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April 22, 2013
Granting a complaint from demand response providers, FERC rejected, on procedural grounds, new policies instituted by PJM applicable to demand response offers in the capacity market.
April 22, 2013
More Texas retail electric providers are offering customers demand response solutions in light of higher ERCOT price caps, David Roylance, Vice President of The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA) and Principal at Prism Energy Solutions, told EnergyChoiceMatters.com in an interview.
April 19, 2013
NY Acts on Energy Highway Items, Meant to Reduce Congestion
April 19, 2013
The New York State Public Service Commission has approved the construction and operation of the Champlain Hudson Power Express Project, a 1,000 megawatt (MW) transmission line stretching 330 miles from the Canadian border to Astoria, Queens, primarily through Lake Champlain and the Hudson River.
April 17, 2013
The Maryland PSC has struck a "regulatory out" clause from a Contract for Differences among the utilities and CPV Maryland LLC to enable the construction of a 661 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle facility in Charles County with an in-service date of June 1, 2015.
April 16, 2013
A filing by Ohio Power Company at FERC is meant to preserve a favorable revenue stream for AEP to the extent an Ohio court overturns a decision by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Industrial Energy Users-Ohio charged in a FERC filing.
April 10, 2013
Listening to Pat Wood's keynote at the spring Gulf Coast Power Association conference, the inescapable conclusion is that electric restructuring in Texas has failed.
April 8, 2013
The Midwest ISO has posted results from the first capacity auction under its revised Module E resource adequacy construct.
April 4, 2013
An independent analysis prepared for the Public Utility Commission of Texas indicates that the benefits to Texas customers from Entergy Texas, Inc. (ETI) joining the Midwest ISO are at risk if certain PPAs with other Entergy operating companies are terminated upon MISO membership, as is being sought…
April 4, 2013
Panda Power Funds has completed financing on a 758 megawatt expansion of its natural gas-fueled, combined-cycle power plant currently under construction in Temple, Texas.
April 4, 2013
As Texas considers resource adequacy, and specifically demand response, it should view skeptically claims, especially from capacity owners, that the fastest and most effective way to develop demand response resources is to introduce a centralized capacity market.
April 3, 2013
The New York ISO's latest auction for strip capacity prices for the summer of 2013 resulted in higher capacity prices.
April 1, 2013
The New York ISO has filed at FERC tariff modifications to better align the credit requirements for imports to, exports from, and wheels through (External Transactions) the New York Control Area with the associated market risk.
April 1, 2013
Just as it has done in the Northeast, FERC is setting up the California market for FERC's preferred resource adequacy construct, ordering a technical conference to "collectively" pursue solutions to "reliability," but in reality meaning generation adequacy.
March 29, 2013
Yesterday, Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson said that when reviewing appropriate generator offer behavior under the Commission's rules, marginal cost should be interpreted as long-run marginal costs, rather than short-run marginal costs.
March 28, 2013
Donna Nelson, Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, has proposed that the Commission provide stakeholders with a formal opportunity to comment on the Interim Solution B+ proposal to improve scarcity pricing, and the related ERCOT backcast results, followed by a workshop "this summer."
March 26, 2013
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Board of Directors at its March meeting approved a pilot for the upcoming summer that will expand its options to reduce electric use during peak summer conditions when demand is high and power supplies are tight.
March 22, 2013
ERCOT has issued a final determination of Reliability Must-Run (RMR) status for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Ferguson Power Plant G1 (FERGUS_FERGUSG1)
March 22, 2013
ERCOT has filed its backcast analysis of market prices had the Interim Solution B+ approach to improve the scarcity pricing mechanism been in place in 2011-12.
March 22, 2013
A new report from The Brattle Group confirms that an energy-only market is sustainable from a resource adequacy perspective.
March 20, 2013
The Massachusetts DPU has declined to order the electric distribution utilities to enter long-term contracts at this time, despite finding a need for new capacity in the NEMA/Boston zone in the next 10 years absent the construction of Footprint Power's 674 MW generating plant.
March 18, 2013
Carthage Energy, LLC has provided notice to the New York PSC withdrawing its earlier intent retire the Carthage Energy electric generation facility.
March 7, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. have filed a settlement for approval of a new Voluntary Mitigation Plan (VMP).
March 5, 2013
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. has, "refused to discharge its duties" to proactively prevent or reactively remedy anti-competitive conduct arising due to concentration of market power through incumbency, affiliation or otherwise, Industrial Energy Users-Ohio charged in comments filed in Ohio's retail…
March 4, 2013
The amount of electricity available to serve demand in ERCOT will be tight again this summer, according to an analysis released by ERCOT
