Jeffrey McDonald, currently Manager of Market Analysis and Mitigation at the California ISO, will join ISO-NE on April 28 as Vice President of Market Monitoring, succeeding David LaPlante, who will retire this summer. Download the PDF

In 2013, natural gas pipeline constraints and higher demand caused prices for both natural gas and wholesale electricity to rise over 2012's record low prices. Preliminary data show the average natural gas price rose 76% to $6.97 per million Btu and the average wholesale electric energy price rose 55%, to $56.06 per megawatt-hour in 2013. The total value of the region's wholesale energy market was about $8 billion. Download the PDF