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September 4, 2014
Proposed changes just to the PJM variable resource requirement (VRR) curve would cost over $4 billion over three years, a coalition of state regulators, consumer advocates, and industrial customers said in a letter to PJM's Board of Managers.
September 3, 2014
ERCOT expects to have sufficient electricity available to keep up with peak demands this fall and the upcoming winter, it said in two seasonal assessments.
September 2, 2014
FERC has opened a Section 206 investigation regarding PJM Up-to Congestion (UTC) charges, including their treatment as virtual transactions, and the method of application of the Financial Transmission Rights (FTR) forfeiture rule to UTCs.
August 4, 2014
Events of last winter have made obvious what critics of capacity markets have long-stated, and have forced PJM, in a draft problem statement published Friday, to concede that, "the current set of performance incentives and penalties for Capacity Resources does not sufficiently address all that is…
July 30, 2014
PJM issued a notice to market participants that, "certain external interchange scheduling practices could result in notification of such transactions by PJM, and/or referral by the Independent Market Monitor (IMM), to the FERC Office of Enforcement for investigation."
July 17, 2014
A settlement resolving a complaint by Odessa-Ector Power Partners L.P. against ERCOT concerning ERCOT's manual overrides of Odessa-Ector Power Partners, L.P.'s High Dispatch Limit (HDL) on November 15, 16, and 20, 2012 calls for resettlement of the disputed intervals.
July 14, 2014
The AES Corporation announced today that it has decided to retain DPL Inc.'s 3,453 MW of generating assets.
July 9, 2014
Maryland is the latest state to seek confidential offer data from the recent 2017/18 PJM Base Residual Auction
June 30, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have scheduled a workshop for September 12 regarding its Review of the reliability standard in the ERCOT region (Project No. 42302)
June 30, 2014
The New York PSC found that opposition from other independent power producers to a sale under which the Danskammer would return to service, "defeat[s] the very purpose of instituting electric wholesale markets in the first instance -- to foster robust competition."
June 30, 2014
FERC on Friday issued a letter order to ISO New England calling ISO-NE's filing of the capacity auction results for 2017-18, "deficient," and directed the ISO to submit more information, with a particular emphasis on mitigation and actions taken to prevent manipulation.
June 25, 2014
The allegations from two "speculators" in a lawsuit against GDF SUEZ Energy North America, "are an attempt to have this Court reject the design of the ERCOT wholesale power market in Texas and impose an obligation on ERCOT participants under the CEA [Commodity Exchange Act] that has never before…
June 23, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has agreed on an approach to examine the reliability standard in the ERCOT market.
June 23, 2014
The Public Utility Commission of Texas denied a petition to eliminate or otherwise modify the small-fish-swim-free exemption under Subst. R. §25.504(c).
June 16, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a memo in advance of the Commission's June 20 open meeting concerning next steps in the Commission's review of the reliability standard.
June 13, 2014
The New York State Public Service Commission announced that it has given its regulatory approval to repower the Dunkirk power plant, owned by NRG Energy, under a $140 million agreement between National Grid and NRG.
June 10, 2014
Granting El Paso Electric Company a certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN) for two new, gas-fired, combustion turbine generation units would have no effect on retail competition in EPE's service area, a Texas ALJ would rule in a proposal for decision.
June 6, 2014
PJM has received a request for confidential information from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio regarding the 2017/2018 Reliability Pricing Model BRA.
June 4, 2014
PJM has received a request for confidential information from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities: specifically, offer data from the latest RPM Base Residual Auction.
June 3, 2014
DTE Electric (Detroit Edison) issued a Request for Proposal to solicit bids for the company to acquire an operational natural gas simple and/or combined cycle generating plant.
June 2, 2014
FERC approved, without modification, ISO New England's proposal to introduce a sloped demand curve into its forward capacity market, effective for auction for the 2018-19 delivery year.
June 2, 2014
ISO New England's current capacity market design, "fails to provide adequate incentives for resource performance, thereby threatening reliable operation of the system and forcing consumers to pay for capacity without receiving commensurate reliability benefits," FERC conceded in an order Friday.
May 30, 2014
Public Utility Commission of Texas Chair Donna Nelson filed a memo in advance of today's open meeting concerning issues related to prospective transmission system upgrades, ancillary services, and the transmission planning process related to renewable resources, as well as problems that have arisen…
May 30, 2014
NRG Energy and Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed for Commission approval of an amended voluntary mitigation plan that specifies offering practices that NRG can use when offering its generation resources into the ERCOT real-time and day-ahead energy and ancillary service…
May 28, 2014
The Retail Energy Supply Association has slammed a petition from Duke Energy to recover from PJM load about $10 million in unrecovered costs associated with procuring fuel for potential dispatch during January's cold weather.
