load Forecast (LTLF) as a result of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's directive for a comprehensive verification and audit of all data centers advancing through ERCOT’s interconnection process, rather than using an alternative LTLF forecast…
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August 11, 2026
Staff of the Maryland PSC, and the Maryland utilities, have each filed comments responding to various PSC questions concerning the allocation of costs under PJM's Reliability Backstop Procurement (RBP), with the comments generally indicating an intent that responsible large loads (or other large…
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July 28, 2026
PJM Proposes Allocation Of Backstop Capacity Procurement Costs To LSEs; Also Addresses Allocation Of New Interim Resource Adequacy Service To Retail Customers
PJM, in finalizing a proposed reliability backstop capacity procurement (RBP), will newly propose at FERC a new credit requirement for LSEs linked to LSEs' backstop procurement obligations
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July 27, 2026
Staff of the Texas PUC have filed a draft proposal for publication to implement, for the ERCOT market, a Large Load Demand Management Service (LLDMS) to competitively procure demand reductions from large load customers
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July 14, 2026
The Maryland PSC has sought comment on issues related to cost recovery of costs under PJM's Reliability Backstop Procurement [RBP] proposal
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July 14, 2026
PJM Interconnection today announced the results of its 2028/2029 Base Residual Auction, which produced a price of $325/MW-day, which is the FERC-approved price cap
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June 22, 2026
Chevron Corporation today announced that Energy Forge One LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to develop a co-located power facility in West Texas that will provide dedicated electricity to a Microsoft-operated data center under a 20-year power purchase…
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