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GREENTECH MEDIA | NY Governor Wants Zero-Carbon Electricity by 2040

Dec. 18, 2018 | New York Governor Andew Cuomo announced Monday that he will push for New York to transition to 100 percent clean electricity by 2040, in a statement outlining his agenda for early 2019.

PRESS RELEASE | NYISO Launches New Website, Continues Long Tradition of Transparency and Enhancing Access to Power Grid Information

Dec. 13, 2018 | Rensselaer, NY | The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) launched a new website that will provide easier access to grid-related publications, reports and studies; a more user-friendly search engine; real-time power delivery data; and other materials related to managing New York's electric grid.

POWER MARKETS TODAY | NYISO Task Force Offers Carbon in Markets Proposal

Dec. 11, 2018 | NYISO's Integrating Public Policy Task Force Friday released a draft proposal to include a price on carbon in its markets. New York State is pursuing decarbonization of its economy with the goal of cutting CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2050.

PRESS RELEASE | NYISO Forecasts Adequate Electric Capacity for Winter 2018-19

Dec. 11, 2018 | Rensselaer, NY | On the threshold of the upcoming winter, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) projects that New York’s electric system has the capacity to meet demand for electricity and maintain necessary operating reserves during cold weather conditions through the 2018-19 winter season.

POLITICO NEW YORK | NYISO carbon price print

Dec. 10, 2018 | The New York Independent System Operator released its latest proposal for pricing carbon in the wholesale electricity market on Friday. The proposal represents hours of discussions, several spreadsheets of crunched numbers and intense work by NYISO staff, outside consultants, interested energy players and advocates.

RTO INSIDER | NYISO Plan Revises Treatment of Carbon-Free Resources

Nov. 27, 2018 | NYISO said Monday it would revise its carbon pricing proposal to enhance the bidding treatment for carbon-free resources and help prevent carbon leakage within its market.

PRESS RELEASE | NYISO Reliability Assessment Finds the Planned Bulk Power System Sufficient to Meet Reliability through 2028

Nov. 01, 2018 | Rensselaer, NY | New York State’s bulk power system as planned is adequate to meet reliability needs for the next decade, according to the New York Independent System Operator’s 2018 Reliability Needs Assessment (RNA).

PRESS RELEASE | NYISO Board of Directors Names NYISO General Counsel Robert Fernandez Interim President and Chief Executive Officer

Oct. 17, 2018 | Rensselaer, NY | The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) today announced that its Board of Directors has named Robert Fernandez, NYISO’s General Counsel, to be interim President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.

EASTERN INTERNCONNECTION PLANNING COLLABORATIVE | EPIC Completes Report on State of Eastern Interconnection

Oct. 04, 2018 | A report issued today on the State of the Eastern Interconnection, the collection of power systems serving two-thirds of the US and Canada, describes the coordinated planning undertaken to maintain the reliability of the bulk power system.

EXELON | Cleaning the Air: Take on Tackling Carbon Emissions by Charging True Cost to Society

Sep. 18, 2018 | Given the urgency of the climate challenge, we commend New York ISO for undertaking this nation-leading effort to properly value generators' environmental attributes and achieve New York's carbon reduction goals.

RTO INSIDER | Overheard at IPPNY 2018 Fall Conference

Sep. 18, 2018 | The evolving challenges of grid resilience and the past and future of New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision took center stage at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s Annual Fall Conference on Friday.

CITY & STATE NEW YORK | How to get to '50 by 30'

Aug. 22, 2018 | Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared two years ago that New York would generate half of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030. The mandate has a catchy tagline to accompany it: “50 by 30.”

UTILITY DIVE | New York studies European offshore wind industry to inform development plans

Aug. 17, 2018 | New York has set aggressive plans for developing its nascent offshore wind industry, targeting 2,400 MW of capacity by 2030, and announced last week it will be studying European offshore wind transmission models in an effort to benefit from advances made on the other side of the Atlantic.

RENEWABLES NOW | New York to study offshore wind transmission

Aug. 09, 2018 | New York power agencies and partners will be exploring offshore wind transmission options, focusing on large-scale projects in Europe, the state’s governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.

RTO INSIDER | NY Energy Market Summit Tackles DER

Aug. 09, 2018 | New York is charting its own course for integrating distributed energy resources into its grid, different from the path trod by states with already high rates of penetration, industry experts said this week.

SMART ENERGY INTERNATIONAL | NYISO pilot programme for distributed energy resources

Jul. 31, 2018 | The New York grid operator - NYISO - is piloting three distributed energy resource (DER) pilot programmes, designed to improve New York's energy infrastructure.

PRESS RELEASE | NYISO Announces Distributed Energy Resource Pilot Projects

Jul. 26, 2018 | Demonstration of DER aggregations seek to expand market competition and improve New York's energy infrastructure Rensselaer, NY | The New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) today announced the selection of three pilot projects to demonstrate the capabilities of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and options for their integration into its wholesale markets.

UTILITY DIVE | New York's energy storage target could end up at 3 GW by 2030

Jul. 10, 2018 | The plan supports Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's energy storage target of 1,500 MW by 2025, but several sources say the final plan could call for an even more ambitious target. Reaching that target, though, could involve challenges that are largely outside of the scope of New York energy agencies.

TIMES HERALD-RECORD | Nonprofit: State's power grid is good shape for summer

Jul. 03, 2018 | New York’s electric grid will have enough juice to meet the summer demand, according to the independent nonprofit that manages the power grid.

RTO INSIDER | NYISO MC Supports AC Transmission Projects

Jun. 28, 2018 | NYISO stakeholders on Tuesday again backed joint proposals by North America Transmission (NAT) and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to build two 345-kV transmission projects that could cost $900 million to $1.1 billion.

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