Webinar

Seismic Shifts and the Ongoing Regulatory Aftershocks

Join Yes Energy and RTO Insider for an in-depth discussion of the stories that dominated last year’s headlines and will continue shaping the industry in 2026.

Led by RTO Insider Editor-in-Chief Rich Heidorn Jr., this on-demand discussion explores:

How political shifts could test FERC’s independence under a Trump administration—and what that means for energy regulation.
The growing tension between federal policies supporting fossil fuel reliability and efforts to sustain renewable market growth.
Key developments in the Texas market, including updates on the Texas Energy Fund (TEF) and Reliability Deployment Framework (RTC+B).
The evolution of Western markets, from WRAP withdrawals to the EDAM vs. Markets+ competition and the emergence of new regional entities like ROWE.

Meet the Speakers

Editor Emeritus

Rich is a former reporter and editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he began covering the electric industry as Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware introduced competition in the late 1990s. His coverage won the National Press Foundation’s 1998 award for energy reporting. He later headed a Houston-based startup that produced hourly power indexes and worked as an energy analyst for Bloomberg Government. In between, he worked for eight years in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Enforcement, where he became a whistleblower — proving he was not cut out for government work. He holds a journalism degree from Penn State University and an MBA from Temple University.

Manager, Market Monitoring Team

Portia Gilman manages the Market Monitoring Team, a group that stays abreast of the ISO energy markets so you don’t have to. The team serves internal and external clients with regulatory market knowledge and subject matter expertise on the impacts to Yes Energy’s clients, data, and the energy industry as a whole. Previously, Portia was an analyst for ISO New England’s internal market monitoring group for over six years, specializing in compliance, price formation, SCED dispatch, and capacity market economics.