North American wholesale electricity markets remained operationally stable during the week ending May 8, but institutional and infrastructure pressures continued to intensify across nearly every major organized market. Spring shoulder-season conditions generally moderated real-time pricing, with most markets avoiding sustained scarcity despite localized volatility tied to transmission congestion, renewable intermittency, and weather-driven load swings. In the western markets, CAISO and the WEIM footprint continued to emphasize operational readiness, transmission planning, and EDAM implementation. SPP and Markets+ likewise focused on governance and market development as Western integration efforts increasingly evolved into competition among alternative regional market structures.