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ISO New England FERC 2222 Compliance
Order No. 2222, issued on September 17, 2020 by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, was created with the intent usher ISOs/RTOS in the electric grid in the electric markets "by removing the barriers preventing distributed energy resources (DERs) from competing...
MISO MUI 2.0 Parallel Operations Date Extension
MISO has extended the scheduled end of MUI 2.0 Parallel Operations from Tuesday, January 18th to February 2022; an exact date has not been announced at this time. To address known issues that inhibit some customers from migrating to the new MUI 2.0, MISO made the...
Southeast Energy Exchange Market (SEEM)
As posted to the SEEM website, SEEM is "a group of energy companies serving electricity customers across a wide geographic region in the southeastern U.S.," focused on "delivering an integrated, automated intra-hour energy exchange with goals of lowering costs to...
CAISO Battery Storage Initiatives
CAISO recently published an article discussing lithium-ion battery storage capacity and its heightened publicity it has received from the public eye. According to the post, "no electrical grid in the country, if not the world, has integrated more battery storage onto...
ISO New England (ISO-NE) Winter Supply
With recent weather extreme behavior, ISO New England (ISO-NE) is looking to the future to plan for any uncertain fuel supply risk that could lead to emergency actions if severe prolonged cold weather comes this winter season. Gordon van Welie, ISO New England's...
PJM retires obsolete TLS protocols
Today, Monday, December 13 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. EPT (1800-2000 hours) PJM is retiring obsolete TLS protocol configurations in PJM internet-facing website. As part of this effort, PJM aims to stop supporting TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 protocols and certain insecure ciphers,...
MISO Short-Term Reserve
The MISO Short-Term Reserve (STR) is a new ancillary service that will be included in the Day-Ahead and Real-Time Market co-optimization of all Energy and Operating Reserves products. STR is designed around current out-of-market operator actions and is known as...
ERCOT New Navigation and HTTPS Protocol
During November 17-20, 2021, ERCOT made enhancements to the ERCOT.com navigation menu as well as some content display changes. Additionally, the website will now utilize HTTPS protocol for enhanced security. Below are details following the November 17, 2021 website...
ISO New England MIS FTP Sandbox Environment
According to ISO New England, ISONE will make improvements to the Market Information Server (MIS) File Transfer Protocol (FTP) accounts and the related Customer and Asset Management System (CAMS) MIS Accounts functionality later this year. In order for participants to...