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August 29, 2018
The Michigan PSC adopted an order maintaining the current state reliability mechanism (SRM) capacity charge at Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corporation (UMERC) until a final order in Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corporation’s next general rate case.
August 24, 2018
Luminant, a subsidiary of Vistra Energy, today announced that it filed a notice of suspension of operations with PJM and other mandatory regulatory notifications related to the retirement of its 51-megawatt waste coal facility, Northeastern Power Company, in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, "due to its…
August 24, 2018
Starts Review By Proposing Questions On Wholesale Price Formation
In a proposed process to begin a review of the Summer 2018 ERCOT Market Performance, Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas noted that the PUC may wish to address lessons learned and issues related to retail mass transitions and market participant collateral, in addition to other issues…
August 14, 2018
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. petitioned FERC for a one-time waiver of provisions of the PJM Open Access Transmission Tariff as necessary to enable PJM to delay its 2019 Base Residual Auction (BRA) for the 2022/2023 Delivery Year until August 14-28, 2019, to the extent FERC extends the comment process…
August 10, 2018
After finalizing the questions at yesterday's open meeting, the Texas PUC issued questions for stakeholder comment in Project No. 48540, Review of Real-Time Co-optimization (RTC) in the ERCOT Market, and Project No. 48539, Review of the Inclusion of Marginal Losses in Security-Constrained Economic…
August 3, 2018
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have proposed a process for the Commission to consider real-time co-optimization of energy and ancillary services in ERCOT ("RTC") and to consider including marginal losses in security-constrained economic dispatch
August 2, 2018
ERCOT has submitted as a sponsor Other Binding Document Revision Request (OBDRR) 007 for revisions to the Operating Reserve Demand Curve (ORDC) methodology to include Photo-Voltaic Generation Resources (PVGRs)
July 30, 2018
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. filed tariff revisions at FERC which it said are designed to, "limit potential credit exposure of PJM Members with Financial Transmission Rights ('FTR') portfolios, i.e. FTR Holders, that have little to no credit requirement relative to the megawatt-hour ('MWh') volume of…
July 25, 2018
The Maine PUC issued a request for proposals for long-term contracts for capacity resources and associated energy, initiating the process for the solicitation and review of long-term contract proposals pursuant to Title 35-A, section 3210-C and Chapter 316 of the Commission's rules.
July 23, 2018
Citigroup Energy, Inc. has sponsored and filed with ERCOT Nodal Protocol Revision Request (NPRR) 887 which would create a new Market Information System (MIS) Certified Area posting which it said would provide insight to the potential risk associated with default uplift charges to each Counter-Party…
July 23, 2018
ERCOT stated in a July 20 market notice that, "An issue was discovered in ERCOT’s Energy and Market Management Systems (EMS and MMS) with respect to the definitions of two double-circuit contingencies, DCNLHS8 and DLHSCNR8," relating to operating days July 18 and 20, 2018
July 16, 2018
The State of Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that the Michigan PSC lacks the authority to require alternative electric suppliers to meet local capacity clearing requirements
July 13, 2018
During yesterday's Texas PUC open meeting, Commissioners discussed a process to further consider two potential changes to the ERCOT market -- Real-Time Co-optimization (RTC) of Energy and Ancillary Services (AS), and use of marginal losses.
July 6, 2018
ERCOT issued a market notice stating that two City Of Garland generating units which have filed to be mothballed are not needed for transmission system reliability
July 2, 2018
Marginal Losses Report Filed As Well
ERCOT and the Independent Market Monitor have filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas separate reports on the benefits of Real-Time Co-optimization (RTC) of Energy and Ancillary Services (AS).
June 14, 2018
PJM said in a market notice that, on June 12, 2018, PJM declared Amerigreen Energy, Inc. in default of Amerigreen's payment obligations under the PJM Operating Agreement for non-payment of its May 1-30, 2018 month-to-date weekly invoice.
June 11, 2018
ERCOT received a Notification of Suspension of Operations (NSO) for the following Generation Resources:
June 1, 2018
FERC approved a contested settlement agreement concerning the cost allocation methodology for existing and new transmission facilities in PJM, modifying the prior cost allocation due to remands from the courts.
May 31, 2018
Notes "Slight" Increase In Competitive Retail Customer Bills Of Other ERCOT LSEs From Proposal
Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative, Inc. and Lone Star Transmission, LLC have filed a petition at the Texas PUC for: (1) approval to transfer and integrate Rayburn's load and related transmission assets currently in the Eastern Interconnection (Southwest Power Pool) to the Electric Reliability…
May 30, 2018
Note: This story was first published the evening of May 30 with an alert to our email subscribers
May 29, 2018
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed an updated estimate of installed generation capacity in ERCOT.
May 25, 2018
FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) said that none of its three nuclear plants, with combined capacity of 4,048 megawatts, received a commitment in the PJM 2021/22 Base Residual Auction
May 25, 2018
Calpine Corporation cleared a total of 5,152 MW in PJM’s 2021/2022 base residual auction.
May 24, 2018
Vistra Energy Corp. has reported its results from the PJM capacity auction for planning year 2021/2022.
May 24, 2018
PJM's base residual auction for the 2021-22 delivery year saw Rest-of-RTO capacity prices nearly double versus 2020-2021, with the BGE, PSEG, and ATSI zones among those separating
