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November 3, 2014
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) expects the region will have sufficient electric supplies this winter, based on a broad range of planning scenarios in the Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy (SARA) released Friday.
October 30, 2014
PJM is taking an "express lane" to impose billions of new capacity costs on consumers under its flawed capacity performance and transition mechanism, several retail suppliers, public power utilities, state regulators, and industrial customers (the transition coalition) said in comments to the PJM…
October 24, 2014
Incremental capacity costs to load serving entities from a transition to PJM's proposed capacity performance product in the three years for which a base residual auction has already been held are estimated to be as high as $4 billion annually, PJM and the Independent Market Monitor said in a joint…
October 23, 2014
The legal reasoning used by FirstEnergy in a FERC complaint that seeks to eliminate demand response from participation in the capacity market would also mean that FERC lacks jurisdiction to create and compel participation in capacity markets, the Pennsylvania PUC said in a protest of FirstEnergy's…
October 23, 2014
Granting a complaint from FirstEnergy which seeks to exclude demand response from participation in the PJM capacity market, including re-running, without demand response, the already cleared May 2014 capacity auction, "would create a windfall for existing generators," Direct Energy said in a protest…
October 23, 2014
-- Flawed Wholesale Market Cost Retail Market The Chance to End Utility-Offered Default Service
Retail energy suppliers' businesses in Pennsylvania are in jeopardy due to the flawed wholesale market design, including the capacity market, should the state experience another winter like last year's polar vortex, PUC Commissioner James Cawley told the National Energy Marketers Association's…
October 21, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit has granted FERC a stay of the court's May decision which found FERC lacked jurisdiction to set compensation for demand response.
October 14, 2014
The New York PSC has issued an agenda for its November 5 joint technical conference with FERC concerning the New York ISO capacity market.
October 10, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas will conduct a workshop in Project No. 43506, Review of Subsynchronous Oscillation Study Parameters in the ERCOT Region, on Wednesday, November 19, 2014.
October 10, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has directed the Independent Market Monitor and Texas Reliability Entity to "investigate" the load shedding event that occurred in the Lower Rio Grande Valley on October 8.
October 9, 2014
ERCOT instituted rotating outages limited to the Lower Rio Grande Valley for an approximately two-hour period yesterday
October 8, 2014
PJM has issued a "road map" for how demand response could be treated in light of an appeals court holding that demand response compensation, in the energy market, is a "retail" matter and outside of FERC's purview.
October 1, 2014
PJM has filed tariff revisions at FERC to institute a Demand Bid Screening process which will prevent Load Serving Entities from submitting Demand Bids into the Day-ahead Energy Market, "above a level that is commensurate with the amount of load they serve."
September 30, 2014
The Independent Market Monitor has released the 2013 state of the market report for the ERCOT market.
September 30, 2014
FERC has approved a settlement between DC Energy, LLC, Scylla Energy LLC, and PJM resolving disputes concerning the application of deviation charges to internal bilateral transactions (IBTs) that waives payment of $10 million of the amount originally ordered to be paid by certain market participants…
September 30, 2014
Exelon Generation announced that it is planning on adding nearly 2,000 MW of new generation in ERCOT's energy-only market.
September 29, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas intends to tackle issues related to subsynchronous oscillation (SSO) on parallel tracks, agreeing to further study technical issues, while intending to make progress on cost allocation (to the extent possible) while such studies are ongoing.
September 23, 2014
A group consisting of retail suppliers, end users, and state regulators have raised concerns that PJM is ignoring the costs and other issues associated with the transition to a modified capacity market that includes PJM's new capacity performance product.
September 22, 2014
Load in PJM is paying $433 million in additional costs due to PJM's load forecast used in the capacity market undercounting the impact of energy efficiency, a report by Brattle prepared for the Sustainable FERC Project concludes.
September 22, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed three potential options for next steps in the Commission's investigation of subsynchronous oscillation (SSO).
September 18, 2014
The New York PSC and FERC will hold a joint technical conference to address New York markets and infrastructure on November 5.
September 18, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeal of the D.C. circuit has denied en banc rehearing of its earlier order striking down FERC Order 745, FERC's order which provided that demand response shall be paid full LMP.
September 17, 2014
By taking no action on the filing of the results from ISO New England's capacity auction for the 2017-18 delivery period by September 15, FERC allowed ISO-NE's tariff filing containing the results of the auction to become effective by operation of law.
September 10, 2014
FERC has accepted without modification ISO New England's 2014-15 winter reliability program, a series of non-market programs and compensation which are said to be needed to assure reliability.
September 8, 2014
FERC has scheduled for October 28 a second workshop on price formation in the organized markets.
