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February 25, 2013
Retail suppliers have raised concerns with the proposed method of cost recovery for any generation procured to replace the loss of the Indian Point capacity, if the New York nuclear plant is retired.
February 22, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and Calpine Corporation have filed for approval of a settlement agreement establishing a Voluntary Mitigation Plan (VMP) for Calpine, which specifies offering practices that Calpine may use when offering its generation resources into the ERCOT…
February 21, 2013
Investment, and by implication, innovation, cannot occur in competitive retail energy markets characterized by "transient customers," a competitive generator shockingly told the Public Utility Commission of Texas, in comments urging the PUCT to not rely on demand response for long-term resource…
February 19, 2013
ERCOT has issued an initial determination concerning the Notification of Suspension of Operations for the Lower Colorado River Authority's Ferguson unit FERGUS_FERGUSG1.
February 14, 2013
ERCOT Files Backcast of Operating Reserve Demand Curve Proposal
February 14, 2013
A final decision from the California PUC allows Southern California Edison to procure over 2,000 MW of electric capacity to meet local capacity requirements, with the procurement eligible for cost allocation mechanism (CAM) treatment. The PUC also declined to make any changes in the CAM, such as…
February 13, 2013
FERC largely accepted a compliance filing from ISO New England concerning implementation of offer floors in the Forward Capacity Market, and denied a related complaint from state regulators concerning the offer floors.
February 13, 2013
PacifiCorp and the California Independent System Operator Corporation have released a memorandum of understanding that commits the two largest western U.S. grid operators to work toward creating a real-time energy imbalance market (EIM) by October of 2014.
February 13, 2013
Introducing a capacity market into ERCOT would subject customers to an unavoidable "tax," an industry panelist said yesterday at an Infocast conference.
February 13, 2013
Two reports from think tanks on opposite ends of the political spectrum have both reached the inescapable conclusion that a capacity market in ERCOT would raise customer rates, without addressing any specific causes of the current resource adequacy concerns.
February 13, 2013
An updated analysis of ERCOT resource adequacy from Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson shows that ERCOT is not projected to fall below the 13.75% reserve margin until after 2018.
February 11, 2013
The New York ISO has filed tariff changes at FERC to modify the calculation of Locational Based Marginal Pricing (LBMPs) during periods of scarcity, to allow for pricing to reflect scarcity conditions on a localized basis.
February 11, 2013
FERC has set for hearing and settlement judge procedures, suspending for the maximum five-month period, a proposed formula rate to establish the capacity rate charged to competitive service providers at Appalachian Power Company (AEP) in Virginia.
February 7, 2013
The NEMA/Boston zone diverged to a higher capacity price than the rest of ISO New England in the Forward Capacity Auction for the 2016/17 delivery year.
February 7, 2013
Pursuant to PUCT Rule, ERCOT is requesting data from Load-Serving Entities related to Dynamic Pricing and Demand Response capabilities of their customers.
February 6, 2013
A "settlement" among certain stakeholders, notably PJM and capacity owners, to revise the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) in PJM's capacity market, such that the MOPR applies to a larger set of capacity offers, is "deficient," a delegated FERC order found yesterday.
February 1, 2013
FERC accepted without modification a contented settlement to establish new Cost of New Entry (CONE) values for the PJM capacity market, to take effect for the May 2013 base residual auction.
January 29, 2013
Tenaska and the Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) announced Monday that they have entered into a development and purchase agreement for construction of a proposed 800-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fueled electric generating station in Brownsville, Texas.
January 28, 2013
ERCOT has received Notification of Suspension of Operations for the following Generation Resource:
January 25, 2013
Texas Public Utility Commissioners agreed yesterday that ERCOT should study the proposed Interim Solution B to improve scarcity pricing by utilizing reserve demand curves.
January 23, 2013
ERCOT has filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas two potential interim solutions to improve scarcity pricing by utilizing reserve demand curves.
January 18, 2013
FERC Issues Policy Statement on Allocation of Merchant Transmission Capacity
January 18, 2013
The New York State Public Service Commission yesterday instituted a proceeding, "to examine repowering alternatives to utility power plant reinforcements," and directed National Grid and New York State Electric and Gas Corporation (NYSEG) to work with generation owners to evaluate repowering of two…
January 17, 2013
PJM Interconnection and the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) have successfully begun jointly managing transmission limits that occur near the "seams" between their regions.
January 17, 2013
Linden VFT, LLC has filed a complaint at FERC seeking an order directing Brookfield Energy Marketing, LP and Cargill Power Markets, LLC to pay Linden VFT for certain PJM costs that Linden argues are allowed to be passed-through to the marketers under certain Transmission Scheduling Rights Purchase…
