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Stakeholder Services: Meet the NYISO Professionals Dedicated to Customer Service in a Changing Electric Grid

Going above and beyond is an essential part of the job for the NYISO’s Stakeholder Services team, which works every day to solve problems for market participants and stakeholders in a quickly changing electric industry.

NYISO Interconnection Update: 30-Day Extension for Completing Applications

The NYISO has provided a 30-day extension for resolving insufficient applications in its new interconnection process. The streamlined process is designed to accommodate a larger volume of renewable energy resources seeking to connect to the grid since the passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019.

Podcast 35: Emilie Nelson on NYISO's Ground-Breaking DER Program to Connect Small-Scale Energy Resources to the Grid

As the diversity and scale of energy resources have evolved in recent years, NYISO’s market design team has been working hard to create and implement market innovations to support those technologies.

VIDEO: People Who Power New York: Electrical Engineer Finds Her Faraway Home

Growing up in Hefei, China, Wenjin Yan often watched her father, an electrical engineer, rush out the door to address a problem on the power grid.

How Historic Transmission Projects Bridged an Upstate-Downstate Clean Energy Divide

The AC Transmission Projects, completed in 2023, have improved energy deliverability in so-called “wind pockets,” parts of New York where more renewable energy is produced than can be delivered to consumers.

VIDEO: People Who Power New York: "Bringing Out the Best in His Crew"

Brandon Cheely loves figuring how to optimize performance – whether it’s the software that runs electricity markets or the team he manages at the NYISO.

FAQ: The Capacity Market & Demand Curve Reset, What You Need to Know

In the NYISO’s wholesale markets, the cost of a megawatt hour (MWh) of energy can be understood as a combination of two parts: the energy price and the capacity price. One megawatt can power 800-1,000 homes.

Podcast Ep. 34: How the Capacity Market Supports Electric System Reliability

Our mission at the NYISO is to ensure power system reliability and competitive markets for New York in a clean-energy future, and to work with all stakeholders to build the cleanest, most reliable electric system in the nation.

Enhancing the Interconnection Process: the NYISO’s Commitment to Improving the Integration of New Generation Projects onto the Grid

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has made significant improvements and enhancements to the interconnection process, crucial for integrating a high volume of new generation facilities onto the grid.

VIDEO: Enhancing the Interconnection Process to Connect More Clean Energy

There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of new generation projects seeking to connect to the bulk power system since the passage of the CLCPA in 2019. As the grid evolves, careful coordination and thorough analysis is required to safely and reliably connect new resources to the system.

VIDEO: People Who Power New York: "Fostering a Spirit of Giving"

One of the things that distinguishes the NYISO is our culture of giving. Serving New Yorkers with reliable power is part of our mission, but going beyond that is something HR Manager Sarah Knox knows a lot about.

Podcast Ep. 33: Udayan Nair is NYISO’s First Director of Grid Transition

When we talk about building a more sustainable future, the journey is as important as the destination. Steering the electric grid through these monumental changes requires leadership and creativity.

VIDEO: People Who Power New York: "A Spark for Teaching"

Participants and other stakeholders in NYISO-administered wholesale electricity markets count on experts like Mathangi Srinivasan for training. Whether they attend course offerings as a refresher, or are starting with basics, Mathangi finds her role as a Market Training Program Lead to be very fulfilling.

VIDEO: People Who Power New York: "Lifeguards of the Grid"

Our operators who oversee New York’s power grid are like “a lifeguard on the ocean,” says Jon Sawyer, Director of Grid Operations at the NYISO. “You're monitoring, you're tracking, but when an emergency happens ‘right now’ you've got to go do something.”

VIDEO SERIES: Connecting More Renewable Energy to the Grid

“For the past few years an overwhelming number of clean energy requests have rushed into our interconnection queue with a process that was not originally designed for this large volume of requests,” says Manager of Facilities Study, Wenjin Yan. The interconnection queue is an important piece in helping meet the state’s policy goals. In this new video series, we highlight the efforts underway to improve and expedite the connection of more renewable energy to the grid.

Power Players: The NYISO Women Leading a Grid in Transition

(PictureL-R: Cheryl L. Hussey, Vice President & CFO; Tara Lefevre, Senior Manager, Control Room Operations; Deneen Byrne, Vice President of Human Resources; Emilie Nelson, Executive Vice President & COO; Yachi Lin, Director, System Planning; Karen G. Gach, Deputy General Counsel; Juliann Madara, Director of Internal Audit) From an engineering perspective, the electric system in New York has until recently looked largely as it did in 1882 when Thomas Edison launched the world’s first cogeneration plant in lower Manhattan.

Eclipse 2024: What Happened to Solar Generation Across New York?

As we recently highlighted, there was a tremendous amount of interest about the impacts of the 2024 solar eclipse on solar generation and the bulk power system here in New York.

Podcast Ep. 32: Modeling the Path to Decarbonization with Cornell's Dr. C. Lindsay Anderson

What does the path to a decarbonized grid by 2040 look like? Dr. C. Lindsay Anderson of Cornell University is working to answer the question of where best on the grid to incorporate large amounts of new generation on the future grid to achieve optimal performance.

NYISO’s Comprehensive Reliability Plan Identifies Future Challenges to Grid Reliability

The System and Resource Planning Department at the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) recently completed our 2023-2032 Comprehensive Reliability Plan (CRP), which analyzes the electric system on a ten year time horizon for reliability risks and investment needs to keep the electric system reliable.

Eclipse 2024: Keeping the Lights on When the Skies Go Dark

As millions of New Yorkers are treated to a view of a total solar eclipse, we at the NYISO will be monitoring its impacts and managing the power grid, which is incorporating more clean energy resources than ever.
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