Regional transmission organization

This is RTO Insider Daily Headlines for Wednesday, October 28.

Here are today's 11 stories.

Doe to loan Constellation up to $5 billion for nuclear uprates.

The U.S. Department of Energy has made a conditional commitment to loan Constellation Energy up to $5 billion to increase the output of eight nuclear plants by nearly 1.1 gigawatts.

PJ merges Ferx to reject Monpower's winter operations complaint.

PJM asked Ferx to reject a complaint from Monpower seeking refunds of $145 million, with the RTO saying its operational decisions were justified and market certainty should be preserved.

PG and E data center applications increase, completed projects lag.

Pacific Gas and Electric continues to add new data centers to its project queue, but the number of facilities coming online in the past two years has been lighter than one might think.

This is RTO Insider Daily Headlines for Monday, October 26.

Here are today's 11 stories.

Roelec's board chair moves very rapidly on CEO appointment.

Counties and municipalities across the West are not waiting for state leaders to address growing public concern about data centers during upcoming legislative sessions that start in January 2027.

MISO members largely denounce DO emergency coal plant orders.

MISO's advisory committee has precious few supporters in its ranks of the U.S. Department of Energy's use of emergency orders to prevent the retirement of three coal plants in the RTO's footprint.

ISO NE transmission owners add $1.8 billion to asset condition list.

ISO NE transmission owners added new asset condition projects totaling $1.8 billion since the last update to their project list, the RTO told the Planning Advisory Committee.

This is RTO Insider Daily Headlines for Friday, October 23.

Here are today's nine stories.

The market is working, EDAM operations successful, Pacificorp says.

New Jersey is directing $500 million in funds from the state's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative allocation to help ease surging electricity bills amid a growing debate about whether the CAP and INVEST program is no longer effective and has become a ratepayer burden.

MISO Advisory Committee asks for role in IMM Best Practices Review.

MISO's Advisory Committee is seeking involvement in the ongoing third-party best practices review of the RTO's Independent Market Monitor, which could reshape the boundaries of the IMM's role and strengthen board oversight.

Majority of new projects in ISONI transitional cluster have withdrawn.

Facing interconnection cost estimates averaging over $100 million.

A third, entirely separate local utility company owns the wooden poles and wires going into your specific neighborhood and sends you your bill.

And a completely separate non-profit administrative body, the Regional Transmission Organization, manages the flow of power between all of them.

And the way they decide how much electricity costs on any given day is through a complex system of blind auctions.

Exactly.

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Here are today's 10 stories.

NERC committees highlight importance of Canada outreach.

Best management practices for seams would save up to $840 million per year across the West in a split day-ahead market scenario, Aurora Energy Research found in a new study.

ISO-NE puts finishing touches on CA CAR/SA proposal prior to November votes.

ISO-NE discussed late-stage tweaks, and stakeholders made their cases for amendments to the RTO's wide-ranging proposal of capacity accreditation and seasonal capacity auction reforms in preparation for upcoming votes.

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