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January 13, 2013
Apparently in the vein of never letting a crisis go to waste, a federally-sanctioned, non-representative, quasi-government agency has inserted itself into the ERCOT resource adequacy debate, requesting, since it has no authority to demand, that ERCOT provide it with certain information, but with the…
January 11, 2013
Entergy's explanations regarding power purchase agreements Entergy intends to modify at FERC, to allow the PPAs to terminate upon MISO membership, are, "almost to the point of being unbelievable," Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson said during yesterday's open meeting.
January 8, 2013
Williams Partners L.P. announced that its Transco pipeline has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to provide another natural gas delivery point from its Transco pipeline to New York City.
January 8, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed an updated estimate of the installed generating capacity in ERCOT.
January 4, 2013
FERC Approves Cleveland Locational Deliverability Area
January 4, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have recommended that the Commission hold a workshop on inputs to the ERCOT Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR) Report, and have filed a list of potential questions related to certain elements.
January 3, 2013
Southern California Edison has petitioned the California PUC to recover costs of the 45 MW McGrath Peaker Generating Station, with such recovery applying to all "benefiting" customers, not just bundled service customers.
January 3, 2013
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. has filed with the PUCT its December 2012 Long-Term Assessment Report
January 2, 2013
Carthage Energy, LLC has provided notice to the New York PSC that it intends to discontinue operation and retire the Carthage Energy electric generation facility unit effective April 1, 2013.
December 28, 2012
FERC erred in requiring the Midwest ISO to include in its tariff a mechanism allowing the Provider of Last Resort to recover, through the MISO tariff, "administrative" costs of procuring so-called "gap" capacity -- demand that is unserved due to load switching among load serving entities, MISO said…
December 28, 2012
Retail suppliers in the Midwest ISO contesting their assigned demand forecasts, and the capacity obligations inherent in such forecasts, will be subject to the MISO alternate dispute resolution process, a process which MISO concedes is, "neither rapid nor free of costs."
December 27, 2012
Bangor Hydro-Electric Company has filed at the Maine PUC to retire and remove from service its Medway #1, #2, #3, and #4 diesel generating units, as well as its Young's Corner #2 and #3 diesel generating units.
December 26, 2012
A proposed decision from the California PUC would allow Southern California Edison to procure nearly 1,800 MW in local capacity requirements, with such procurement eligible for cost allocation mechanism (CAM) treatment. The draft order would also decline to make any changes in the CAM, such as those…
December 26, 2012
Entergy Texas, Inc.'s intention to file at FERC to change the termination language of certain unit purchased power agreements (PPAs) between Entergy Texas, Inc. (ETI) and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC (EGSL) may change the net costs and benefits of ETI joining MISO, and the finding that MISO…
December 21, 2012
EDF Trading and Raven Power Marketing, a subsidiary of Raven Power Holdings LLC, have signed an Energy Management Agreement covering three Maryland coal plants recently acquired by Raven Power Holdings LLC from Exelon.
December 19, 2012
An initial decision from a FERC ALJ would deny a proposal from the Midwest ISO and International Transmission Company (Joint Applicants) to recover from load in PJM and the New York ISO certain costs associated with Phase Angle Regulating transformers (PARs) located at Bunce Creek on the…
December 14, 2012
A report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and the American Public Power Association (APPA) found, "a possible $12 billion excess payment from consumers to generating companies that do not face genuine market competition" for 2011 as a result of wholesale electric restructuring, as…
December 14, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas directed Staff to develop a strawman concerning the elements that should be contained in ERCOT's Capacity, Demand and Reserves report, and other design inputs of the report.
December 11, 2012
The Texas Coalition for Affordable Power has issued an update to its review of the Texas deregulated electric market, and warned that a capacity market would, "layer additional costs onto energy bills."
December 10, 2012
ERCOT this morning released its updated Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR) report which shows healthier reserve margins in future years beyond 2013.
December 10, 2012
PJM has submitted a filing at FERC to reflect the permanent termination of Bridge Energy Traders and JD Renewable Energy, L.L.C. as PJM members due to defaults.
December 10, 2012
Revisions to the price floor in PJM's Reliability Pricing Model capacity market filed with FERC on Friday (see prior story) , "restrict[] the freedom with which prices are established by a competitive market," the Maryland PSC said in a statement.
December 3, 2012
The previously reported Reliability Contingency Plan ordered by the New York PSC to be developed by Consolidated Edison and other parties shall include the form of Request for Proposals (RFPs) that would be issued to procure needed resources to address system reliability needs by the summer of 2016…
December 3, 2012
A power supply agreement (PSA) between Ohio Power Company and affiliate AEP Generation Resources Inc., meant to serve Standard Service Offer load for the period between the corporate separation of Ohio Power's generating assets and the start of fully auction-based SSO supply, could result in the…
November 28, 2012
Implementation of a revised capacity market in the Midwest ISO continues to get more complex for competitive retail suppliers as FERC ordered the Midwest ISO to propose a mechanism to allow Providers of Last Resort, which are allocated any capacity obligations not accounted for in individual LSE…
