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October 21, 2011
The California PUC opened Rulemaking 11-10-023 to establish local resource adequacy (RA) procurement obligations, and make other refinements to the RA program, for the 2013 compliance year.
October 18, 2011
Fresh off scoring a victory which will needlessly add millions to retail electric rates, generators are now seeking to lighten their own credit burden under FERC's RTO credit "reform" order (ER11-3972 et. al.).
October 18, 2011
EnergyConnect, Inc., and EnerNOC, Inc., have asked FERC to make retail suppliers and other load serving entities pay for capacity not needed due to Price Responsive Demand (PRD) in PJM, by requiring PJM to provide PRD capacity credits to the PRD providers, rather than the LSEs who are obligated to…
October 17, 2011
The Midwest ISO filed an answer at FERC attempting to justify its capacity cost allocation method for states with retail choice, but its arguments were strained or simply puzzling.
October 17, 2011
Imposing Non-Spinning Reserve Service (NSRS) price floors in ERCOT under the "compromise" proposal would have increased average prices by $46.49/MWh in 2011, if the low system offer cap [LCAP] were not applied, the Texas Industrial Energy Consumers said in comments to the PUCT.
October 14, 2011
FERC's Order 697, which authorizes wholesale sellers to apply for market-based rate authority, does not violate the Federal Power Act, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held yesterday in denying consolidated petitions from several parties including the Montana Consumer Counsel…
October 13, 2011
Although PUCT Chairman Donna Nelson had not been entertaining adoption of a capacity market in ERCOT, despite the constant drumbeat from some asset owners for such a design, Nelson said that recent comments from a major PJM generation owner has put the nail in the coffin for her appetite for a…
October 13, 2011
NRG Energy has asked the Maryland PSC to remove the geographic limitation in the PSC's current RFP for 1,500 MW of new gas-fired capacity.
October 12, 2011
Constellation Energy and Exelon have agreed, under a settlement with the PJM independent market monitor, to not sell three units to be divested as part of their planned merger to competitors previously identified as owning three percent or more of the installed capacity in the overall PJM market, in…
October 11, 2011
Incumbent generators in New Jersey, "don't want competition," New Jersey BPU President Lee Solomon said in opening a National Energy Marketers Association conference on the New Jersey market this morning.
October 10, 2011
Chain Lakes Power to Relinquish REP Certificate
October 10, 2011
Pepco and Delmarva Power have informed the Maryland PSC that they may petition for reconsideration of PSC's decision to issue an RFP for up to 1,500 MW of new generation under long-term contracts, stating that the PSC should consider utility-built generation to meet any identified capacity needs.
October 7, 2011
Stop us if you've heard this before: "A seemingly inevitable shake-out in ERCOT's retail power market is slowly but surely underway as smaller players begin showing signs that operations are untenable."
October 5, 2011
A filing from the Midwest ISO Transmission Owners which purports to identify replacement suppliers for CMS Energy Resource Management Company load, for purposes of assigning Seams Elimination Charge Adjustment costs after FERC ruled that CMS was not responsible for such load, "is simply inadequate…
October 4, 2011
Parties expecting PJM to file tariff language yesterday for a New Entry Price Adjustment in the Reliability Pricing Model received only a status report, as PJM said it requires more time to address NEPA issues and build consensus (ER11-2875).
October 4, 2011
Ameren Energy Resources Company announced this morning that its Meredosia and Hutsonville merchant generation plants will cease operating by the end of 2011.
October 4, 2011
Combined cycle gas turbine generation built pursuant to a Maryland RFP would be expected to clear the Reliability Pricing Model auction even under the Minimum Offer Price Rule, two analysts at UBS Securities said in a note to clients.
September 30, 2011
The issuance of an RFP for new generation, "is in the best interest of Maryland ratepayers and may promote the long-term electric reliability of the State," the Maryland PSC concluded yesterday in an order issuing an RFP for up to 1,500 MW (Case 9214).
September 29, 2011
The New York PSC issued a declaratory ruling yesterday finding that generators are required to obtain the Commission's consent, pursuant to Public Service Law (PSL) §70, to discontinue blackstart service (11-E-0423).
September 26, 2011
PJM has submitted to FERC a proposal to allow load serving entities, as well as other providers, to commit Price Responsive Demand (PRD) to PJM, with such commitments reducing the capacity obligation sourced through the Reliability Pricing Model auction.
September 22, 2011
"The short term capacity market doesn't work," Keith Trent, Group Executive and President of Commercial Businesses for Duke Energy, observed during the Ohio Governor's 21st Century Energy & Economic Summit yesterday.
September 22, 2011
Exelon and Calpine have submitted to ERCOT Nodal Protocol Revision Request 416, Removal of the Reliability Unit Commitment (RUC) Clawback Charge for Resources Other than Reliability Must-Run Units.
September 20, 2011
Bangor Hydro-Electric informed the Maine PUC that it is, "exploring alternatives regarding the disposal of the energy," from the Rollins Wind Project, after FERC denied BHE's sought waiver to allow BHE transmission function employees to engage in ministerial actions needed to make sales of the…
September 16, 2011
FERC yesterday ordered the RTOs to engage in ongoing compliance reviews of market participants' risk management policies, further expanding the breadth of RTOs' power beyond their originally intended functions.
September 16, 2011
The treatment of load forecasting under the Midwest ISO's proposed revisions to its capacity mechanism, "places non-EDC LSEs in a competitively disadvantageous position that makes the tariff provisions unjust, unreasonable and unduly discriminatory," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in a…
