Tag: rto
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Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is currently developing a new participation model known as Price Adaptive Load (PAL) Service, designed to integrate flexible loads into the wholesale market and transmission system. Originating from SPP’s Large Load Initiative, PAL addresses a stakeholder need for a permanent, non-firm transmission service option for loads that can vary their consumption…
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Netting sounds like plumbing — a back-office accounting convenience that lets a grid operator collapse a jumble of charges and credits into one tidy number. For decades, that’s mostly what it was. But in the last three years, netting has become one of the most contested ideas in U.S. electricity regulation, showing up in fights…
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On June 18, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a landmark suite of six “show cause” orders directed at the nation’s major Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs). This action targets the “unprecedented growth” of large loads, such as data centers and industrial electrification, which FERC warns are currently being…