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October 19, 2010
Constellation Energy has protested the Seams Elimination Charge Adjustment compliance filing (ER10-2283 et. al.) of the PJM transmission owners due to establishment in the compliance filing of SECA sub-zones in the AEP-East zone for "Wolfhills" and "Bristol, Wolfhills" that, "neither appear to have…
October 13, 2010
Trans-Elect, with sponsors Good Energies, Google, and Marubeni Corporation, is pursuing the development of a 6,000 MW undersea transmission cable that would link Hampton Roads, Virginia with New Jersey, with a connection to the on-shore transmission system in Delaware as well.
October 13, 2010
FERC accepted tariff revisions from the New York ISO that provide for the mitigation of generators in the Rest-of-State region that can exercise market power when they are committed or dispatched to maintain system reliability, which is substantially similar to the mitigation approved for three…
October 5, 2010
Several stakeholders urged the PUCT not to adjust the design of the ERCOT System Administration Fee (SAF) ahead of potential action by the legislature in the 2011 session in response to the Sunset Commission report, while TXU Energy said that the current mechanism for charging the fee appropriately…
October 4, 2010
The California ISO, several California generators, and the state's major investor-owned utilities have filed a settlement at FERC governing the allocation of payments required of market participants to cover defaults in the CAISO market. Several municipal utilities as well as FERC Staff have…
October 4, 2010
PJM has filed tariff changes at FERC to eliminate from the PJM marginal loss calculation model all lower voltage facilities that PJM does not control or operate for congestion or reliability, as well as generator step-up transformers ("GSU") that are metered on the "high side" that the Market Seller…
October 1, 2010
Several competitive generators and their trade associations sought rehearing of FERC's recent station power order in Docket EL04-130 et. al., claiming that FERC misinterpreted an appeals court decision remanding a station power issue to FERC, and, "pull[ed] the rug out from under market participants…
October 1, 2010
A decision by Entergy and Cleco Power to join the Southwest Power Pool RTO, "will yield significant economic benefits to the collective SPP/Entergy region," according to a cost-benefit analysis conducted by Charles River Associates and Resero Consulting, but the net benefits to the individual…
September 29, 2010
Texas legislators have to understand the "criticality of the reserve margin," Barbara Clemenhagen, Vice President of Commercial & External Relations for Topaz Power Group, told a record number of attendees at the Gulf Coast Power Association's annual fall meeting in Austin yesterday.
September 29, 2010
The ERCOT market should expect that some retail electric providers will default in 2011 as a result of mismanaging their commercial operations in the nodal market, Chris Brewster, Partner at Lloyd Gosselink, said during a panel discussion on the nodal market at the Gulf Coast Power Association's…
September 28, 2010
New York State Electric & Gas Corporation informed FERC of several considerations in favor of action on a petition relating to NYSEG and Niagara Mohawk metering errors which prompted a partial settlement which has been sitting at the Commission for about a year, in Docket EL09-26. NYSEG stopped…
September 28, 2010
AEP Energy Partners has submitted Nodal Protocol Revision Request 281 to eliminate the requirement that Qualified Scheduling Entities representing Wind-powered Generation Resources (WGRs) must provide a 7-day forecast in their Current Operating Plan (COP).
September 28, 2010
The New York ISO has filed at FERC proposed tariff revisions to address the "unintentional consequences" -- specifically over-mitigation -- present under previously approved mitigation rules designed to guard against the exercise of buyer-side market power in the In-City ICAP markets.
