March 17, 2016
The National Energy Marketers Association will convene its 19th Annual National Energy Restructuring Conference April 13 through April 15, 2016 in Washington, DC.
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May 15, 2015
The District of Columbia PSC has suspended its review of potential dynamic pricing programs, including potentially making SOS a dynamic pricing program (or adding an optional SOS dynamic pricing rate), citing the uncertainty regarding what compensation, if any, will be available in the wholesale…
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October 23, 2014
The legal reasoning used by FirstEnergy in a FERC complaint that seeks to eliminate demand response from participation in the capacity market would also mean that FERC lacks jurisdiction to create and compel participation in capacity markets, the Pennsylvania PUC said in a protest of FirstEnergy's…
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October 21, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit has granted FERC a stay of the court's May decision which found FERC lacked jurisdiction to set compensation for demand response.
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September 23, 2014
In its comments to the New York PSC on a straw proposal in the Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding, Direct Energy offered several novel interpretations of the impact of a Court's order which vacated FERC Order 745, as the Court said that FERC lacked authority to set compensation for demand…
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September 18, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeal of the D.C. circuit has denied en banc rehearing of its earlier order striking down FERC Order 745, FERC's order which provided that demand response shall be paid full LMP.
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May 27, 2014
FirstEnergy Service Company filed a complaint at FERC requesting that the Commission issue an order requiring the removal of all portions of the PJM tariff allowing or requiring PJM to include demand response as suppliers to PJM's capacity markets, with a refund effective date of May 23, 2014
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May 27, 2014
An order initially being hailed by competitive generators concerning demand response should ultimately prove most beneficial to retail suppliers and consumers in reining in FERC's unchecked authority to issue regulations over anything allegedly "affecting" wholesale electric rates.
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April 4, 2012
Viridity Energy, Inc. has filed a complaint at FERC regarding the compensation provided to customers registering with one curtailment service provider (CSP) in PJM's capacity program, but who use a different CSP for energy and ancillary services (EL12-54).
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December 16, 2011
FERC generally denied rehearing requests regarding Order 745, which ordered demand response to be paid the full LMP under certain conditions, but did clarify circumstances in which the full LMP shall not be paid to demand resources.
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